You Know You Have PTSD When...

[freakofnurture]

You know you have PTSD...
* when you read this thread to help you feel a bit less abnormal
* when you've been shaky and barely able to use your fine motor skills for days because you're not eating enough
* when you know that's actually not true but are so fed up with symptoms randomly appearing that you rather overeat than accept the shaking for what it is
* when you're deeply thankful that your arrhythmia is due to scar tissue on your heart muscle because you're so fed up with psychosomatic f*cking symptoms
* when being in a room with other people feels like being in a cage full of tigers
* when you stay in that room, hiding behind a blanket, because to leave you'd have to come out of your cave
* when you know that you have it in you to go on a killing spree and spend fearful hours trying to find something substancial that seperates you from people like Jeff Dahmer
* when you hate, despise and sometimes even fear yourself so much that you want to split off from yourself and run away as fast and far as you can

 

[Iron_Angel]

...when you organize a meet-up of fellow sufferers you've met online, and nobody shows up, not even you.

 

[Heather]

You know you have ptsd when:

you've locked yourself out of your apartment so many times that now whenever your super sees you walking towards him he automaticly says, "did you lock yourself out of your apartment again?"

 

[Grace11]

You know you have Ptsd when what is truly funny .... Is not amusing, and incites you to either clench your fists, turn and run the other direction, hold your breath, lose your breath or suddenly tackle, pummel and kick the sh't out of someone for being truly funny;

And Ooops, ...if they just so happen to get too funny, yet still not amusing, ...and funny so at your expense. :eek:

Wow. This.

You know you have PTSD when you used to be a sarcastic wise cracker and now freak out when anyone says something remotely negative that might have to do with you.

 

[cat]

I love this thread, a place to just let it out!
Totally agree with Iron Angel on the cat, there are days when mine find themselves out in the pouring rain just because they are staring at me! Poor things they'd leave home if they knew what was going on its a good job they have short memories!

 

[Froggie]

when you are in a tub being filled with water and something triggers you into dissociation and then the brain starts to panic and screams : THE TUB IS FULL

snapped out just in time before doing some cleaning naked

 

[jewel]

-When you go to Trader Joes with your grocer list on your Blackberry and forget to look at he blackberry and only come out with bananas just so you come out with something
-when you start an argument with your carer and get side tracked looking at the cute ducks and begin to giggle and promptly forget you were in an argument
-when someone asks you how your weekend was and you reply..."I guess it was good, I just don't remember"
-when you finished reding a book and you think it was good but you can't remember even though you read it yesterday.
-when you ask your child how old you are because you forgot

 

[jewel]

You know you have PTSD when :

A romantic relationship with someone in another state just isn't quite long distance enough.

I would. Ot mind a trans continental relationship....haha

 

[Vee Lagrome]

This thread is great! It has really made me feel so much better. I'll give it a shot, hopefully a few of these will be funny...

You know you have PTSD when...
*you have a separate calendar for all of your medication, psychiatrist, therapist, and doctor appointments ... and it's more full than your other calendar
*the gore in horror movies and video games doesn't bother you, but fake blood at Halloween parties is absolutely unacceptable
*your pet runs toward you for attention, and you run in the other direction
*before big social events, you get involved in lengthy conversations with yourself as to whether or not others will think you're crazy
*the highlight of your day is meds time
*you are able to list every single psychiatric symptom you have experienced that day, but you cannot remember what day of the week it is
*a friend pulls a playful prank on you and you decide that having friends is completely overrated
*you consider the life of a hermit something to aspire to
*you fail to see how narcolepsy could be a bad thing
*you have to explain you're just reenacting a Jackie Chan movie you saw last night after your coworker startles you in the office
*you go to lengths to warn everyone to not be scared by the bottle rockets you are about to set off and are the only one screaming and jumping for cover when they do go off

 

[jewel]

A few more...

-you plan an escape route for when the ambulance comes

-oops, I think I forgot my other ones...give me a minute

-GOT IT! Upon first being diagnosed you scream at the doctor while hysterically crying saying, "this is not PTSD! this is real!"

-when you are in a public place with your eyes closed deep breathing and someone says "are you okay" and you reply "I am meditating" even though it is in the frozen food section because you could not find what you were looking for

 

[Vee Lagrome]

A few more...

-you plan an escape route for when the ambulance comes

Omg, that is so true, hahaha!

 

[Greg Clark]

Well, I used to sleep in the closet ... glad I'm not the only one! OMG.