How Sez Sees It

As it is the season I thought I would write about my favourite horror films that I would be watching (or would like to watch) at Halloween. This is in no particular order, but these are some of my favourite horror films and films with horror elements: 1. Death Note (2006) This is a film from Japan based on the Manga. I include this in the list because the subject matter deals with supernatural beings (shinigami) and death. I think it is a horror in a sense and therefore this film fits. The live film deviates from the original story but only because some of the elements of the story wouldn't be possible in live action on a budget and also because they tried to fit the story into two films that are about two hours long each. The characters are all there though, Light, L, Misa, Ryuk and Rem. The only real complaint I have is that Misa is not a blonde. The premise is still the same though. Light (Fujiwara Tatsuya-san) finds a 'death note' dropped into the human world by a s...

Mental health can affect many aspects of your life. Eating can be one of those things. Before I go on I want to point out the difference between anxiety affecting your appetite and the anorexia nervosa and bulimia disorders. Anorexia is a medical condition where people keep their body weight as low as possible. Bulimia is a medical condition where people try to control their weight but binge eat and then purge through vomiting or laxatives. I found this amazing blog recently in which the blogger opens up about her relationship with food and anxiety. It is on Hello Giggles . I was so inspired by it that I wanted to share my own relationship with food and anxiety. I have had this problem on and off for about as long as I can remember. I think I first noticed by problem when I was at primary school. We all get nervous and that can put us off eating until the thing that is making us nervous passes. This is called fight or flight and is a natural response that we developed over t...

Ever since we have had televisions in bedrooms and mobile phones in our hands at all hours of the day and night the question has been there. Do we get enough sleep? Recent studies suggest we may only get as much sleep as our ancient ancestors did. Apparently with all the looking out for dangerous things sleep was light anyway and that is something that we have kept through evolution. Blue light emitted from televisions and mobile phones is thought to prevent the brain from creating melatonin, which we need to go to sleep. Keeping our brains active later is also not helping. If we read emails and try and work later into the evening we are not giving our brains time to 'switch off'. Also, we tend to panic if we think we are not getting enough sleep. A few times in my life I have been laying awake in bed and worried that I wasn't getting to sleep. Really my body and brain probably didn't need so much sleep that night. Or perhaps I was too worried about something happ...

For the last four days I have felt very ill. I am nauseous, light headed, exhausted and really just scared of the whole thing. I have lost track of the number of people who think I am pregnant. It is no longer funny. I have a virus that has been doing the rounds and I have an upset stomach as part of it. My question is this...why is it that a woman in her late 20's must automatically be pregnant the moment she says she is ill? Now I admit, I am an adult and I live with my fiancé and we are not exactly 'waiting for marriage' so I can see why people would think that I might be pregnant when I say that I am ill. The thing is that we are incredibly careful. We are certainly not in a position to have children yet and I do not intend to go down that route for a number of years. The fact is that it is a virus that I have and nothing more. There are some women who would love the thought that they might be pregnant, but there are others who never intend to have children. I d...

This is all my own opinion. If you don't like it then fine. Remember, we are all entitled to an opinion so don't take this the wrong way and get the hump over it. Right...here we go... Women who play video games part 1: Women now make up around 50% of all gamers. It seems women are more likely to play mobile games or wii games and men play more Xbox games. Well, that is according to studies. However, there is starting to be a shift and more women are playing the same games and consoles as men. Portrayals of women: Often, women are sexualised and appear as the 'damsel in distress'. They appear with large boobs and impossible figures. They are this way because the gaming industry is still geared up to the male market. With more women playing games this needs to change. Lara Croft from the ' Tomb Raider ' franchise is a rare thing, she is a protagonist in a major franchise. Often this goes to male characters who might have a female sidekick or a woman ...