You Know You Have PTSD When...

[kdblossom]

Yesterday in the grocery store, a VERY nice woman who didn't even look familar

I am glad I am not the only one with this problem. I do it ALL the time. Drives me nuts. :confused:

 

[Orglethorp]

Yesterday in the grocery store, a VERY nice woman who didn't even look familar

This happens to me too! Funny story, I once horribly offended a former classmate who I ran into at a restaurant one New Year's Eve, because after half an hour of me not responding to his subtle hints from across the room, he came over to find out if I'd noticed. At this point I was forced to admit that I had seen him waving and all that, but up until that moment I thought he was someone else and that he was seeking my sister's attention, not mine. I didn't figure out until it was too late who he was and why he would be trying to get my attention. The unfortunate thing is that he was quite cute and still owed me a sushi lunch date for helping him pass our abnormal psych class, but after that night he never spoke to me again.

Random thought on that note, though: I felt sorry for him one day when I gave him a copy of my notes for a lecture he missed, because we had discussed Depression diagnoses, Anxiety diagnoses, and then PTSD. Obviously, I had no need to write down a single thing when we got to PTSD. I wonder how he did on that section of the final...

 

[anni]

It's not all that random. You know you have PTSD when your friends look at you funny. Or maybe they do, do they? Possibly they do, or not, wait a minute is that a twitch or disgust, maybe they just have gas and you're making the whole thing up in your head? Maybe our friends are just all funny looking, where in heck's my Celexa, anyway?

 

[DharmaGirl]

Anni, that was so funny! I go through the same things!

You know you have PTSD when you pour dishwashing soap in your coffee cup and then stare at it stymied.

 

[Britt.f7]

When you end your conversations in the middle of a sentence and expect people to follow you. Maybe that isn't PTSD related but I can't remember a time I haven't been that way.

Just the other day, at my son's party I did that. Everyone in the room waited for what I was going to say next, but my head was already on to the next subject. My sister finished my sentence for me. My son said "mom you can't do that." But I told him he should be use to it and his aunt had no problem with knowing what I was going to say. Which she agreed.

How can one be so distracted yet so aware all in the same moment?

 

[JustBe]

@britt,

my son and I have whole conversations like that! We figured it was our Attention Deficit Disorder. We understand each other perfectly, but others are lost!

 

[safenow]

Sometimes even I can't figure out what I meant to say next, so I just move along. LOL. I've never had anyone who can finish my sentences. Not even my best friend and roommate of four years.

 

[DharmaGirl]

When you end your conversations in the middle of a sentence and expect people to follow you.

Lol, my son and I do that. My mom and best friend and I do that. I do think its the PTSD, I have done it for awhile!

 

[Britt.f7]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. A friend of mine pointed that out at a party a long time ago with friends that I also end sentences in mid sentence, and, later in the day pick right up where I left off! lol My husband also has a hard time with following me, as does one of my sons. I think, you've lived with me how long? Catch up! :laugh:

 

[Red Feather]

When you play this really cool song on the piano, and then forget it again. And then a few weeks later, you play it again, and then forget it again... :rolleyes:

 

[who am i kim]

When you wake up at 4am in the morning :sleep: and remember something PTSD related. You need to get out of bed now to write it down or you 'll forget it when it is wake up time.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

anni lol.