You Know You Have PTSD When...

[JustBe]

When even 'Good' days are booby trapped. *sigh*

 

[Changing4Best]

When you are afraid to call a friend to express your condolences because her husband died, just nerves I guess. She'd been getting a lot of calls so I felt that maybe my call was not needed, but my offer to be there for her if she needed to talk, she thanked me for, so all was not lost! I am sad about the death though, which is normal I think. He was a friend too.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When people stand too close to you and you start to feel anxious and then impatient and then even angry. And you want to snap at them and ask them to move back.

When unexpected changes in even small things make you angry.

When you pick up the remotes to the tv and you accidentally turn the volume on first without realizing it before the tv screen goes on. And then you're startled and jump when you suddenly hear a woman's voice in the room.

 

[Changing4Best]

When a man keeps moving toward you as the two of you talk and you keep moving backwards, until you are up against a wall before it occurs to you to tell him to get out of your face (This was supposedly a friendly conversation, but the game he was playing sure wasn't)!

 

[rainy_daze]

When you cry easily at the sad parts in movies, and you love a good vengeance movie.

When you can sense something bad is going to happen in a TV programme or movie, and decide it's best to leave the room before it happens. Or cover your eyes and/or ears, and ask if it's over :eek:.

When you don't realise you're talking really loudly or answering someone in a mumble.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you get an anxiety attack every time you hear a siren.

 

[Deleted member 10686]

You know you have PTSD when a car pulls on to your street and your immediate reaction is to duck and cover.

 

[Maggiemay]

... 18 months after your symptoms were at their worst, your left traumatised by the constant flashbacks and nightmares and frightened to change drugs, even though they're no longer working for you as don't want to go back to that hell...

 

[Pencil]

@Maggiemay: Yes, I've also thought that it is ironic that with PTSD one is traumatized by the symptoms

 

[Maggiemay]

Soo true... It was absolute hell!!! :( Thankfully things have settled, although shitting myself shout med change causing symptoms to rear their head...

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you have the symptoms of something that are listed on WebMD and automatically assume the worst.

 

[Changing4Best]

... you are in a doctor's examination room and have just completed your examination. The room is empty and now it is time to change back into your cloths. You take off the paper gown they gave you to wear, turn around and find the waste container and go to step on the pedal to open it, when you FREEZE and your mind tells you, "Wait! There could be someone in there and they would see you naked!!!" so you look at the size of this waste container and it would barely fit an infant in it! Finally you decide on that basis that it would be safe to open it and place your used gown in it.