You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Changing4Best]

When a nightmare is upsetting to the point that it haunts you.

 

[goingonhope]

You know you have Ptsd when - Fear and Anxiety, prefer and select you too, to be one of the strictest, overbearing and restrictive parents in the world to.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you are wide awake at 2 in the morning and wondering why you can't sleep. And you have been awake for at least an hour.

 

[Britt.f7]

When it is difficult to leave your house, even to go into your yard.

 

[LaraGeel]

Mmm, I have to be careful here, but, knowing myself :

1 - I am proud I can kill to survive (cause you dig your own hole in front of my little toes)

2 - You can't stop a loco (so go away please) - The PTSD anger can be a long train ... flashing by ....

3 - Even people tend to see me shy : But I can be a murder-machine (How is that possible ?).

4 - A fourth time I've hit a mirror, 1/3 broke off. Angry and sad cause I broke it, due ... anger attacks in me.

5 - You fear any answer, even you did nothing wrong saying your opinion or your free speech on letter to others.

The results of blackmailing and threatening to take something worth-full away in your life as My New Life, Income for having no work, or hearing when they put me in jail : " We will never visit you " - By sister and dad ... Cause they are not fighters for their rights as I am.

 

[Changing4Best]

...when you hear sirens, you automatically get anxiety.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you walk into the bank and tell yourself as you are going through the front door that you need a roll of quarters and a printout of your checking account. You ask first for the quarters, writing a check for them. Then after receiving the quarters you place them in your bag, zip it up and get ready to leave, when suddenly you realize you didn't ask for the printout. The poor teller has to reopen your account to get it for you. Thankfully she is pleasant about it as you tell her that your mind just went BLANK.

Then, at the grocery, in the checkout line, you are asked for our discount card. It is a little plastic thing on your key ring. You pull out the key ring and start looking at each key, asking yourself which metal key is the one he wants. You suddenly realize it is the little plastic thing and share with him why it took so long. Thankfully he laughs with you.

I am so glad I live in a town with patient and loving folks in it. Just as a side note, our town has 2600 folks in it and 12 churches.

 

[Hashi]

When you set up a file for a new client at work, called Daniel - I'll change the surname and say Daniel Smith. But on the label you write "Denial Smith".

 

[rainy_daze]

When you double check what year it is... In March. You know you've got it wrong before. You feel relief when you've remembered the correct year. :depressed:.

 

[Changing4Best]

Last year, speaking of years, I was writing a check and almost started to write 1985, when it occurred to me that it wasn't 1985, but I could not think of what year it was. I dumbly told the lady behind the counter about this, got an amazed look from her when then she told me it was 2013. SIGH....

 

[Spiderallis]

When the mail carrier knows to tap on your door every day to let you know it's just them, no need to rush out and see what moved or made a sound.

 

[Introspective]

Wonderful thread!

You know you have ptsd when your traumatherapist gives you the appointment at the end of the day ”so we can use a little extra time”, and you feel thankful and happy for getting the extra time. And really, really broken for needing it.