Spoiler alert: This post is for anyone else who might wondering whether to watch. Don't read this if you haven't watched yet and don't Iike "spoilers."
I was afraid to watch, because I couldn't tell what it was going to show or if it would exceed my personal tolerance for certain kinds of images. We all have our own individual triggers and our own individual thresholds of what we can handle, and I know mine are lower than some. So sue me. It's how I'm wired.
I can tolerate a lot of things a lot better if I know what's coming, but when I see a phrase like "gut-wrenching," my panic reflexes kick in, rather like a phobia reaction. In this case, I read all the comments with my pulse racing, all sorts of terrifying images flying through my head. (The imagination has a "mind" of its own.)
Finally, my curiosity got the better of me. I looked at the image of a tight closeup of a woman's face and decided to start watching, ready to stop the video at any moment if necessary. Here is what I saw...
***SPOILERS START HERE***
To my relief, the only visuals, besides the woman talking at the beginning, are words on a black background, interspersed with completely black screens. Besides the woman talking, all you here is the beeping of an alarm. The video carries a powerful message, and the beeping of the alarm is hard to listen to, but easy to silence. (I had to turn off the sound myself, because it was freaking my cat out. 😄
But there are NO graphic images of any kind, and I had no trouble watching it. The video carries a powerful message, but the viewer is not confronted with any horrifying images.
As I said before, we all have our own individual triggers and thresholds. Some of us approach certain kinds of "scary" material with a lot of trepidation, because we know how such things affect us. If anyone reading this is trying to decide whether or not this video is "safe" for them to watch, I hope this information will be helpful.
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