You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Changing4Best]

Inviting a new friend into your apartment and being grossed out when he tries to hug you. (My door is chained this time). I will not invite him in ever again, God willing. (I have trouble saying NO, as the word was beaten out of me when I was a toddler). Locking the door is a great reminder for me that I am saying NO!

 

[Ghostybear73]

You mention your guinea pigs had babies and are told, "yeah, that was two days ago and we already talked about it"......doh!!!

 

[Ronin]

You run threats against you through a list of the ones you've heard already, curse the person for not being creative enough, and register them emotionally as threats only hours later.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you have to go to the skin doctor tomorrow for a skin check (to check all your moles because you have had a pre-cancerous one before) and you are clenching your teeth all day long so badly that your jaw aches and sometimes you have a headache too. He is a male doctor and there is no female doctor who is a dermatologist anywhere nearby where you live other than him. (You live way out in the mountains, so the closest one who is a female probably is like 3 hours away). [And you would have to take public transportation].

 

[Recovery4Me]

When you read the news forum, Nov link in ScienceDaily for helping those in PTSD and you stumble on these words from the Trigger' for stress processes discovered in the brain

"...perhaps in people suffering from mental illness such as depression, burn out or posttraumatic stress disorder, but also in cases of chronic stress brought on by pain."
https://www.myptsd.com/threads/trigger-for-stress-processes-discovered-in-brain.49189/

And then you stress, obsessively reading it over and over -trying to measure the comas to see how far away the PTSD is from the M word...like it will save you from your diagnosis if it is just far enough. :meh:

 

[Changing4Best]

@Recovery4Me PTSD is not a mental illness, but often folks think it is. They are not the experts. As far as I know, by professionals, it is not considered to be so. (If I am wrong on this, someone who knows better, please let me know).

 

[Recovery4Me]

@SheilaKathy :) Hey I will take it! Just fussing & trying humor to make light over my stress and the expert post in ScienceDaily.:clown:

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you wake up in the morning feeling triggered but not remembering a nightmare. And you notice that during the night you apparently pulled out one of your earrings in your sleep. And then you're glad you can't remember whatever dream it was that made you feel triggered when you woke up.

 

[Ellabella44]

when you chat for a while the night before , being silly making up funny t shirts about ptsd, and you and another person making them up cant remember what you said was on your t shirts you both made up.

 

[Ghostybear73]

When your anxiety has anxiety. :D

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you have trouble hearing someone, but are too embarrassed to ask them to repeat themselves at all.

 

[Anrish]

...when you feel grateful for things other people do for you because no one else has done this before for you - and the people are totally surprised because they don't get it why you're so lucky about a small nice gesture.