You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Anrish]

You get a shock when people ask you if you want to join them for a cup of coffee.

 

[Ronin]

You're excited about a nightmare because it was the life you lived in, unlike the grey now.
And subsequently: You have to remind yourself that logic is complete logical fallacy with a cherry on top.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

When your daughter tells you her plans for the next day, and when you wake up you panic because she is gone and you do not know where she is and you make several phone calls to her. I must have blocked it out.

 

[Ronin]

When posts about people' children remind you of times you had yours. Sigh and do I have some booze left checks ensue.

 

[Changing4Best]

When folks talk about their grandchildren and even show you photos, you cringe because you had nothing but miscarriages and then you feel awful because you get anxiety whenever you think of the fact that there is no one available to help you out in your old age. (And you are a senior citizen now).

 

[Ellabella44]

when you go to an animal shelter to get information about volunteering and end up freaking out because you and the people that work there are alone and they are focused on interacting and listening to you.

 

[jaccat]

When you are considering joining a yoga class to relax and then realise that trying to tell your body to relax in front of people is going to have the opposite effect:(

 

[Ronin]

When yoga is one of those awesome things you gave up on because as nice exercise it is and as deep phil behind it, your body just doesn't /get/ it's just for health and not for survival.

 

[Anrish]

@jaccat I'm feeling with you in this. I was thinking about joining a group for climbing - you cannot do it alone...but I'm too scared of being in groups.

...when you feel nervous walking along the street with a good friend because you're sure that you look awkward next to him.

 

[Changing4Best]

When you see notices on Facebook and elsewhere that tell you that Social Security Disability will be lowered by 20% by the end of 2016 and you keep having anxiety attacks, thinking about how bad it is going to be and what you will have to cut out of your budget each month, and there just won't be enough for ANYTHING but absolute necessities and you just don't know how you will solve this dilemma.

 

[Brad1980]

going to the store and you are in the parking lot looking for your car and you realize you took the bus because you didn't want to deal with the stress of driving

 

[Brad1980]

you keep a glass of ice on the night table so you can grab it to bring yourself back to the present when the flashbacks start