You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Changing4Best]

Too funny, Monster, thanks for the laugh!

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you put on music that makes you feel good and you spend the morning singing to it. And then you hear your parents in the kitchen talking. And you hear them say "She's been singing all morning :O_o:" "I know. She's in a good mood :eek:". And instead of getting angry you just laugh to yourself.

 

[Changing4Best]

WHen you don't like to go out unless you have a ride, because there are stray dogs around and about.

 

[falling]

You spend all night awake trying to sleep and spend all day feeling sleepy trying to stay alert.

 

[JustBe]

Everyone else is planning holiday celebrations and you are relieved to have an open calendar for the next week...whew!

 

[rainy_daze]

@falling , that is spot on :sleep:. I'm learning a bit about sleep cycles just now, because they're so important.

Oh, you know you have PTSD...

When you're learning how to sleep properly ;).

When people say "Why could you not sleep? Why do you get insomnia?", and you know the list is too long so you just say "I've always been like that" :wtf:.

When you can't remember the last time you didn't have a nightmare, but you congratulate yourself on not letting them drag you down.

When you congratulate yourself on the strangest and simplest of things :happy:.

 

[ISupportHer]

You know you have PTSD when you view Santa as a stalker even though he only visits once a year.

Ha, ha, I post this each Christmas. :)

 

[NarcSis]

You wake up to a loud house shaking noise and spend the rest of the night laying there hugging your teddy in a death grip waiting for death to take you...as your husband snores next to you.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you hear your sister on speakerphone with your mom and she doesn't know you can hear her when she says "if you're going to talk about her take me off speakerphone" about you.

 

[Definitely..maybe]

When your family gets you a teddy and the movie Reign Over Me for Christmas.

Hahaha.

 

[Upside Down Eagle]

When you call someone, then it hits voicemail and you immediately get startled and hang up. Or when someone (like the doctors office) has a waiting track on the telephone, and they play a song alternated with the sentence "please hold on, you're the next caller". But the music is a trigger and sends you into a rabid fury, so you hang up anyway... and try to never call them again :confused:

 

[macca]

When you are startled by every movement...including the Infamous Drinking Bird that my son got my husband for Christmas LOL!