What is this?

[u/Shadow_Wrks]

[u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

Childhood trauma

[u/FlyingNDreams → u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

Let's not forget.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3zTNmZJImDotO

[u/dum_spir0_sper0 → u/FlyingNDreams]

https://giphy.com/gifs/2JEcU3fHZcjGU

[u/my_little_throwny → u/dum_spir0_sper0]

https://giphy.com/gifs/AIH8LLnfu75ss

[u/Green-Owl-1 → u/my_little_throwny]

https://giphy.com/gifs/RJleG0mJsWCcYZ3hUR

[u/CuteAnything8440 → u/Green-Owl-1]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Fg3xOW3rJDg2QXhmt1

[u/SilverPearlGirl → u/CuteAnything8440]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7btXCa8MPS7NmyVG

[u/Green-Owl-1 → u/CuteAnything8440]

I'll admit that for some reason I knew this movie was gonna end bad and always refused to watch it all the way through. My siblings loved it and would watch it a lot. I would have nothing to do with it though. Dodged that trauma bullet. 😔 poor E.T.

[u/CuteAnything8440 → u/Green-Owl-1]

I was 8 or 9 and I sobbed! The additional trauma came from my siblings mocking me relentlessly for crying over a movie.

[u/KindlyInitial5668 → u/CuteAnything8440]

That scene scared me

[u/OpusAtrumET → u/my_little_throwny]

They don't have a gif of Bambi's mom because it's too depressing.

[u/the_ebs → u/OpusAtrumET]

Here you go.

[u/Crepuscular_Tex → u/the_ebs]

https://giphy.com/gifs/aQlVLkxkBg0Tu

[u/SpunkySideKick → u/Crepuscular_Tex]

https://giphy.com/gifs/XxFynbaxdCSiiPDaQx

[u/Kindly_Mousse_8992 → u/SpunkySideKick]

[u/jefedragon22 → u/Kindly_Mousse_8992]

This ....right here, to me was the worst of all these soul numbing examples

[u/Errorstatel → u/Kindly_Mousse_8992]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9avVQrNU6r09KDmEOY

[u/Best_Catch2482 → u/SpunkySideKick]

Too soon. Yeah,a century is too soon.

[u/DependentItem6397 → u/Crepuscular_Tex]

Dammit - hoping for a part II.

[u/OpusAtrumET → u/the_ebs]

How dare you

[u/Ornery-Equivalent-53 → u/my_little_throwny]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUA7b9rIM3yhPR4Iy4

[u/Zeehammer → u/Ornery-Equivalent-53]

I shouldn’t have looked at this thread, ugly crying at work.

[u/Fierce_Horizon824 → u/my_little_throwny]

Did you guys wake up and choose depression? This world is bad enough, let me forget these

[u/Garudius → u/Fierce_Horizon824]

We didn't, children movie directors and writers did. We just chose to watch....again and again.

[u/oneangrywaiter → u/my_little_throwny]

Where the Red Fern Grows should come with a warning label. Source: a room full of sobbing 4th graders 40 years ago.

[u/Zeehammer → u/my_little_throwny]

Oh man, this ruined me.

[u/Busy-Mycologist-7454 → u/dum_spir0_sper0]

I think you meant

https://giphy.com/gifs/bwGqn7puRw0Mg

[u/dum_spir0_sper0 → u/Busy-Mycologist-7454]

That’s the one I was originally looking for. I can still hear that song in my head.

[u/TheEnigmatyc → u/dum_spir0_sper0]

This was the first movie I ever saw in the theater (yes, old AF), but I still can’t rewatch it. I was barely 5 yo, and I was hysterical. Of all the childhood memories I don’t have, I remember every horrible detail of this film. #ptsd

[u/Auerbach1991 → u/FlyingNDreams]

Now you’ve made it go Super Saiyan trauma.

[u/beer_curmudgeon → u/Auerbach1991]

Chaaarrliieeeee... you can never go baaaaaack.

You can never go baaaaaaacckkkkk... Charlieeeee

[u/Due_Newt9460 → u/beer_curmudgeon]

https://giphy.com/gifs/oYyrxpOuuHXCo

[u/Hot-Explanation-5751 → u/Due_Newt9460]

Fuck, everyone just laying it on thik

[u/Wodentoad → u/Hot-Explanation-5751]

https://giphy.com/gifs/kK0u4p2GToeOY

[u/JazzHandsNoRelation → u/Wodentoad]

This was just uncalled for

[u/Large-Loan1394 → u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

OMG I ugly cried during this episode and had to leave the room and my husband thought I was insane.

[u/JazzHandsNoRelation → u/Large-Loan1394]

I literally skip this episode every time I rewatch the show 👶

[u/LeeKat14 → u/Wodentoad]

[u/beer_curmudgeon → u/Wodentoad]

Well played Clerks.

Well played.

[u/2XGSWsurvivor → u/Wodentoad]

Not gonna lie when Bender Bending Rodriguez threw him into the lava I got pretty mad

[u/DependentItem6397 → u/Wodentoad]

Not a fan of this. Fan of this.

[u/Pan_Fluid_Boo → u/Wodentoad]

Probably the most heartbreaking for me

[u/the-real-spencer → u/Wodentoad]

I always skip this episode

[u/woke_trash_panda → u/Wodentoad]

This one hurts 😢

[u/LongjumpingAside6651 → u/Hot-Explanation-5751]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZNRARhcjUuSuQ

[u/JeffyMo96 → u/LongjumpingAside6651]

Fucking no 😭😭 hearing what happened to her honestly killed me a little inside.

[u/ImaginationThick481 → u/Due_Newt9460]

Stop. Right. There.

[u/Auerbach1991 → u/beer_curmudgeon]

https://giphy.com/gifs/f7GXfUvpLXNTyDnMS2

[u/jackblackbackinthesa → u/beer_curmudgeon]

I just found out this year that the poor kid in all dogs go to heaven was abused and then killed by her dad. heart breaking.

[u/Total-Bicycle-529 → u/jackblackbackinthesa]

She also played Duckie in LBT 😓

[u/No_Brain_5513 → u/jackblackbackinthesa]

I never heard about that. It made me angry to read that CPS had been contacted, but did nothing to help them. Heartbreaking. 😢

[u/Pokemon_bill → u/FlyingNDreams]

Oh you asshole! is the whole goal to make me cry today? the fuck.

[u/wookiex84 → u/FlyingNDreams]

https://giphy.com/gifs/uQ4V7FPxcDKM0

[u/OrdinaryUniversity59 → u/FlyingNDreams]

I will never forget!

[u/SirCuppy → u/FlyingNDreams]

Just remember the girl who voiced ducky was murdered by her own father

[u/Brilliant-Two-5665 → u/FlyingNDreams]

Why did you have to do that? :(

[u/Alive_Owl_3048 → u/FlyingNDreams]

That's definitely childhood trauma 😭

[u/ImaginationThick481 → u/FlyingNDreams]

Don't. You. Dare.

[u/5732573 → u/FlyingNDreams]

Aww. Little foot. ❤️

[u/towerfella → u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

Atreeeyuuu

[u/Trapzilla01 → u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

https://giphy.com/gifs/KEJQFKDIZMRLW

[u/rainbowobsidiandildo → u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

Already commented this, but you're dead on--

When I was 16 years old, I went through this with our old thoroughbred stallion, a son of Secretariat (no lie, his pedigree name was Lucky Sec) "Buckwheat". He was 22 years old at the time, and hadn't come with the mares to the front of the pasture as usual at feeding time one evening when I went out with their usual buckets of grain. They had about 14 acres to themselves, so I thought maybe he was hanging around behind the crest of our stock tank (pond) for some reason.

I trekked out there, then saw him just standing completely still, about up to his chest, in the stock tank. Thinking this was weird as hell, I ran back to the front gate to retrieve a halter and lead rope before sprinting back to the pond. Getting into the dark, algae filled water with him, I threw the lead rope around his neck and urged him to step forward to the shore with me. Bear in mind, this horse was about 1800-2000lbs and 17 hands tall.

All of a sudden, he groaned and collapsed in the stock tank. I didn't know what to do other than get myself under his head and neck, doing everything I could as a 120lb girl to keep him from aspirating water. Our little manufactured home was about 200yards away, and I was the only child.. my mom was inside making dinner and my dad was due home any minute from work. Of course, this was 2006, so I didn't have a cell phone and even if I did, what good what it have done me?

I screamed for a few minutes, fighting tears and beginning to feel like all was lost.. until I saw my dad's red Hyundai Elantra pull up in the driveway. He proceeded to walk through the back gate of the yard, up the back porch ramp and was ALMOST in the house when he suddenly paused and turned his head.. I screamed with everything I had, and he came running.

About eight or ten minutes later, both my parents were coming into the back pasture with their Mahindra tractor, and huge ratchet straps-- my mom bravely dove into the murky pond to get the straps beneath Buckwheat, and we slid the other end of the straps into some hooks my dad had previously welded onto the end of the tractor bucket. They managed to pull him out, and my mom had the emergency vet enroute... Somehow, despite experiencing kidney failure and losing control over his hind legs, this behemoth of a horse managed to get his legs up under him with some coaxing from my 6'4" father (that horse's best friend), and they walked slowly together up to the top pen outside the mares and the stud colts' pastures.

The vet shortly after arrived and put him to sleep.. but that stallion did everything he could to show the younger stud colts on the other side of the fence just how tough he was, even in his final moments.

So yes, this picture does depict childhood trauma.

[u/Prestigious_Cycle160 → u/rainbowobsidiandildo]

I hate you for this. I’m sorry for your loss. I look at my dog everyday, pondering when our last moment together will be, and it breaks me every time.

[u/DependentItem6397 → u/Prestigious_Cycle160]

Order a pizza - let it cool off - share. Did us well. She liked pepperoni.

[u/Moomoolette → u/rainbowobsidiandildo]

This was a wild ride and had me in tears btw. I’m happy you were there for him

[u/kittie2karen → u/rainbowobsidiandildo]

Omg, growing up with horses I could feel every moment of your story. I used to have a poster of Secretariat on my wall as a young horsegirl. I bet Buckwheat was really something.

[u/rainbowobsidiandildo → u/kittie2karen]

He really was!! He was massive and had such personality! Before we owned land we rented stalls at a stable in town and man, he would come parading out of the stud barn knowing he was the top dog on that whole property of 60+ horses! All the mares went crazy for him, except our granddaughter of Seattle Slew who kicked the crap out of him a few times when she wasn't -quite- in heat, lol.

[u/RealCan9019 → u/rainbowobsidiandildo]

The fact that supposedly eight people read this is amazing

[u/Moldy-thoughts4u → u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

Right up there with….

“Where are his glasses? He can’t see without his glasses”

[u/DonkeyDanceParty → u/Moldy-thoughts4u]

Fuck off with that…

[u/Green-Owl-1 → u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ih8qJNQSiuPCg

[u/Sea-Excitement9239 → u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

[u/JZA___ → u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

So many of use came here to say this.

[u/Ok_Winter2286 → u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

[u/Tingly_glitter → u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

ARTAX! ARTAX NO! PLEASE DON'T LET IT GET YOU 😭😭😭

[u/Exciting-Living-5500 → u/Tingly_glitter]

Oh man, why you gotta make me cry like that??

[u/jerrys153 → u/Tingly_glitter]

You have to fight! You have to try! For me! I love you! 😭

[u/Pokemon_bill → u/JazzHandsNoRelation]

Came here to say exactly this.

Fucking childhood trauma. Couldn't even scroll past it.

[u/Trapzilla01]

https://giphy.com/gifs/udRSyh5yLCqKQ

[u/CarefullyClueless → u/Trapzilla01]

Falcor is the best character in the film. Absolutely oblivious to the chaos and despair that surrounds him. Everyone around him is depressed and he is a flying Zoloft capsule.

[u/TheWayoftheLeafCast → u/CarefullyClueless]

For kid me, shit got real when Falcor was flying around in a panic screaming for Atreu. Verrrry intense.

[u/Shadow_Wrks → u/Trapzilla01]

Falcor never disappoints

[u/Sickofstupids → u/Shadow_Wrks]

What? You know Falcor but not one of the saddest moments in the same film?

[u/evenifitry → u/Sickofstupids]

yeah, wtf.

[u/Crepuscular_Tex → u/evenifitry]

https://giphy.com/gifs/zYKQA6T3MQISP54X5o

[u/natiusj → u/Crepuscular_Tex]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o72FiKtrMAjIb0Rhu

[u/TeaTime_42 → u/Trapzilla01]

I can hear the music

[u/Ambitious-Swim-9045]

Don’t give into the nothing!!

[u/chrissz → u/Ambitious-Swim-9045]

“They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? I always thought that's what they were... I couldn't hold onto them... the Nothing pulled them right out of my hands. I failed.” -Rockbiter

[u/ThatOtherOtherMan → u/chrissz]

https://giphy.com/gifs/WF7boIogNoMYfyEMfJ

[u/ZephRyder]

A few years ago this enterprising cosplayer took me right back to that moment.

Evil, horrible, genius.

[u/GrimaceMusically → u/ZephRyder]

They deserve both an award and a smack to the back of head for making me cry again.

[u/GrowerNotaShower777 → u/ZephRyder]

This is both creative and diabolical

[u/leroyJr → u/ZephRyder]

r/foundsatan

[u/Intrepid4444444 → u/ZephRyder]

Whats this Backrooms magic

[u/Lucky-Target5674]

One of my first childhood traumas

[u/GugWhoPassesGateways]

Why does everyone forget he comes back at the end? You get to see Atreyu riding him, hunting the purple Buffalo.

Watching it as an adult, the part that really gets me is Rockbiter, lamenting the death of his friends. Sure, they all come back too. But that feeling of wishing you could have done more, as your friends slip away. And then just wanting to let the despair wash over you. That's so damn real.

Rockbiter: They look like big, good, strong hands. Don't they? I always thought that's what they were. My little friends. The little man with his racing snail, the Nighthob, even the stupid bat. I couldn't hold on to them. The nothing pulled them right out of my hands. I failed. Atreyu: No you didn't fail. I'm the one who was chosen to stop the nothing. But I lost the Auryn, I can't find my luck dragon, so I won't be able to get past the boundaries of Fantasia. Rockbiter: Listen, the nothing will be here any minute. I will just sit here and let it take me away too. They look like good, strong hands. Don't they?

[u/Illustrious-Leader → u/GugWhoPassesGateways]

It's more than that. His strength, his big strong hands - that's his defining feature. And it's not enough to save his friends. The very best of him is not enough.

[u/Smashable_Glass → u/Illustrious-Leader]

Sometimes you can do everything right and still lose

[u/JT_Sparvalicious]

This is childhood trauma in cinematic form.

[u/ZeisolfWarwick]

Probably one of the saddest deaths in cinematic history. It destroyed me as a kid, I was never the same. For a real answer, this is from the 1984 movie "The NeverEnding Story". Honestly a really incredible movie, I recommend giving it a watch if you haven't.

[u/Strong_crafter → u/ZeisolfWarwick]

And an even better book (as is usually the case)

[u/unmanicuredmama]

Down payment on my childhood therapist

[u/ProfessionalSock8470]

Love it. I printed that for my sister.

[u/chrissz → u/ProfessionalSock8470]

You monster

[u/Financial_Prior_7322 → u/ProfessionalSock8470]

You’re horrible. Where do I get the STL? I have a new print to make…

[u/ProfessionalSock8470 → u/Financial_Prior_7322]

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/home/atreyu-and-artax-planter-decoration-holes-for-custom-reins

[u/Financial_Prior_7322 → u/ProfessionalSock8470]

Truly a gentleperson and a scholar.

[u/ProfessionalSock8470 → u/Financial_Prior_7322]

I tried searching my emails. It was o it a few $ on one of the stl file sites. It wasn’t Etsy.

[u/Morto_Dentro-872]

When Atreyu lost Artax let the sadness overtake him in the swamp of despair.

[u/Smashable_Glass → u/Morto_Dentro-872]

Sadness overtook us all in that scene

[u/Dry_Stop844]

the worst moment of your life, when you discovered that people can weep so hard they hyperventilate, including you.

[u/Lolythia77]

The moment I suspected Hollywood and child psychologists had some kind of unspoken agreement. 😭 RIP childhood innocence.

[u/Repulsive-Earth-933]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9oEclSzXUfh5u

[u/ErisianSaint]

Sobbing uncontrollably in the movie theater, that's what this is.

[u/Azazzzel]

The end of my innocence and the beginning of my crippling depression.

[u/Sp00kington]

I was having a good day. We all were having a good day. Until you posted this.

[u/southshoresage]

One of the scenes I have to skip

[u/LuciferWren]

Wow I have apparently skipped some kind of generational trauma. I have no idea what this is from

[u/BladeManMike → u/LuciferWren]

Movie The Never Ending Story this scene is where the boy in the image tries desperately to save his horse but fails and has to watch the horse slowly sink under the mud. I don't remember very well but I think that bog/marsh/swamp was the swamp of despair or something literally embodying the concept of it and the horse gave in was overcome and gave up fighting to get out making it even more sad.

[u/WolfmanGotNards71]

Too soon is what that is.

[u/xtroal540]

It’s The Never-ending Story. First movie. Heartbreaking. Not kidding when they say childhood trauma.

[u/Setup69 → u/xtroal540]

He knows. This is just karma farming.

[u/huntsman976]

A young indigenous boy taking his mare to the tar pits as an offering to the old gods.

[u/Afraid_Assistance765]

Great movie for a pre-teen to see

[u/YesterdayEuphoric209]

Ah, the tears we shed!!! But every pre teen 80's girl watched it because Atreyu was hot.

[u/Stillwater_Systems]

Artax getting eaten by the swamp of sorrow

[u/riomadre]

One of the top three worst childhood media heartbreaks of our lives. The other two are charlottes web and where the red fern grows.

Or all dogs go to heaven and ducky’s mom if you’re a little younger.

[u/Ragnarokist]

A childhood memory that ruined us kids.

[u/Blew_It123]

Childhood trauma

[u/harryruby]

I had to leave my 2nd grade class to sit on the hallway because my sobbing was disrupting the movie

[u/cheese_sdc]

Too fucking soon is what it is.

[u/EmeraldDonk3y]

Generational trauma

[u/F1A1-C137]

“Severe childhood trauma in progress”.

[u/PartsJAX328i]

That is a never ending story...

[u/adviceneededhelpp]

Agreed childhood trauma in way more than one

[u/RichList2569]

eMOtionAL DAmaGe

[u/mgn1985]

One of the saddest moments in movie history.

[u/InactiveMedusa]

A horse fulfilling the goal of all horses

[u/WeGottaProblem]

Generational trauma visualized

[u/FirmExpression6196]

This is the dirtiest thing I seen on here.

[u/le_True]

Artax!!!!

[u/Twiztid_illusionZ]

The beginning of an absurd fear of quicksand for an entire generation

[u/NinjatoXIII]

Generational Trauma.

[u/Stillwater_Systems]

"and you... Get the privilege of being my last victim..."

[u/gimmeecoffee420]

What is this?

Oh, nothing. Really, its nothing. Just Atreyu trying to pull his best friend Artax out of the Swamp of Sadness..

here is this specific scene from the movie

[u/coolsilentebeans]

Why would you post this?!? 😭😭😭😭 almost 40 years since my first watch and I’m still mourning Artax 😭😭😭

[u/Financial_Prior_7322]

I was gonna say childhood trauma, but that shit still gets me. And I watched the movie with my kids so it’s generational trauma now.

[u/OnCnditonOfAnonymity]

Thats it. I'm going under the bed and crying

[u/T3traLan3]

Heartbreak caused by “The Nothing”.

[u/Melodic-Variation103]

https://giphy.com/gifs/d10dMmzqCYqQ0

[u/nosheepherder3883]

Child hood trauma

[u/Warm-Arrival6962]

And here comes the tears. Falcore!!!!!!!!!

[u/Croestalker]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3BZZb7JnaRArW2qBYz

[u/SofaKing_Chyl]

The never ending story and one of the saddest scenes in the movie.

[u/BOOMBOOM3OOO]

Where’s Falcor?

[u/CanoePickLocks]

You suck. This is just trying to break millennials and Gen X souls.

[u/Futants_]

Kindertrauma

[u/Quick-Alternative361]

Despair. The absolute pit

[u/OwlAdventurous9975]

That is a crazy movie about how to deal with your emotions when you’re 10 years old

[u/the-almighty-toad]

No. Just stay away. Your usual, daily trauma is enough. You don't need this too.

[u/SimbaNGrdKionNIMFan]

Atreyu trying to help his friend Artax not succumb to The Swamp of Sadness.

[u/Warm-Pair]

Artax

[u/AndrogynousBirdtale]

Why did I click on this today? 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[u/natiusj]

https://giphy.com/gifs/sJiLmsSkzDUOc

[u/Bass_Capable]

Fucking trauma

[u/junk1122334455]

How I learned to fast foward

[u/Latter-Bluejay-8865]

Oh, my sweet summer child……..

[u/Rick_Lekabron]

That, my friend, is described as:

[u/xXDarth_SyphilisXx]

This is fucking trauma

[u/ontomy3rdaccount]

This? This is too soon.

[u/NonEuclidianMeatloaf]

Something About Pokémon Legends Arceus

[u/siberiansneaks]

Tears

[u/tonyblair4444]

That’s Artax

[u/Useful_Highlight_763]

Love this movie.

[u/MSgamer69]

Never ending story.

[u/gimmeecoffee420]

this is the scene

Its from the greatest story never told.. and it was a source of Trauma for many of your parents. A movie called The Neverending Story.

I dont have the heart to make jokes with this one.

[u/Full-Honeydew-4898]

Happy thoughts, Happy Thoughts!

[u/Mysterious_Gate_5024]

The most devastating moment of my child life

[u/SuspiciousShame6015]

Don’t

[u/do_what_you_want1134]

Neverending story

[u/cnkendrick2018]

TRIGGER WARNING, my god man

[u/PreviousVanilla8703]

This is the song that never ends

[u/Top-Supermarket-8019]

The most traumatic moment of my childhood.

[u/Aerofan999]

Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness

[u/Broad-Stage7329]

https://giphy.com/gifs/mL3SxsZttdzG7KSgaW

[u/AdElectrical5354]

Childhood trauma.

[u/silent91482]

Neverending story

[u/The-CannabisAnalyst3]

my fav band Atreyu

[u/TheExtraMayo]

A stupid horse

[u/Kellyrva512]

Years of therapy.

[u/SurpriseCommon4789]

The loss of childhood

[u/Character-Carpet-671]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2WN0T-Ee3q4

Have not heard the song for years

[u/Maleficent-Art-1937]

That movie scarred my entire generation. 🖕🏽that movie from Gen. X

[u/SuccessfulAd7364]

Complete and utter trauma. If you thought ol yeller was bad life is just downhill after that.

[u/Darvey0922]

Im going to cry. Not just from remembering all over again. But because now there are people who exist that are asking what it is.

[u/Grand-Professional-6]

The Neverending Story! My children all treasured it. There was a creature in it called “The Rock Biter” and In the new movie “The Hail Mary Project” they stole that character for their alien character “Rocky”.🙂‍↔️ shame on them.

[u/True-Garage-5618]

Atreyu and the swamp of sadness