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[the_rck]

Cordelia spent last night in her room. She had a hard time getting to sleep because, while she was visiting some friends down the street, they watched part of Watership Down. Parts of it, particularly the gassing of the old warren, scared and disturbed her. She came into our room about 10:30 and cried because she couldn't get those images out of her head.

The kids she was visiting are 10, 9 and 6 years old. Apparently stuff like this is fine for them. (Their father picked out the movie.) Cordelia's simply very sensitive to the scary stuff and has a strong imagination-- One of her difficulties was that she could imagine something like that happening to her and the people she loves.

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[panisdead]

Do you think Cordelia would be interested in something like EFT tapping? I ask because I use it for exactly this purpose--when I've read or watched something that's disturbing for me and I can't stop thinking about it. I find it reduces the emotional intensity of the fear reaction I have.

EFT falls into the category of "things that possibly work because you believe they're going to work," but honestly I'm fine with that if it means I feel like I have some power over my problems.

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

Poor Cordelia. That movie is really scary, and the gassing of the old warren frightened me as a child, too. I wonder if the other kids were putting on brave faces, but were scared inside. :(

[the_rck]

It's hard to tell how the other kids felt. I don't know them really well. I would never have thought that movie a good pick for a group including a six year old.

I do know that some kids just shrug off this sort of stuff. They don't think about it really happening. It seems to vary a lot from kid to kid. Cordelia will likely never be a fan of horror movies.