Expectations were put on him THE MOMENT THEY TOLD HIM TO JOIN THEIR BAND FOR THE FESTIVAL. That is exactly when he would start showing signs and hesitation, even if he powered through it AT THAT TIME, until at this moment it became too much and overwhelmed him because it was too similar to his traumatic event. You absolute nincompoop.
There's a difference between "Come play with us" and "You're our guitarist" and you aren't the one with the trauma so you aren't meant to understand why "we'd love for you to play with us" isn't triggering and "We're glad your our guitarist" is.
That's my problem here. Sure, this can happen irl, the problem is making something realistic doesn't necessarily make it good for a story.
There is one hint tho.Except... No trauma was ever hinted from the very beginning of this story... This story didn't even have a psychological tag to begin with
if it getting dragged unnecessarily long, It might have a decline internationally but I highly doubt that will happen in Japan. Just look at Kaoru Hana or rent a girlfriend, they still sell a lot of copies despite all the bad-writings, dramas and unnecessary fillers. I believe Japanese people have a different taste in romcom compare to global.
Except no, it doesn't. Delayed-onset/delayed-expression PTSD still has at least minor signs of coping mechanisms leading up to the moment of breaking point; Things like tension in similar situations (or even just a constant low-grade tension at all times), sleep disturbances, or minor avoidances that often are ignored or get blamed on general stress for months (or even years) before intensifying. None of which were manifest here. He's not depicted as coping with anything, internally as well as externally. It was poorly executed.
It's NOT realistic. That's the point I've been hammering at this entire time.
The problem doesn't lie with him having trauma, or even with the sudeen onset of a post-traumatic response.
As someone who works in trauma research: No, it is not good. Y'all are killing me here.
Thank you so much. I really needed to see this comment. My psych focus is in trauma and chronic stress, so I have been losing my mind seeing so many people describe this as a realistic depiction of trauma.
That I don't know, I don't have the knowledge to tell if it's true or not, seem you are more knowlegeable about it. I can only talk about my experience and I found strange Kurose was willing to participate in something that was related to his trauma and have the chance of remembering it or living the same again, I wouldn't have gone near them in a million years even as nice as those people are. And if it was himself forcing it I think we would have seen signals as you said, is still a stressful situation.
You're conflating "triggered trauma response" with "delayed-onset PTSD". A trauma trigger, by definition, is an unexpected response to an external stimuli that leads to the physiological reaction.
Source: https://www.waldenu.edu/online-mast...seling/resource/understanding-trauma-triggers
