You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Ronin]

My brain and my mind block anything else this weekend.

Hopefully next week is easier on you, Anrish?
Can you have more pauses / time for yourself / time for relaxing to the days?
(Thinking of you).

 

[Recovery4Me]

When your T thinks he is gently breaking it to you - as you are properly diagnosed (but again) with severe PTSD. Then in your empathy for the work he is now faced to task during your sessions:rolleyes:, you pat him on the arm to comfort him as he seems rather stressed about it. :roflmao:

 

[Ocean5]

he seems rather stressed about it. :roflmao:

When p-doc/t that use to specialize in trauma tells you... you really need to be seeing a ptsd or trauma specialist several times a week, and that medicine was not the answer for me. That I needed a specialist in ptsd or trauma treatment.

Yet given refills of medicines I was on....told to continue. After that session never went back.

 

[Heather]

You have a good day and you still fill like sh*t.

 

[Rosewater]

When you're knee deep in the shit of your life & every shovelful you deal with gets replaced by two more. And you keep on shovelling day after day because you know that one day you'll have cleared enough to move on in freedom.

 

[Ronin]

And you keep on shovelling day after day

There goes my hero. Strength, brother.

When you're terrified of posting on forums because you're so happy all them people are alive and you'd again slide to infantile joy over that sole fact, and you forget what was it you meant to discuss entirely, because lookit, them guys are still good enough to care about that people bullshit! :D

 

[Sandstone]

You want to read a section of a book about Dissociation, but can't find it because you think you hid it when i got it scary, and you have no idea what that hiding place might be

 

[ladee]

When you could care less if you have money for rent, as long as you have money for cigarettes !!:tup:

 

[Ronin]

When you quit smoking, still got no money, and on top of that are now grumpy about lack of copin' mechanism you need to cope with :D

(But references of smokes still make you happy, so imaginary smokes do the purpose of the real ones just fine. ;) )

 

[Anrish]

@Cashew Thank you. My problem is that I cannot deal with freetime.

I know that I need more time to rest - but as soon as I've got nothing to do - I also panic. :(

When you never know how of if to make eye contact when you pass someone on the floor...

 

[Marie E.]

(But references of smokes still make you happy, so imaginary smokes do the purpose of the real ones just fine. ;) )

@Cashew You ever think of vaping with electronic cigarettes? I have one and it is quite pleasurable.

 

[Ocean5]

When you never know how of if to make eye contact when you pass someone on the floor...

When you've gone from senior manager dealing with people everyday from managers under you, employees, and customers. Strong leadership position. To same problem with eye contact...or realizing you just had 10 minute conversation with property manager - yet never made eye contact..... :(