You Know You Have PTSD When...

[BloomInWinter]

You use the hemorrhoid creme on your toothbrush and your first thought is 'this toothpaste tastes better than my usual brand....huh.'

 

[CraftyCath]

You know you have PTSD when you try to read what has been written and go huh? Read it again and go what? Read it again still can't understand it. WTF?​

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I do this all the time!​

 

[Nase]

...I have to run to the shower after every journal entry I write, but don't cringe while reading others (most of the time)...sometimes I duck, cover, and cry.

 

[intothelight]

You know you have PTSD when.....

Your not afraid to type the most intimate details of your life on the internet, but going to Wal-Mart is terrifying! :eek:

 

[Morning]

You know you have PTSD when...

1. ...you have more emergency helpline numbers in your phonebook than friends,

2. ...you consider Born on the Fourth of July a 'feel good movie',

3. ...you see your psychiatrist, your psychologist and your GP more than you see your family,

4. ...you can remember the name of every soldier in your regiment from 1967, but you can't remember the name of your only grandchild,

5. ...your bestfriend is the psych nurse who hasn't dislocated your shoulder,

6. ...you avoid seeing your friends because you think that they think you're paranoid

7. ...the last time someone climbed into bed with you, they were promptly sedated and taken back to their own ward.

8. ...you spent last year's Australia Day firework celebrations trying to recover the rest of your platoon.

9. ...you wake up at 2am and are thankful that you've finally had a good nights sleep, and

10. ...you're the only one at your ten year highschool reunion with gray hair and a pension.

loved it sooo true....

 

[CraftyCath]

You know you have PTSD when your husband is doing 70 on the motorway and you try to get out of the car and the kids are screaming in the back seat - all because you feel you are too far from home!! (I have done this)!

You know you have PTSD when you wash your hair and can't remember if you washed the conditioner off and then can't be bothered to be bothered!

 

[MouseWedger]

You know you have PTSD when you wash your hair and can't remember if you washed the conditioner off and then can't be bothered to be bothered!

Hahahah! I do this ALL the time in the shower... and with deodorant but I'll be damned if I tell anyone that!

 

[CraftyCath]

and with deodorant

I do that one too Mouse Wedger!

You know you have PTSD when you look into a mirror or shop window and do not recognise yourself. OR, you see your mother looking back...ahgggggg!!

 

[Peffann]

You know you have PTSD when
You pace all night, Know every police officer in your town by first name and they know yours because they have been to your house to check the basement 1,000 times, when you call 911 you know the operators name by their voice, When you hear people complain about traffic, the weather and the economy all in the same sentence and you want to slap them, When you read every article possiable about other local home invasions and swear it is the same robber, run when you see a man with the same description,

Keep checking the locks, knows every shadow on your front yard and were it is coming from, panic when an outside light blows out, knows every noise in the house in the middle of the night and were it is coming from, drives around the block to make sure no one is following you home,

You know you have PTSD when you sleep with your house phone, cell phone incase the robber cuts the phone line and your loaded weapon (saftey on of course) and get up every hour to make sure the house phone is still working and get a kitchen knife incase your gun jams.

 

[CraftyCath]

You know you have PTSD when...

You call the hairdressers to book an appointment, they say 'today at 1pm,' you say 'OK,' in one part of your mind you know it is today but you write down Thursday...and than you get confused and have to ring them back 'cos you really don't know what day you are supposed to be going.

I did this yesterday!

 

[MouseWedger]

When you open a pudding and are confused by the "bubbles" in what you KNOW is vanilla pudding, only to look at the label clearly marked "Tapioca" and are immeditatly confused.

 

[intothelight]

You know you have PTSD when.......

You are scared, happy, disgusted, neutral within 3 minutes, because you are looking at the envelopes that you just pulled out of the mailbox.