Neon Genesis Evangelion and My Trauma: A Personal Account

Yeah, "anything," unfortunately, because "the media" doesnt have personhood /:

There’s only so much the media can get away with before someone gets hurt

I've been traumatized by plenty of media, a lot of anime is hard hitting emotionally. You're not alone in that, watching devilman crybaby nearly caused a full manic episode in which I was wondering if I was the antichrist and hadn't realized it yet.

ToeKnee you GOTTA proofread before you hit "submit" when you use voice-to-text 🤣 I recognise these errors anywhere 💔🙃

It's q balancing act between exposure therapy and avoided. Sunshine you need to just avoid and put trama away in a box and come back to when you're stronger and risk a relapse or expose yourself up to the pain. Neither is palatable and it's sometimes feels like being stuck an unmovable object and unstoppable object colliding. But in most cases a avoiding triggers is better than closure People are self centered in nature and it's be dad be that people to will downplay ano there person's issues to the point of that person's be death then feel sorry for it and it usually take that effect to get sunshine to feel empathy. I think it's a combination between apathy, denial, skepticism and wishful thinking. Depression is an ugly thing and helps to tell yourself that it will get better even if you don't believe it and think of a time (preferably the most recent) and think "I beat you before, I'll beat you again" You should listen to Jenny Lawson (sometimes Jennifer) or The Bloggess (same person) she written by 3 books "let's pretend this never happened (A mostly true memoir) "Furiously Happy" funny book about horrible things. Broken (I'm the best possible way) At the very least you'll laugh your ass off; at best you'll gain some possible helpful insight. Well we can also has some books on depression (aka Wesley Crusher)

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Can relate. This post will probably get flagged, but feel free to DM me. I'm pretty heavily into it as well, and I was in a state of derralized dissociation for a few weeks after my first viewing. I couldnt even go on to watch the movies until I'd gotten some majority of my senses back. It's a very love-hate relationship, my mind and the show. But Ive found a lot of good I've taken from it, though that may be due to some other soiritual background and leanings I personally have which probably make my experience very subjective. Hang in there, remember that the creator suffers from heavy depression and the show took a violent twist in a new direction 2/3 of the way through because he began to address his mental health, which is why the plot which was building before seemed to just dissipate in place of the existentialist "paralysis by analysis" that literally left the plot standing in place as the budget literally ran out and the end turned into a drawn-out scene regarding ego death. There's so much to expand on regarding that one topic alone.

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