You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Changing4Best]

When a snow day away from your usual activity of the day causes you to stay in your recliner under a blanket all day and worry about the future of your life.

When things in the news make your mind think of all the worst possible scenarios for the future. And you have a headache besides....

 

[myheart]

@Radise I have to mention that the things you mentioned sound like my OCD. Mine is a 'germ phobia'. I believe that my OCD was caused by 'controlling what you can in an uncontrollable world'.

 

[Upside Down Eagle]

@Kim500 I do have OCD tendencies, they actually have been worse, but I am familiar with anxious hand-washing, not touching of things that others have touched, and a relative fear of bodily fluids (but I'll spare you the details about that). I treat it the same as a lot of my other triggers...

I don't know for sure if I have it or not. Doctors have misdiagnosed me time and again, and I'm tired of them.

 

[myheart]

@Radise I have been in the 'mental' system for many years, and the diagnoses have changed throughout the years. But, the final one I have now is OCD, and I accept that because I agree with that. I remember my first OCD experience. (I don't want to upset you, but sharing with others seems good.) The first was when I was in the street where I lived, and I was with my Mom. (Probably 6-10 years old.) I actually scrouched down, got up, put my neck back and stretched out my arms out of nowhere. (My Mom asked me what I was doing and I had no answer.)

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you snap at someone who is not being irritable because they were "getting irritated with the situation" but it was really you that were getting irritated by the situation, not them.

 

[myheart]

@SheilaKathy Good point!!! Sometimes it's hard to see clearly what's going on. (I still don't know in my own life.)

 

[Changing4Best]

I guess I projected my feelings onto her and then thought she was being that feeling. Does that make sense? @Kim500

 

[myheart]

@SheilaKathy That makes very much sense...that it is why it is so difficult to figure out what is going on sometimes! For example: Is this the way this person is treating me, or is it my way of projecting onto them how I feel about myself? Deep Stuff!!! You're awesome.

 

[The Albatross]

You know you have PTSD when you consider some uncomfortable adversities "the small stuff". (As in don't sweat the small stuff...)

 

[jaccat]

When you feel ill but it doesn't even occur to you to take something for it because why would you make yourself feel better?

 

[Changing4Best]

When you have a routine of reading your Bible every morning and then don't do it a few days, you fall off the rails and become some other person, until you get back to reading it every day again. And that person you are when you don't read it every day makes you feel really uncomfortable.

 

[Anrish]

When you feel like crying because you can't block all the pressure and stress around you.