[ SECRET POST #1970 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1970 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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10. [SPOILERS for ASOIAF, Game of Thrones]



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13. [TRIGGER WARNING for gore/body horror]



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14. [TRIGGER WARNING for self-harm]



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15. [TRIGGER WARNING for misogyny, rape, racism]



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Comments

[zuppi.livejournal.com]

I found the depiction of her PTSD very much mirrored my own. I see her as probably having more chronic PTSD, rather than it stemming only from the Hunger Games. She struggled so hard since her father died, facing death at only 11 and scrambling since then to survive. To me the Hunger Games are the straw that broke the camel's back.

Which is how I feel about my own chronic PTSD. I managed to keep it mostly at bay for years (though looking back now, it's obvious thing weren't normal) but then there's just that one thing that breaks you. It might not even be as bad as everything else but it just gets too much to bear on top of everything else and things begin to fall apart.

Perhaps I'm identifying too much with Katniss (I was hardly fighting for my life in the same fashion, I was very ill) but I spent months sitting in a room, literally unable to do anything. Looking back, it seems like that was somebody else's life and I don't understand how it even happened but I, personally, do see her PTSD as very like my own and therefore incredibly believable.

[fierceawakening.livejournal.com]

That makes a lot of sense, actually. Especially what you say about repeated trauma. I had traumatic experiences as a child, and I do think I probably already had PTSD of some kind then, but it was when something else happened to me as a teen that I really found myself with an obvious mental health issue rather than "something feels off most of the time, I don't know, I'm just angry."

I can definitely see how losing her dad and caring for Prim and herself and battling starvation could put her on precarious ground even if she is tougher than her mother.

I don't like it particularly, personally, because I felt kind of like it made Katniss less of a character and more "a person with PTSD" -- I didn't feel her personality in it. I think that's the problem I had with the other victors, also. I liked them, and I liked their flaws, and I liked that they're sad and tired and not epic heroes. But I felt that there's a fine balance between showing that and making the characters less likeable/unlikeable, and I don't really feel Suzanne pulled it off well.

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To zupi and fierceawakening: I would be very careful trying to equate your experiences of having severe illnesses and sporadic traumatic experiences, with something like deaths of parents, poverty, and threat of constant death. Your experiences may not have sparked the same kinds of personality shifts that other triggers may incite.

For some kinds of experiences, it feels like there literally is nothing left inside of you but that experience. Everything you were is gone, and nothing else can ever be added. So yeah, some experiences do kind of make you feel like you're without personality.

[zuppi.livejournal.com]

So yeah, some experiences do kind of make you feel like you're without personality.

Unfortunately, I do know what that's like. I never in any way implied that some experiences could not trigger such a loss of identity. I really don't know what in my comment could have conveyed that I thought that way. If so, I apologise.