snowbear Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 No mention of OCD, just a fabulous comparison with how OCD works and how to overcome it. Will put the rest in a spoiler alert in case you don't want to know yet what happens in the story. Spoiler Lyra and Will go to 'the land of the dead'. Basically hell. Everybody there is devoid of hope, tormented by miserable, fearful images and voices that taunt them with their failings and failures. Lyra realises the voices and images are just your thoughts - stand up to them and they leave you alone. One of 'the dead' talks of how they all wasted life, ignoring the joy of living to accomodate the belief they should act a certain way (equivalent of doing compulsions to such a degree you miss out on real life.) Lyra and Will offer them a possible way out of this hell. But the dead people want certainty, want to know what will happen. Sound familiar? Anyway...won't spoil the rest of the story. Just to say if we want to escape the misery and fear created by OCD then we too must accept uncertainty, ignore the thoughts which taunt us and bravely face our fears. I thought it was a brilliant analogy for OCD. Though I suspect the author was thinking in terms of more general life lessons. Anybody watched it yet? Agree? Disagree? Link to comment
Avo Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 We have just finished the first episode of series 3. I will look out for what you mention snowbear. hope to get to that episode in the next few days. Link to comment
snowbear Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 It's on iplayer. All episodes. I was hooked...couldn't wait for next Sunday. Link to comment
Lost_in_a_Dark_Maze Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 I was thinking along similar lines while watching. I also could not wait Link to comment
Gemma7 Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 I binged watched it too. Really enjoyed it but found the story truly devastating Link to comment
snowbear Posted February 6, 2023 Author Share Posted February 6, 2023 On 03/02/2023 at 10:56, Gemma7 said: I binged watched it too. Really enjoyed it but found the story truly devastating Was a bit sad at the end, wasn't it? Link to comment
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