You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Red Feather]

When you write a quote on your profile, but misplace a word with another one, so that the meaning of the quote becomes something very different. And then notice this much later. Good thing there is an edit option. :confused:

 

[piratelady]

When you read a post on the forum and think, "Wow, I really relate to this!" But you can't find the "Like" button...only to realize it's your own post.

 

[Hashi]

When this is your new hairwashing technique.

1) Apply conditioner, rinse off immediately. Repeat.
2) Apply shampoo, leave in for 5 minutes, rinse.
3) Wonder why hair doesn't feel conditioned.
4) Suspect that something has gone wrong somewhere.
5) Pick up shampoo bottle and look at it, then conditioner bottle. Repeat.
6) Realise you did it the wrong way round. Start again. Feel like you've been in the bathroom for hours now.
7) Start making exactly the same mistake all over again.

Trying to laugh rather than cry (not sure I'm managing to).

 

[p-no]

Nadia, Funny thing was, when the "Likes" had hit 500 (I think that was it) and the number of messages was an even number, I wanted to post so people would not like any of my posts so the "Likes" wouldn't go up. But by doing so, I would have wrecked my nice even Messages number, so I left it at that. :D :D :D

 

[p-no]

Trying to laugh rather than cry (not sure I'm managing to).

Hashi, seriously really:

1. I did the same. One time I didn't rinse the conditioner and couldn't understand why the heck my hair wouldn't dry as well as usually with the blow dryer and why my hair's "condition" was so different.

2. There was a time, many years ago, when I watched a movie with a scene when someone would say: "You can cry over it or laugh over it. But since both won't make a difference as it's already happened, might as well just laugh." (more or less) For stuff like that I have chosen to laugh ever since. Seriously. Maybe you can apply this as a rule to your life, don't even think about it, laugh and move on.

Illustration of this right out of my life:

The other day I got a pair of pants. Checked it for size stickers. Of course, now in a store here, they have these stickers that run from the bud down to the foot and they put these stickers on every "leg", front and back. I missed one when checking... Went all across Berlin, Germany's capital, with the one leg showing: 42, 42, 42 -- before a woman came up to me whispering: You forgot to take that size sticker off.

Would I ever do a lot of crying if I had chosen to cry over such things, seriously. :D :hug:

 

[Red Feather]

You know you have PTSD when everytime you take your medicine, you wonder a few minutes afterwards if you really have taken it!

 

[intothelight]

You are headed to Lowes (a home improvement store) to pick up screens, walk in and wonder when they started to sell produce???:confused: Continue walking back to where you would pick up screens and wonder why the store has been rearranged and why there are groceries??? :eek:

It doesn't even come to my mind that I am in the wrong store for at least 10 minutes....I just assume they remodeled.:O_o:

 

[Charmedone]

You know you have PTSD when someone tells you "I drove in boots today" and you think they crashed their car into the Boot's store. lol.

 

[Red Feather]

When you have to call the unemployment benefits office. :banghead: And a social worker is sitting right next to you cheering you on.:nailbiting:

And you make an appointment, and have to write down the room number, bearing in mind you are in Germany, and germans do things differently! Yes in Germany, numbers are spoken out backwards, so 2087 is spoken out, "zwei-tausend sieben und achtzig" that is "two thousand seven and eighty..."

But you get befuddling, and keep on asking what he is saying on the phone, even repeating it out loud, scratching out the numbers because they are not making sense. And then the social worker takes your pen out of your hand and writes: 2087. Okay. Thank you very much. :meh: I wish they could just say their numbers in the right order in this country. :inpain:

 

[Hashi]

Nadia, I think your English is so good German is becoming your second language?

Please can I have a social worker next to me for every phone call? It would help soooo much.

 

[Red Feather]

Nadia, I think your English is so good German is becoming your second language?

Heheh, its the other way around. I am an english native speaker, germany is already my second language... :p

Please can I have a social worker next to me for every phone call? It would help soooo much.

No kidding!

 

[Heidi07]

Nadia, I had to laugh when I read your post. I can relate to it in a slightly different way. I am German but lived in the States for 10 years. So when I moved back to Germany, I kept on telling them my wrong birth date because I was doing it the way it was done in the States. Grrrrrrr hated apologizing and correcting myself. They must have thought that I was a total confused person (which I was and still am...lol).