Cinematherapy PTSD

This film is about soldiers returning from the Iraq war. It's a film shot in documentary style and authentically brings the war and the mental challenges of war home. Especially the grocery store scene.

R- Netflix


Ask Yourself:

- How did you feel when you observed the lawyers attitude and creative thought despite the wishes of his family and peers?

- How and where in your life could this attitude help you?

- How would this make you feel if you could change as dramatically as Mike Downey did?

-Would it help your self-esteem? How and why? Did this film inspire you to change your life or create new thought?

Please share and/or suggest a film re: PTSD. We'd love to hear from you.


Shutter Island

(2010) R

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his own troubling visions and by Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley). Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer and Max von Sydow co-star in director Martin Scorsese's plot twist-filled psychological thriller set on a Massachusetts island in 1954. Netflix.

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