You Know You Have PTSD When...

[StarChild]

that you almost put face cream on your tooth brush

:roflmao::laugh:Um, well, maybe you could use your toothbrush as an ear-brush?... :wacky: - Ever saw the movie Paddington Bear? :wideeyed:

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you're hypervigilant enough that you type out and then delete an entire post for your trauma diary. Talking can be scary.

 

[Anrish]

When you cannot move forward because your mind and your body only want to move backwards and hide.

When you cannot fall asleep because memories hunt you - even in that place between sleep and being awake.

When you wake up and feel like crying and just getting up itself is already too much.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

:hug:

 

[Recovery4Me]

You know you have PTSD, when you are researching laws to prevent forcible medication, for your senior years.

You know you have PTSD and are among societies' mainstream propaganda- when they offer that your disability case may include sequential court ordered meds within this state.

When you drop the disability case...because poverty at least allows you the right to choose.

 

[Ronin]

When you (again) decide you don't have PTSD, bahjeez stop being nervous about people & planes alike, but the too different lives leave you feverish and emotionally ice. So back to where people care. Right. We all have PTSD. Shit, not escaping this, am I.

 

[intothelight]

When you space that you have an arm and a hand, and proceed to shut the car door on your own hand...:oops:

 

[Deleted member 29920]

You can hear a pin drop a hundred miles away, but your friends are like "I can't hear a thing."

 

[Ronin]

When being told to not be hypervig just induces a ragefit. No. You shut the f*ck up and don't even think of policing me.

When you keep reminding yourself of a friend's words, though 'You're fine, all those idiots are a reminder of anatomy you keep sayin' you don't remember'. More like toxicology, I'm not touching this filth.

 

[Anrish]

When you avoid people's eyes because you fear they will see that you are about to cry.

When your bad memories even follow you on your trails.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you go to sleep at 4am and you wake up for a second at 8am and decide it's too early to get up. And you fall back to sleep have a nightmare and wake up at 10am. And by 1:15pm you're ready for a nap.

 

[Ronin]

When you're ready for a nap any time you're alone, as people around = danger, don't sleep near an enemy if you can manage.

When... no dear head, we're not going there. f*cked sideways always half asleep state is a danger zone & mental dissolution. Established we're not going there.