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When you go on a holiday and think about how much explaining you'd have to do if border control were to search your bags, because of the ridiculous amount of antidepressants you have to take with you.
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BlackbirdSinging
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When all the girls are going out to one of your favorite places to shop and have lunch tomorrow. And they invited you to go too but all you can do is get nervous anxious and hypervigliant because one of the women is the mother of someone who abused you as a child. She's a close friend of the family and has been all of your life. Not only that her niece is going to be there too.
All you want to do is come up with some kind of reason to not go. But you struggle because you LOVE this place. And then you decide who's in control now. And nervous or not you are going to go because if you don't he still wins. And this is YOUR life and he no longer holds the reigns!
All you want to do is come up with some kind of reason to not go. But you struggle because you LOVE this place. And then you decide who's in control now. And nervous or not you are going to go because if you don't he still wins. And this is YOUR life and he no longer holds the reigns!
Upside Down Eagle
Diamond Member
When all the furniture in your house is pretty much break-proof, because you get tired after buying new stuff after breaking stuff in an anger fit;
When you worry about traveling abroad without anti-anxiety meds, they fall under the opium-laws and are therefore illegal without special permission;
When you can't watch certain movies, or listen in to certain conversations, about horror or torture because you know you'll relapse into flashbacks; when you feel sympathy for the "crazy" ptsd war veterans from war stories;
When going to the supermarket is like moving through enemy territory (has already been mentioned); when somebody accidentally or wilfully touches you and makes you jump, feeling like you might strangle them or run, run!!
When you want to talk to someone on Facebook about your troubles, but your troubles are way too heavy stuff for Facebook (specially considering the lack of privacy)
Haha, exactly.
When you worry about traveling abroad without anti-anxiety meds, they fall under the opium-laws and are therefore illegal without special permission;
When you can't watch certain movies, or listen in to certain conversations, about horror or torture because you know you'll relapse into flashbacks; when you feel sympathy for the "crazy" ptsd war veterans from war stories;
When going to the supermarket is like moving through enemy territory (has already been mentioned); when somebody accidentally or wilfully touches you and makes you jump, feeling like you might strangle them or run, run!!
When you want to talk to someone on Facebook about your troubles, but your troubles are way too heavy stuff for Facebook (specially considering the lack of privacy)
Haha, exactly.
BlackbirdSinging
Diamond Member
When your therapist who normally wants you to go out and do things tells you to NOT go to an event because it's too triggering.
BlackbirdSinging
Diamond Member
When you embarrass yourself in your own home in front of the cable guy because of your startle response :bag:.
You know you have PTSD when a trucker cuts you off on the highway, but you feel confident that you can defeat him in your Volkswagon.
When Chuck Woolery has less grey hair than you, and you're 20.
Sometimes if you're old too, it's great when you're so deaf that you freak out at a sudden sound that you had to see to believe.
When a cat jumping onto a bed at 3am is enough to send 8 of your lives to the pearly gates.
When your awesome new smartphone rings. I hate that phone.
When you miss an appointment regularly that is always scheduled on the same day, same time.. because it's all the same day, man.
When standing in the pharmacy line, people ask for your autograph because they think you're Michael J. Fox.
When you dye your hair, and it runs screaming off of your head calling you names.
When people ask if you've had a coffee and/or medication in the morning before they get to the "Good morning." part.
When sometimes you wish some idiot would break into your house when you're there, so you can finally throw down without going to jail.
When your bumper sticker says, "My Other Car is a I'VE KILLED BEFORE back off..."
When in a heated argument, you put yourself in an adult time-out, and then lock yourself in the bathroom and giggle because they think you're upset in there and won't bug you for at least 5 minutes. This is a good time to floss, I've found.
When Chuck Woolery has less grey hair than you, and you're 20.
Sometimes if you're old too, it's great when you're so deaf that you freak out at a sudden sound that you had to see to believe.
When a cat jumping onto a bed at 3am is enough to send 8 of your lives to the pearly gates.
When your awesome new smartphone rings. I hate that phone.
When you miss an appointment regularly that is always scheduled on the same day, same time.. because it's all the same day, man.
When standing in the pharmacy line, people ask for your autograph because they think you're Michael J. Fox.
When you dye your hair, and it runs screaming off of your head calling you names.
When people ask if you've had a coffee and/or medication in the morning before they get to the "Good morning." part.
When sometimes you wish some idiot would break into your house when you're there, so you can finally throw down without going to jail.
When your bumper sticker says, "My Other Car is a I'VE KILLED BEFORE back off..."
When in a heated argument, you put yourself in an adult time-out, and then lock yourself in the bathroom and giggle because they think you're upset in there and won't bug you for at least 5 minutes. This is a good time to floss, I've found.
CourageofSnow
Silver Member
You know you have PTSD when ..you have to ask other people if they can smell or hear what you are smelling or hearing..
When your startle response has everyone tiptoeing around you at work..
When your startle response has everyone tiptoeing around you at work..
BlackbirdSinging
Diamond Member
When someone sneezes and it triggers your startle response.
BlackbirdSinging
Diamond Member
When your therapist calls you to check on you the day after therapy. But you hadn't called her or left any messages for her to call you.
zaniara
Diamond Member
when you see others interacting everywhere(on forums as well as in real life) in so many ways, seemingly without much effort and they also seem to find it easy to find the words to say/things to do in that interaction, while you are struggling hard to cope with a minimum of that amount of interaction and get so tired you have to retreat and rest for hours and end up crying because you feel so hopeless. Because the interaction always fails eventually, even if it seems to go well for a short while. (And you feel like a person who just don't know the social codes at all.)
when your daughter is starting school and you get freaked out and stressed out when you understand how much interaction you need to have with so much different people now if you are to be a good parent.
when you tell your daughter to be quiet when she start chatting with strangers in a friendly way since you don't want to "bother them"(when it's really because you're not comfortable with the interaction)
when you feel so lonely, but all you want to do is to retreat and isolate because the interaction with others is causing so much pain
when your daughter is starting school and you get freaked out and stressed out when you understand how much interaction you need to have with so much different people now if you are to be a good parent.
when you tell your daughter to be quiet when she start chatting with strangers in a friendly way since you don't want to "bother them"(when it's really because you're not comfortable with the interaction)
when you feel so lonely, but all you want to do is to retreat and isolate because the interaction with others is causing so much pain
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