You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Ronin]

When you need to be reminded you weren't unkind. The opposite. Abuse-related self concept don't a reality make.

When you overapologize.

 

[user44376]

Running into old coworkers makes you play nice for civility's sake, then after you feel like shit both for what they triggered and for making you act fake and insincere.

 

[Fadeaway]

When you don't know how to stop feeling like everything in life is a fight and just be.

 

[user44376]

When you don't know how to stop feeling like everything in life is a fight and just be.

I like the idea of life being a fight in a philosophical sense of making yourself the best you can be against the odds, but PTSD has made going to the MALL into a cage match.

 

[mumstheword]

When your head is constantly foggy, painful, cotton wool and so you spend an entire 1/2 bus trip trying to remember the name of a woman you did music therapy with, whom you've spoken to many times since, and come up empty. Finally surrendering to having to ask her her name again.

 

[Friday]

When other people's metaphors are your reality.

 

[Lionheart]

When someone else is upset and it turns you into a ball of nervous energy and you can't calm down until they do. (As opposed to calmly listening to them explain why they are upset).

 

[Anrish]

When you are upset by things others find amusing.

 

[Ronin]

When you're incredibly helped by statistics on awful things.

That's a progress story, in progress. :bag:

 

[Friday]

When the following question is instantly met with the following answer :

How do you manage your emotions?

With a stick! :D :sneaky: :tup: Back back foul demons!


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Oh.

That's probably not the right answer, huh? >.>

 

[Deleted member 12723]

How do you manage your emotions?

With a stick! :D :sneaky: :tup: Back back foul demons!

Thank you Friday for the laughs, that was so funny!:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

 

[Ronin]

When your DBT lesson of the day is watching a horror series.

Lookit. I can modulate fear. And rage. And other overactivation schtuffs.

When your real horror show begins with doing a trauma timeline.
Nawh, not today, Satan. Today is a fries & horchata & movie day.