Recently, For All Mankind, Season 1, the episode where the kids gets hit by a car and is in the hospital with a brain bleed. My son was in the hospital with a brain bleed right after his birthday and spent months in the hospital recovering. This episode hit real close to home.
I had to take a break half way through the episode and didn’t finish it until 2 weeks later.
This, indeed, strikes too close to home. Hope he’s alright now. Can’t even imagine what I could do in the same situation, and being reminded of it with a casual media, gosh.
La La Land. I had just been unexpectedly dumped by my anchor partner a few days earlier. Crashed at another partners place and did a bunch of mushrooms, they put the movie on without thinking just trying to fill the time to keep me distracted. The movie about two people having a very sweet relationship then breaking up and not getting back together again was maybe a poor choice lol. We had to stop it part way through so I could ground myself but after a while I did end up pulling it together enough to finish the movie (with some crying breaks here and there). 10/10, would mushroom and watch again. Helped me process tbh, after I knew what I was getting into, very emotionally draining on me though.
Never tried shrooms yet, but had a similar experience with Amelie. Just after the break up I held myself okay, like a functional adult, but when there was a scene where Amelie felt like she’s imagining things and he’d never come for her, I teared the hell out of me, nearly vomited my guts out from the sudden strike of sadness. Doubt I’d recomend it in an altered state of mind tho - the movie is already wicked. Yet, it’s very, very sweet. If you’d come around it, feel free to write me back about how it felt, or maybe do a post here on the fediverse.
Just read the plot of that movie. Don’t feel like any words I can produce would make you feel better about it. It’s just… I hope you are now in a better place and have something to rewrite these memories over.