You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Ronin]

finally make sense. :'(

And when it makes them more awful, because you finally realize the dangers really, really weren't just in your head, and there's been evidence for it all over the place you just minimized because you had no time to deal with it.

When you think of it as nother bridge you're burning. That's a good thing. That's glorious fireworks.

 

[PTSDfree]

When this thread is the funniest, saddest, and most relatable thing you've read all day.

 

[Anrish]

When suddenly...you cannot focus and calm down and you know you could focus and do stuff better when you calm down but you cannot manage to do so...:banghead::banghead::banghead:

 

[HypnoticallyChaotic]

When you can't remember the log in details for a forum you visited several times daily for a few months straight

 

[Ronin]

You fall back on coping mechanisms of a few years ago.

Your only problem with that is you're someone else.
Those coping mechanisms were for someone else.

Fine. Nevermind. Reverse empathing and friending ghosts. I can do that.
Eyes on the futures, one foot in front of the other, and again, until you're home.

 

[Anrish]

You see licence plates with the same letters like people who abused you used them...and you get tense and feel terrified.

 

[Gadgie]

When you don't seem to fit in?

 

[Deleted member 28403]

When almost every problem has a root in trauma

 

[Ronin]

^ There.

Also thank you for putting it so succintly, Sael. :)

 

[Panda Bear]

When something falls off the microwave and crashes to the floor and you stand frozen and unable to speak, in horror that you will be hurt. Followed by a flood of tears.....

 

[Ronin]

When you could make long lists of bizarre things you were hurt over.
What bothers you more is still what others were hurt for. You don't recall yourself, but remember who you watched, listened to, thought of, or wanted to Keep.

When you feel too guilty and ashamed to post in a thread like this.
Talk to y'all later after guilt agrees with the more rational persuation it wasn't my fault & I should keep on living. ;)

 

[Rosewater]

When you feel like a ghost - living in a parallel universe/different reality to everyone else