You Know You Have PTSD When...

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you're hanging up the laundry you washed yesterday and you start looking for a specific shirt. And you realize that even after you'd remembered you'd forgotten to put that first load of laundry in the washer yesterday you also ended up leaving the second load in the dryer. Over night.

 

[Definitely..maybe]

When your family is being so nice to you that it makes you paranoid to ask, 'are you mad at me?' While they hand you a gift. And then you wonder if they're dying because they're being too nice.

When family/friends tell you before you can say anything they aren't mad at you. 'I hope you're having a good day! Love you..and no I'm not mad at you!'

Don't know if that's ptsd or if I'm just crazyyyy!

 

[Changing4Best]

@Definitely..maybe There are negative thinking patterns to PTSD one of which can be that a person always fears for the worst in situations, and this sounds like that to me, but you would have to look at other situations and see if you have that same attitude in them too. Like in your work, do you often think that it will be regarded as not good by your boss, even when he or she later says it is good (or hands you a similar job, which would mean that your last work was acceptable). How about if you go out shopping for something you have never bought before, do you think to yourself that you probably won't be able to find it, or do you think you will? You get the idea?

 

[Suzetig]

When you have a good day at work, get lots done and still cry all the way home.

 

[Changing4Best]

OUCH!

 

[Suzetig]

I know, this week I've wavered between thinking I'm probably making a big deal out of nothing (nothing to do with trying to avoid dealing with stuff, honest...) and thinking I'm really quite unwell. I do know I'm really quite unwell and just need to name that when I see my T next. Easy! Not.

 

[Changing4Best]

@Suzetig The last time I didn't tell something like that to my T, I had a suicide attempt that nearly took my life. Be SURE to tell your T. Be brave. You can do it.

 

[Suzetig]

I will, thanks. No matter how I dress it up, I need to deal with this.

 

[Hashi]

When there are two visitors at work to see the Managing Director and no-one (including the Managing Director) is around so you have to greet them. You ask their names, which they provide, and one second later you realise that you haven't taken this in and couldn't say what their names are if someone offered you a million pounds.

You weigh up your options... getting someone to deal with them is going to require knowing who in the world they are. You have no idea who in the world they are. It's 5 hours till going home time and someone needs to deal with them before then.

You decide to come clean, and you tell the visitors that you're going to get a notebook. You come back with it and apologise and ask for their names again. In a kindly way, they tell you slowly and carefully. You write it down. You decide not to consider what they must think of you.

You then ask if they'd like tea or coffee, and one of them would like tea with milk and no sugar. You write this down in your notebook (ha! not risking that again!) You then enquire if the other would like tea, coffee, milk, sugar... they glance at your notes and say kindly that they'll have exactly what the first one is having.

 

[Deleted member 19804]

When your T recommends you a psychiatrist she knows, who has helped a lot of her patients and provides very thorough care for them.. And you decline the offer, just because it's a man.

 

[ghotiff]

just because it's a man.

Gosh I laughed at this.

I get on with men really well, but put me in this type of setting and I run.

 

[Changing4Best]

@Snowwhite I specifically asked for a woman therapist from my MD for her recommendation, and she gladly gave me a list of 6 of them, if I recall. I chose at random and it has worked out beautifully.