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That’s colourful! The important question here is… Have you told them?

I know what you mean by the sense of an ‘alternate reality shift’. Doing something normal (like thinking about dinner) makes sense, too! I find that I need to occupy my mind with something else after the grounding, so that I have a sense that is more in touch with everyone else. Except I don’t...

Be my kind of crazy then! Glad I’m here… They’re all having normal days out there. What crazy! ‘Daily routine, unthinking routine for dinner later, what am I having for dinner?’ That is what I imagine the thoughts of the non-PTSD world of people are when they pass me.

I'm so glad it's not just me!!!!! Yes, the 'Gosh this is awful' when alone for the 'What is wrong with you!' when around others does my head in! I almost want to laugh but there's nobody who 'gets it' so then it would just seem bonkers to them... Which then makes me sad! 'What is wrong with...

Are you able to identify physical feelings when you feel at your worst? They tend to be my signal more than anything else, since it's what arrives first. I find 'anxiety' a little difficult at the best of times... It means an awful lot of things for different people. If you stick with your...

Is it just me who suffers with this? For instance, after a flashback, I usually experience disbelief or 'sense of comic disbelief'. I think it's the 'life and death' sensation. It's hard to believe that either I'm alive or that everyone else is (or something...) It just seems strange to be...

Hi Lostlotus Thank you for the welcome. I'm sorry your nights are so traumatic, too. I wish that part of my brain could be cut out. I am definitely looking to get back my better life. I want to feel like I did when I was with Richard. It's much better than it was, I can't describe how...

Who has funny dreams? My life has been so absolutely destroyed by a few things over the past few years, including grief and PTSD (which is a horrible mix), so right now I just need some light relief! I don't have lots and lots of them but when I have them, they are a massive celebratory event...

Also like primarily 'staying in the wing mirror' by the number of 'checks' whilst driving because somehow what's behind is that important and there hasn't been any accident at all!

On arriving home, your partner spontaneously 'plays hypervigilance' with you in the form of competing with your situational awareness just to find out 'who noticed what and how much' in an 'IC1 male' description.

I've got loads. I'll come back another day but tonight's second addition is: You know you have PTSD when two of your trauma therapist colleagues ask you "How do you know that?" (at different times across two years) for it to then happen again with a different colleague in a totally different...

...You wake up in the morning 'punching yourself in the head'. By this I mean regularly waking up with my fist against my temple, whole body tense, as if I'm on the weirdest 'pause' at 'the land of my fist against my head'.... Fist is applying pressure to my head at these times by the way. I...

I'm so sorry that it's something so specific and rare that it involved arms. Although there were no arms involved with mine, weapons were. I was trapped in a building by someone (on purpose) and threat to my life was involved.

Hello Informally diagnosed on three occasions before a formal diagnosis in 2008. The cause of it involves being trapped in a building (The PTSD is not because of claustrophobia, obviously). It's done my head in. The whole thing did my head in for eleven years. I recovered, for it to then...