You know you have PTSD when you won't go see a film "just in case" it upsets you in some way:
You decided against going to see the new Lone Ranger movie because you heard it has a Trigger in it.
:D good joke. I try to screen films, which sounds mad. There's certain things I don't want to happen in a film, and if there is a potential one of the three things will happen in the film, I don't go. Sometimes the screening thing I do doesn't work, and I end up in a state while the credits are on (screen isn't the correct word, but I can't think of what word describes what I do). Still, I'm human, what can I say? I'm sure lots of people cry at the end of films in the cinema :eek:.
You know you have PTSD when you ignore your basic care needs out of fear:
...when the nightlight burns out and you have to wait until morning to get up and go potty!
My T was saying that is classed as "self-abuse", Sheila, if you don't go pee when you need to. Even if it's because it's dark and you really don't want to wander about in the dark. I recommend a back-up torch next to the night light, and always going when you need to :). I don't want to verge off-topic, but I hope your service dog is working out for you Sheila. I'm a cat person, and somehow I don't think cats would enjoy the training programme.
You know you have PTSD when you hear yourself going "Oh, OK, let's talk about this next time because I'm done now", but you still have half your counselling session to go. Or when you get your T to write out how many sessions are left and explain basic mathematics to you, and she says "It was silly to think you would have understood what I was saying there because you were in your trauma brain", and you actually know what she means because you cannot understand a lot of information when you're upset :confused::rolleyes:.
