Re: To Err Is Human, To Dwell On It Is ADD

[Anonymous]

I have a hard time watching hostage or rape related movies or cop shows. I hate the helplessness I see of the victims. It puts me back in my childhood when I felt helpless at the hands of bullies. I was watching criminal minds and law and order and had to keep changing the channel because of the horror of it all. I only tuned into the end when they get the sadistic prick. I would watch movies like death Wish and other vigilante and cop stuff because I loved it when the little guy got back at all the bad guys. It was so cathartic. Makes me feel like I’m the one getting back at all the people that abused me. Of course I would never do that because I was always afraid of jail and what would happen to me there, and of course I was raised Catholic so that fear of hell always hung over me. I am currently undergoing treatment known as TIR. IT stands for Traumatic Incident Reduction. Also knwon as flooding it basically entails the shrink getting me to recount what happened and asking me how I felt about it over and over again. He said that the whole technique is so that the incident can move from the part of the brain that considers it immediate and traumatic to the part of the brain that considers it not too terribly important. I’ve had some success with it and intend to continue. Anyone here may want to ask your counselors about it.

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