You Know You Have PTSD When...

[deer_in_headlights]

(((((((((((((Albatross)))))))))))))

I believe you!

 

[angel2write]

Ok- some of these may be just me, but here goes...

You may have PTSD:

-when you "wake up" three blocks from your house, don't recognize any landmarks, panic, and then drive back and forth a few times until things start to look familiar again before heading for the grocery that is less than a mile from your home of two years.
- when you lose track of conversations because you've seriously been sitting there thinking about ways to take out (as in disable- not date) the person who is talking to you.
- when the only "person" you feel comfortable touching is your dog.
- when you have to hide your eyes or flee the room during Disney movies because they're too intense.
- when you keep pillows, blankets, snacks and stuffed animals in your closet for comfort times.
- when you feel like the world is going to seriously f#$%ing end because you can't find something.
- when you always sit with your back to the wall wherever you are.
- when you comfort yourself by trying to imagine all the ways a given situation could go wrong.
- when you always have an exit strategy for family gatherings.
- when you're constantly watching other people's eyes to gauge whether what you just said was socially acceptable or not.
- when you feel more comfortable sleeping under the bed.
- when you contemplate moving because you've alienated everyone in your current town and you need a fresh start.
- when placed in a room full of new people and forced to mingle, you unerringly gravitate to the only other person in the room who was molested when they were four.
- when normal people bore you.
- when you wonder if you're invisible.
- when you wish you were invisible.
- when people sincerely compliment you and you argue with them.
- when you think a Secret Santa swap is a diabolical plot to invade your privacy and personal space.
- when you've made chat at a party by describing how use common household items as lethal weapons or described intense medical procedures while eating and then wondered why everyone else looked uncomfortable.
- when you spend a lot of time wondering what you just did to make people look so uncomfortable.
- if you've ever decided to give up talking because of the above.
- if you've ever given serious thought to the question of whether you're human or not.

 

[alixipain]

- when you've made chat at a party by describing how use common household items as lethal weapons

Its a good thing I'm half way sane, can mix around 150+ household products to make explosives.

 

[way_back_when]

It takes an hour to find your blankets and sheets after you wake up in the morning.

 

[KP the nut]

You know you have PTSD when....... remembering to breathe is an achievement

 

[Philippa]

You know you have PTSD when:

You kick a hole in the wall and your foot gets stuck, and then the next morning you go to your disablilty support course and the teacher takes you through techniques on how to deal with aggressive clients who kick holes through the wall!

 

[justwannabeme]

Ya know ya got is when you can't watch the end of a hockey game when the score it really close. When you stand up to idiots with a knife and life goes just goes on, but you fall apart at roadkill!

 

[justwannabeme]

You start at the end of the newspaper, or read the ending of a book because you can't handle suprises and the anticipation would get you spinning. And you thing Garcia on Criminal Minds has the coolest job, but can't watch the show on TV.......can't fast forward to the end first!

 

[way_back_when]

You know you have PTSD when you get odd looks when you try to explain to friends you're a single parent. You don't actually have any 'kids', but your trauma therapist is insistent that you become a parent to your inner child.

 

[Philippa]

You know you have ptsd when you get up, get dressed and get yourself to work only to realize when you get there that it's a public holiday and what's more, you KNEW it was a public holiday, but somehow it just didn't click that public holiday means NO WORK...and you've done that at least twice before!

That happened to me this morning...I just got home.

 

[alixipain]

You know you have PTSD when bedtime for sleeping is when you body crashes.

 

[jewel]

Here's one that happened recently...

You know you have PTSD when you are sitting in a public rest room talking to your T and telling him your anxiety level was so high last night because you were angry at him at 3am but you were proud of yourself because you had a great conversation with him in your head and he said all the right things to you, thereby relieving your stress...the women in the rest room looks at you like you ar some kind of a nut job and you sit there acting completely normal because this is an every day occurrence.