Natasha0717
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Hey all,
Just wanted to know if you have any particular movies that you really like to watch, yet they get you thinking about health problems, symptoms, doctors, death, etc. I have two of them. I really like these movies, and I always watch them when they're on TV. You'd think I would change the channel on purpose, but nope, I watch them anyway...and then I get all freaked out.
Okay, the first one is Terms of Endearment. I enjoy the movie, I really do. Its funny and cheerful and will take you back to the 80's. Until Debra Winger innocently takes her little girl in for a flu shot (and she gets one too,) and that's when the doctor tells her he feels two lumps in her armpit. From there, it all goes downhill, and she dies a slow, cancerous death with her mother by her side the whole time. I always find her reaction a bit odd when the doctor tells her of these two suspicious lumps right at the beginning. He asks her how long they had been there, and her answer was something like, "I don't know." Almost looked as if she wanted to say, "And I don't care." :laugh: I would already be asking the doctor millions of questions!!
The second movie that always gets me is Steel Magnolias. Watching poor Julia Roberts struggle with diabetes, attempting to have a child even when the doctors (and her own mom) told her NOT to, because her body wouldn't be able to handle it. She has a cute little boy anyway, but then it turns out the pregnancy put too much stress on her kidneys, then she gets a kidney transplant (mom gives her one of hers,) all seems well, and then she slips into a coma....and eventually dies.
The "dying" part isn't what really gets me all worked up in these movies. It's more of the hospital scenes. And treatment scenes. And people-coming-to-visit scenes while the doctors are saying there isn't much hope for recovery. BUT...I will still watch these movies whenever they're on. I don't know why. Maybe to scare myself. Who knows. :huh:
Do you have any movies that you purposely avoid (or purposely watch, like I do) that seem to make your health fears/hypochondria even worse?

Just wanted to know if you have any particular movies that you really like to watch, yet they get you thinking about health problems, symptoms, doctors, death, etc. I have two of them. I really like these movies, and I always watch them when they're on TV. You'd think I would change the channel on purpose, but nope, I watch them anyway...and then I get all freaked out.
Okay, the first one is Terms of Endearment. I enjoy the movie, I really do. Its funny and cheerful and will take you back to the 80's. Until Debra Winger innocently takes her little girl in for a flu shot (and she gets one too,) and that's when the doctor tells her he feels two lumps in her armpit. From there, it all goes downhill, and she dies a slow, cancerous death with her mother by her side the whole time. I always find her reaction a bit odd when the doctor tells her of these two suspicious lumps right at the beginning. He asks her how long they had been there, and her answer was something like, "I don't know." Almost looked as if she wanted to say, "And I don't care." :laugh: I would already be asking the doctor millions of questions!!
The second movie that always gets me is Steel Magnolias. Watching poor Julia Roberts struggle with diabetes, attempting to have a child even when the doctors (and her own mom) told her NOT to, because her body wouldn't be able to handle it. She has a cute little boy anyway, but then it turns out the pregnancy put too much stress on her kidneys, then she gets a kidney transplant (mom gives her one of hers,) all seems well, and then she slips into a coma....and eventually dies.
The "dying" part isn't what really gets me all worked up in these movies. It's more of the hospital scenes. And treatment scenes. And people-coming-to-visit scenes while the doctors are saying there isn't much hope for recovery. BUT...I will still watch these movies whenever they're on. I don't know why. Maybe to scare myself. Who knows. :huh:
Do you have any movies that you purposely avoid (or purposely watch, like I do) that seem to make your health fears/hypochondria even worse?
