You Know You Have PTSD When...

[silkleaves]

When you go to pour yourself a glass of wine...uncork the bottle, take out your wine glass, fill it with almond milk, put the wine bottle in the fridge, the milk on the wine shelf... and its not until the next day when you find the full wine bottle..in the fridge and the white stuff in your wine glass that you put it all together and realize you drank milk instead of wine last night, and did not even notice the difference.

 

[Barberian]

You read a post on a PTSD forum from someone who is self diagnosing a trivial matter and calling it PTSD, and you want to reach through the screen, grab the by collar and shout at them "YOU DON'T WANT PTSD"!

 

[goingonhope]

You know you have PTSD when you're able to find and communicate enough of, or the whole traumatic truth, along with your symptoms, clearly or often enough, and your doctor then diagnoses you with PTSD, .....and tells you so.

One way to be reassured and/or assured.

 

[Deleted member 19804]

When you have trouble watching your country's team at the soccer world cup, because one of its players looks like the guy who raped you.

 

[Nighthawk]

When you have been working on getting better for over 20 years and you still havent gotten it right.:eek:

 

[Mercy]

When I in a size/age distortion and have to ask my H if I am holding a teaspoon or a tablespoon. I can't tell.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

When I am afraid that I am going to have a PTSD flair and blow up at a dumb person.

 

[tired of the fight]

@anni,

You cracked me up. So funny because I can sooo relate! :) I love this. Keep it coming. The other day I told my therapist, I just love it when the anxiety and ptsd are holding hands and skipping through my head. :) I made myself laugh. Not sure what he thought. LOL!

 

[Mercy]

When my H STILL doesn't get it. He will come up behind me at the sink which is in a corner. Then he reaches over me to get something out of a cupboard. He really should have waited a minute. He's just lucky that I didn't react with a roundhouse slap on the cheek and a knee to his whatevers. This is after 20 tears of being in and out of therapy. Of course, I had a serious panic attack as I ran away to my clothes closet.

Oh, that's rather surprising. I am an habitual one who freezes and I am thinking or reacting with fight. Huh!?

 

[Changing4Best]

You have to have a private talk with your pastor because you think someone who is involved in most of the groups you are involved in does not like you and you don't know what to do about it. In fact, you think there are a lot of folks that don't like you!

 

[J_trustno1]

When you keep getting back to square one and thinking when this loop will end. When you're in this mist of life. When you constantly want your abusers to confront you regardless of having countless attempts to ask for justice, you keep trying in a hope that someday they will suffer the same pain you are suffering every moment of your life. And you keep wasting your time over and over again even knowing that you won't get anywhere in that loophole.

 

[Mercy]

When you constantly want your abusers to confront you regardless of having countless attempts to ask for justice, you keep trying in a hope that someday they will suffer the same pain you are suffering every moment of your life. And you keep wasting your time over and over again even knowing that you won't get anywhere in that loophole.

Maybe this is a good topic to bring to your T. For me, confrontation with your abusers usually doesn't work. You just don't get to hear the words you want and need. Vengence, as in hopeing they will suffer the same pain, IMHO poisons us. It creates a deeper and deeper well which fills with bile causing you more pain.

I hope I haven't been too blunt. I suffer too.