Sorry for re-posting but I guess this is actually the right place for this..
I'm so embarrassed but I couldn't help it. The trailer for a film called 'The Impossible' came on about one family's experience in the Tsunami that hit south west Asia on boxing day 2004.
Nearly seven years ago now, I was on a family holiday in Malaysia for Christmas and New Year. I was on the beach when the Tsunami hit and I grabbed my mum who was being pulled out. It has taken me a very long time, a lot of counselling and determination on my part to forget what I saw that day and stop having nightmares about it. The death and destruction were so horrific - I couldn't imagine anything worse if I tried.
The sounds, smells and feelings evoked by that minute or so long trailer have made me feel so raw, I can't stop crying or thinking about it and I'm petrified I'm going to have nightmares tonight.
I'm just so upset that something I've tried so hard to move on from and get past has been thrust upon me and all of a sudden I'm a nervous wreck who can't control my tears. What the hell do I do now? Am I just back to the beginning, am I going to have to learn to forget it all again. I literally have a flash screen running in the back of my head with everything I saw and it won't go away.
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I cried in the Cinema tonight...
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blondiedollface · 15/12/2012 09:53
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