Womb twin survivors in flm - Unborn

So they made a film of it.  It was some time ago, but I am so sorry that it had to be a horror film.




The worst line is "By living, you denied it entry into this world."   Not a good thing for any womb twin survivor  to hear. It is the worst nightmare, that you are the cause of your own twin's death.

But the film does tackle some of the more difficult themes, such as feeling haunted by your twin. It also suggests that an exorcism can help.  She has a dibbuk, she says.



Funny that they didn't make so much of the lost twin theme, just the horror? I'll look a bit deeper....

This man hated it:

A young woman discovers her stillborn twin brother's ghost is haunting her in an effort to infiltrate the world of the living but there may be more to the story than just an angry undead twin, something far more ancient lurks in the darkness. Jamby wants to be born now. *groan*

It's sunk without trace, just like the vanished twin. Not surprising really, I suppose.

Hoarding - a disorder of attachment?

MY MOTHERS GARDEN

In the suburban setting of a quiet tree-lined street in Granada Hills, California we see a 61 year old woman pushing a grocery cart to her front door. We watch her climb through a window covered in ivy and cob webs into her house, stepping on top of stacks of newspapers, piles of debris, rotting material, clothing, and toys; a living mass of waste that has literally pushed her out of the house and into her garden.

My Mother’s Garden is the story of Eugenia Lester whose hoarding disorder has entered a dangerous and life threatening stage. Directed by her daughter Cynthia, it documents how one family comes together to cope with their mother’s disorder and rebuild a lost sense of family. My Mother’s Garden was an official selection of the 2006 New York IFP Market and was a finalist for the IFP Socially Conscious Documentary Award. The film has also received support from the 2007 New York State Council For the Arts and the 2007 Pacific Pioneer Fund.

Director’s statement:

My personal journey through this documentary was necessary to heal the wounds of abandonment, isolation, and dependency that are often present when raised by a parent with a persistent mental illness. Though my brothers and I are now adults, we all feel a deep need for a stabilizing center for our family, a permanent place to call home. This longing for stability has caused disorder in our lives, both socially and emotionally. Through this documentary, I am applying my experience in social work, art therapy, and filmmaking to my own family. I hope that the film can be therapeutic as well as a creative work of art that will help bring awareness to the issue of mental illness and also reach others who are sympathetic to this subject matter. Cynthia Lester Director

Take a look at this

The family got her out of the house for eight weeks and they cleared it out for her. She fell into bed and into despair. "Everythings gone" she said, mourning her stuff.

It is becoming clear that hoarding is an attachment disorder, but only in the sense that the stuff stands in for something ( or maybe Someone ) else. A house filled with clutter is a mausoleum to the dead. The task of the clutterer is to hold on - never let go.

Wombtwin survivors hoard, we know that. Are hoarders wombtwin survivors? We should be asking that question, because if they are, we can help.

A film about a wombtwin survivor

This new film "The unborn" is a horror movie. Pity. It really does NOT help wombtwin survivors to be associated with a lot of Hollywood hype.

The twin bond is a loving one, usually positive, but of course there will always be twins who hate each other. However, it is never a haunting. Never that.

War in the womb

A two-part programme on BBC 4, starting on December 5th, sets out an intriguing theory: maternal/foetal conflict.

It's great that documentary makers are beginning to see at last that the nine months in the womb are a vital developmental stage, which helps to create our individual nature. This is an important addition to the nature/nurture debate.

Do watch it ( you can catch it on the net on BBCi) and let me know what you think.

I wonder: will they soon think of making a documentary about wombtwin survivors? I do hope so!

The vanishing twin on Utube

Here is a lovely little video with stills and some film, made by a wombtwin survivor.

Click here to view

Her grandma said she cried and cried as a baby.......

If you see any more features like this, do let me know thanks.

We need a documentary film about this!

I look around at the subjects that documentary films deal with and I wonder if anyone will ever make a film about vanishing twin phenomenon and the effect on the people who are the born survivors?

One in ten people is a wombtwin survivor. There are 600 million wombtwin survivors in the world. There are 6 million in the UK. That's a huge potential audience, not to mention the skeptics who will want to argue that the whole idea of any psychological effect on wombtwin survivors is baloney (including of course the few who still cling to the idea that the vanishing twins were abducted by aliens....)

Quite a story.

Any film makers out there?