You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Changing4Best]

When you dissociate during conversations a lot and have to keep asking folks to repeat themselves. (Adding to this dilemma is the fact that I am hard of hearing besides!).

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you're driving down the street and you come to a red light and you put the car in park to adjust the seat and then instead of putting the car back in drive you turn the car off.

 

[9320]

You'd rather be sedated and in a mental hospital than feel anything. Or high as a kite on drugs. I have a lot of PTSD triggers in my life at the moment and it's killing me. I feel like my brain is in a vice.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you need to go to the skin doctor because you have had a pre-cancerous mole in the past and so you need to have a "skin check" and he is the only skin doctor within a very large area (UGH!), the other closest one is in another state and is probably a male too. I did not even bother to check.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you can't tell the difference between your "gut" and hypervigilance.

 

[NoWhereKnowWhere]

When you shit yourself every time the post comes. My first thought is always someone's trying to get in the house. It takes 3 hours to calm down from the post everyday and the next day you're just as surprised. Thank f*ck for Sundays. Haha

 

[Karen12]

It takes several minutes for your heart to stop racing just because something fell off a kitchen counter when your back was to it.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

When you run away when someone recognizes you on the street. Well, y'know what they say. "A man runs the fastest when a dog is chasing him" well, same goes for when someone deep deep in your memory calls you in the street.

 

[Changing4Best]

When your refrigerator makes banging noises and you jump or get scared and also if you just get super puzzled as to what that noise is, even though you can guess that it is that dang refrigerator again!

 

[Changing4Best]

@KnowWhereKnowWhere do you know any grounding techniques. If you do, try to remember to do them when you get that shook up. You know, focus on your feet touching the floor, or how your body touches the surfaces it is laying on or sitting on. Notice sounds and smells and sights in your environment, until you calm down. Also, if you know when your post comes each day, set your radio alarm clock to go off a half hour beforehand, so you might hear the post noises less, or maybe go to an area of the home where you cannot hear it before you expect it to arrive. The point is to get yourself into a frame of mind where you are expecting the noises, but are focusing on other things. Let us know how these things help or don't help, OK?

 

[ms spock]

When people think you are psychic because you can anticipate people's next actions.

 

[ISupportHer]

When your refrigerator makes banging noises and you jump or get scared and also if you just get super puzzled as to what that noise is

You know you have PTSD when you think your refrigerator is making noises. :)

Oh wait, I just heard MY refrigerator make a noise!
Does that mean.......??????