You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Changing4Best]

When you feel anxiety and you don't know why!

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you're around family members you haven't seen since you moved 2 years ago and they ask you if you're seeing anyone or have any friends and you say "no" and feel a little ashamed of yourself. And then you remember you always did feel kind of awkward around them because they're so "normal" and you're so not "normal".

 

[Changing4Best]

When you smile at a father holding his baby and talking to the little fellow and then you quickly stop smiling when he does not smile back, worrying that he thinks you are making a pass at him!

 

[LittleL]

When the colour of the walls changes all of a sudden, and start panicking that you're so insane that you've completely lost touch with reality...

And that's when you realize it was a flashback. I promise I'm only a little crazy. :rolleyes:

 

[Changing4Best]

When you work at a volunteer job sorting cloths at a charitable organization and you panic that the job is so boring that you have to leave early.

 

[DMerish]

When you work at a volunteer job sorting cloths at a charitable organization and you panic that the job is so boring that you have to leave early.

I don't get this one :-o Can you please explain it to me? :confused:

 

[rainy_daze]

You know you have PTSD when...

• you put your mobile phone in the fridge (instead of the milk)
• you scream loudly when it rings, and takes you a couple of minutes to calm your body down
• you get up and leave the room because something on television lights a spark of remembering in you that you think you can't deal with
• you isolate yourself by staying indoors
• or you feel you have to "act normal" at work or places like that (this sometimes involves bathroom breaks in order to freak out)
• you struggle to tell anyone how you actually feel
• you are working hard on being comfortable with emotions and dissociation, and accepting the past events that led you to need to start a healing journey in the first place.

 

[JustBe]

Sharing your space with anyone is exhausting.

 

[Changing4Best]

I don't get this one ... explain it to me? :confused:

I was so uncomfortable there that I panic'd and had to leave. Something triggered me I guess.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When your therapist gives you a print out of 15 distorted thinking patterns to take home and review. And when you bring it back and discuss which ones you relate to she tells you that you have 8 of the 15 distorted thinking patterns.

 

[StarChild]

• When you wake up on one of those very bad days, crying and shaking, even without a nightmare. And when you're noise sensitivity is that high, that your beloved dogs playing makes you cry and sob again, as well as the kettle and even the noise of the flush is simply to overwhelming.

• When to choose between two different jam for breakfast will send you into another despaired crying.

• When you try to explain why you're so overwhelmed, but during the explanation you forget the third time, what you wanted to say. And you're so deeply ashamed about yourself because of the bad state you're in.

• When such a day with all its impressions, noises, smells is so terrible overwhelming, that you can't remember, what a normal day does look or feel like.

 

[DharmaGirl]

When you put several pair of your son's underwear in the bookcase with the doors and forget why you did it and that you did it at all. Your son complains he's out of underwear, you buy him more. You open the bookcase months later to get something out and behold!, there is you son's underwear. Your family never lets you forget,