Run Rabbit, Run - A Film Exploring PTSD

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety, uncontrollable thoughts about the event for even decades afterwards. It is different from trauma, in that to be defined as PTSD, the person must have felt extraordinary fear for their life or someone they care for, or witnessed or caused a similar event. The key elements that define PTSD are the person experiencing it felt powerless to stop the unfolding events, and somehow responsible (even though this is not often true). It is a recognised clinical diagnosis that requires integrated treatment to rewire the brain, of the distortion or glitch that the incident causes. This film aims to raise understanding - particularly for those who have never experienced this condition, to increase empathy and understanding towards those who have. Thank you for watching and sharing!

Run Rabbit! Run! A film, exploring PTSD from personal experience (navigating my survival in an unplanned night spent in The Zone, Phoenix Arizona) - created as part of my own healing process. It depicts the distortion of time, sound and somatic fear that I felt after the event, when back in safety. I have worked extensively with PTSD and trauma in my therapeutic practise. However this showed me that treating someone with it and understanding it within the body are too very different things. I have come to believe that the majority of cases of PTSD remain active despite EMDR and talk therapy combinations. This is a topic of high interest to me, which I am covering in my current art practise. For anyone suffering with, or supporting a person with PTSD, please contact me for assistance and further research (in my new art collection). Thanks for watching and sharing!