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Post-traumatic stress disorder has been on psychiatry's books for just 23 years, and before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, no one ever entertained the possibility that watching disturbing images of trauma on TV could give rise to the disorder.
The notion remains controversial, but new research suggests that PTSD might indeed be transmitted over the airwaves. The study finds that those who spent more than six hours a day watching media coverage of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath suffered more powerful stress reactions than did people who were directly involved but watched less news coverage of the events.
UNLESS the Taliban started calling you and threatening you and your family of more of the same....odd stuff starts happening in your life etc.
"Watching" something on TV won't do it alone. You need some direct connection to real life to get to ya.
Watch a movie about a serial killer who prays upon single women and THEN go out on a date with a nutcase who is clearly mentally insane and starts stalking you and stuff.....
That^ might do it.....
Watching "Days Of Our Lives" and "Oprah" won't.......
People who already have PTSD from a past life and death experience can have a reoccurring PTSD panic attack triggered by watching things on TV though.
Saving Private Ryan, Platoon and a few other flicks proved that.
This is true. And just for the sake of sharing oddities with people who are interested in such things, I was in the World Trade Center on 9/11, got out fairly early (just after the second plane hit the other building) and watched from a few blocks away, and more than once I've watched footage of the day with the towers burning and find myself with my hand covering my nose because I can smell it.
I think watching news and reading news on websites makes me sick. Seeing all of the horrible things happening in the world, and constantly reading and hearing about it is unhealthy.
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Well 9/11 coverage did give me PTSD like symptoms, every time a plane flies over my house (which is daily)I become terrified, heart racing, sometimes I run into a closet or hide because of the fear of it crashing into my house
Its funny that you mention this. I use to be a Flight Attendant several years ago. I struggled through the training, but go on with the job and was well liked and caught on fine. I was flipping through YouTube and watched a the first episode of Frontier's "Flight Attendant School". One episode turned into two..turned into the whole season! By the third episode I felt sick so my stomach and dizzy. It brought back memories. Even though I watched it on tv, it felt as if I was in the classroom with them!
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