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Could you suffer from post traumatic stress disorder from watching a movie?

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Dr. Pamela Pappas answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Not usually, but: If it impinges on existing past trauma you have experienced, you may have symptoms of hypervigilance, extreme anxiety, exaggerated startle, crying spells, etc. Some movies are very violent, and revive previous memories -- or are terrifying on their own. Having a trauma response be protracted from this -- rather than acute and gradually dissipating -- is rare though.

Answered 4/16/2016

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