stormpool
02-13-2006, 03:14 AM
Ok, I don't mean that what happens to me is wrong, just I wonder what actually happens and is it an anxiety attack...?
I'm a 23 year old male.. since I first watched hell raiser 4 at the age of 15 I first found that I had a horrible reaction to gore/blood and pain. I like to feel I get very involved when watching a film, and I get very emotional during sad scenes. When watching something bloody either in a film or in a surgical tv program I get a bit quesy...
The worst of the symptons as I recall...
I become giddy and feel nauseas
My vision becomes blurred and 'tingly?'
Everything goes fuzzy like a tv screen without reception except that it is very colourful.
I feel very cold but sweat prefusely
I haven't recently.. but the first time this occured at the age of 15 I passed out whilst trying to get fresh air at the house doorstep. I think I would pass out now if I continued to watch and absorb what is going on, in the film or tv program.
This range of symptons occured last night during final destination 3, and as it was only the first proper death scene in the film I thought that I shouldn't stick around for the other 5.... and so left early.
During Sin City, seeing the women's heads on the wall like trophies, just imagining the freak eat those women set me off.
During ghost ship i didn't mind it when the guests got sliced in half with some wire... but i had problems when the lady had a hook into her back and lynched up..
Event horizon where the guy pushes he eyes into his sockets, another pulls his tongue out.. i paused this film 11 times to lie down - i had watched the first half of the film ok and wanted to find out what happened in the end.
there's probably a few more examples, it seems worse at a cinema i think. Maybe because I feel more emmersed in the film. Or that even if I close my eyes and try to imagine something else.. the noise can still be heard clearly.
I have even managed to recreate this feeling, just by thinking about gore and pain etc... it made me feel giddy and a bit sick. I did this out of curiosity, as a child I've been said to have an 'over-active imagination' and even now when I dream they seem so real.
So is this all caused from an anxiety attack? What are peoples comments about this... ?
Sorry if i rambled on :)
Thanks, Dan
I'm a 23 year old male.. since I first watched hell raiser 4 at the age of 15 I first found that I had a horrible reaction to gore/blood and pain. I like to feel I get very involved when watching a film, and I get very emotional during sad scenes. When watching something bloody either in a film or in a surgical tv program I get a bit quesy...
The worst of the symptons as I recall...
I become giddy and feel nauseas
My vision becomes blurred and 'tingly?'
Everything goes fuzzy like a tv screen without reception except that it is very colourful.
I feel very cold but sweat prefusely
I haven't recently.. but the first time this occured at the age of 15 I passed out whilst trying to get fresh air at the house doorstep. I think I would pass out now if I continued to watch and absorb what is going on, in the film or tv program.
This range of symptons occured last night during final destination 3, and as it was only the first proper death scene in the film I thought that I shouldn't stick around for the other 5.... and so left early.
During Sin City, seeing the women's heads on the wall like trophies, just imagining the freak eat those women set me off.
During ghost ship i didn't mind it when the guests got sliced in half with some wire... but i had problems when the lady had a hook into her back and lynched up..
Event horizon where the guy pushes he eyes into his sockets, another pulls his tongue out.. i paused this film 11 times to lie down - i had watched the first half of the film ok and wanted to find out what happened in the end.
there's probably a few more examples, it seems worse at a cinema i think. Maybe because I feel more emmersed in the film. Or that even if I close my eyes and try to imagine something else.. the noise can still be heard clearly.
I have even managed to recreate this feeling, just by thinking about gore and pain etc... it made me feel giddy and a bit sick. I did this out of curiosity, as a child I've been said to have an 'over-active imagination' and even now when I dream they seem so real.
So is this all caused from an anxiety attack? What are peoples comments about this... ?
Sorry if i rambled on :)
Thanks, Dan