You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Ruby5]

When it rains for the first time at your new apartment and you're awake pointing your weapon at the window in milliseconds

 

[Rosewater]

When you realise your twitter feed has changed to become 70% mental health and psychology people

 

[Ronin]

When you can handle complex tasks as long as limited amount of people wants explanations for what you're doing, but the simple breaks you down.

& your usual turning the simple into X shades of complex gets stuck at Can't. Brain.

& people's suppositions about asynchronous development & that you're too moronic to handle things only because of what you can't do lead to a ragefit. No, you're wrong, rephrase it in a way my head gets it, and don't talk to me as a simpleton. Can't verbalize & think in the usual pathways, doesn't mean I'm not thinking & doesn't mean I need your abuse.

 

[Friday]

If anyone can do the simple things? Let anyone else do them.

 

[The Albatross]

You know you have PTSD when you alter/rearrange your commitments based on your SUDs (subjective units of distress) and fatigue levels cuz if you don't you're bucking for reactivity.

 

[JustBe]

...when watching happy old home movies from your chilhood triggers a massive meltdown.

 

[Ronin]

When you just don't watch movies you watched when with your abusers, or with caution. Forgot about the spells of violence followed by soo-comfort-we're-alright movie times, remembered I hate the movies, didn't remember why. :cautious:

 

[Deleted member 28403]

When you miss a coding competition you've been prepping for for a couple months. I had no idea what day it was :P Mainly laughing at it

 

[Heather]

When everything your daughter's going through, triggers you:yuck:

 

[Ronin]

When you miss a coding competition you've been prepping for for a couple months. I had no idea what day it was

There goes my hero though.

I laughed so hard seeing this & thanks for that laugh.

That preparation matters. ;)

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you sort 2 loads of laundry into darks and lights adding your white socks into the load of lights. And you move your darks and lights from washer to dryer like usual. When your darks are done first you start folding and hanging them up when you find a white sock. Now you start looking through all of your darks for the rest of the 4 and a half pair of white socks you know you washed.

You take apart your sock drawer 47 times and check your closet 19 times and go around the house telling everyone you can't believe you lost 4 and half pair of white socks. You go on to tell everyone you clearly remember looking into the dryer to make sure it was empty.

And hours later during dinner you remember you still have a load of lights in the dryer. And when you look you find your entire load of lights including 4 and a half pair of white socks. And that's when you realize the one sock must have accidentally gotten mixed in with your darks starting this entire situation. And then you laugh at yourself because PTSD.

 

[Ronin]

... when you seriously consider going to a psychiatrist with 'My anxiety has gotten better at realizing my socks situation improved over the past few months'.

& finding little details that mean you have it together (cough, certainly) makes your day.