You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Red Feather]

Okay I wrote this out already so I wouldn't forget. Lol.

You know you have PTSD when...

...You are going to your doctor's and since you've been there before, you forget to look at the signs while entering to find out which floor the doctor's office is on, and realize that once you are already in the elevator and the doors have shut on you. So you end up checking the floors as you go up thinking it must have been the 2nd or the 3rd floor. 2nd Floor No. Third Floor. No. Fourth Floor. No. Oops. Someone called the elevator again to the bottom floor. And they take you to the basement.

Then you drop them off again and go the 5th floor. No. 6th floor. Huh???? No sign of your doctor's office. So you go all the way back to bottom since you think you might have missed it, and check the signs (which you should have done while entering the building.) You look and look and find no sign with your doctor's name on it. One of the spaces is missing so you think...he might have died and closes his practice without informing you?? (since you have had this happen to you before.) :(

Then you check the signs outside the building. No luck. Then you realize. Oh! The address was 13A instead of 5A! Okay!!! So you found the right building with the right address, the right sign, and the right floor, and then you go up the elevator and find the right door... and it's locked!

Huh??? A secretary eventually comes out after I've rang the doorbell. Didn't I have an appointment at 2pm? She goes back and checks. My appointment is at 3pm and she she also adds that I should take care to come on time, because there is a long wait...

OKAY! :)

 

[Hashi]

You know you have PTSD when it recently became hot, hot, HOT, you live in a country that isn't air conditioned, you get back to your stifling home after a long, sticky day and you're so caught up in what your T said to you that - on autopilot - you put on a thick fleece dressing gown and switch the central heating on.

Well, it's HOT, HOT, HOT now!

 

[Deleted member 12723]

You know you have ptsd when you are making a buisiness call on a voice mail and you are supposed to leave your phone number and you forget it:eek:

 

[intothelight]

You know you have PTSD when.......

You open a new mustard and ketchup bottle and then pick up the wrong cap. It takes you forever to figure out why the cap doesn't fit (did the opening shrink when I removed the paper? Did the plastic expand? Doh it the wrong cap!:eek:)

When going to put gasoline in a vehicle you have never filled up before, you pull up on the correct side, but don't know it is the correct side because you can't find the fuel door. So you turn around and pull up at a pump on the other side and can't find a fuel door on that side. So you finally find the fuel door and proceed to back up to the pump so you are on the correct side so you don't go in another circle. But since you've already made two circle what is one more???

 

[Deleted member 12723]

You know you have ptsd when there are more than one fire alarm going off demanding new batteries and you can't track down which ones they are. The beeping is driving me crazy. We are trying to find out which ones they are so we can change the batteries. This is so annoying. :rolleyes:

 

[Red Feather]

You know you have PTSD when you dissociate at the supermarket because you don't know what kind of cheese you want.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

You know you have ptsd when you hear beeps and don't know where they are coming from. So you check one cell phone and recharge it, and that was'nt it. You keep checking all the batteries in the land line phone, the fire alarms, and you call the mobile home park handy man to come out and help you and he can't find anything.

Then when You are in the car going to do your errands you discover that you forgot to turn off your cell phone in your purse. Geez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:rolleyes::oops::rolleyes:

 

[BloomInWinter]

...when the steak sauce you swear you just bought but tastes funny has an expiration date from 3 years ago.

 

[LawPhotos]

You know you have PTSD when....
You are sitting in your T's waiting room, anxiety building as you think about what you need to talk about, you look up at the TV and when one person on the TV reaches out to touch another person on the shoulder, YOU jerk away violently!

Yep, that was a first for me...I've never actually flinched at movement on the TV before. Great, a brand new Low......

 

[^^FlyingSolo^^]

You know you have PTSD when: you've got plenty of shampoo at home but you really need conditioner! Off to the store you go.

You only have 2 things to get at the store.

What happens, you come home and find out you got Shampoo instead of conditioner. :rolleyes:

That happened to me yesterday. But I didn't find out until today when I looked at the bottle. Errrk.

I thought, why does this not surprise me? :rolleyes:

 

[PepperAnne]

- When you go from feeling like an adult to feeling like a scared child because someone yells
- When you emotion enter a room and survey all the exits and sit with at least one in plan sight.
- When you wake up from a dream physically but not emotionally
- When you have been misdiagnosed with more mental disorders than you had childhood illnesses.
- When you are driving and suddenly realize you have no idea where you are... oh wait.. that's DIDS... lol.. that's me.

 

[NarcSis]

When you pull up to a fast food window and the person asks, "How can I help you?" and in the sudden pressure of deciding, your mind goes blank and you say, "What's good?"
No word of a lie, they think you're nuts!