You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Mee]

When your last nights of summer are spent in hyper vigilant insomnia, literally until the cows come home in the morning.

 

[Mee]

You read the ‘things you feel like to saying to your therapist but probably never will thread’ and realise you simply aren’t contained enough to not say what you feel to your therapist. ?

 

[ChildofGod]

I have unknown triggers until I recognize more of them. And that is good for me, so I can work on reacting differently. Also so I can sort my life out more.
(I hate saying the word trigger, ughh)
I was watching something and I saw the same feather that someone close to me wore on the side of his hat. And judging by my reaction, it was negative. But that is all I know.

I miss nature and I miss things that I stored away in my mind. That I haven't been safe enough to feel/remember or have the courage to recognize the truths. It is a sharp pain.

I will be able to enjoy those things in the future without the negative connotations.

 

[Ronin]

When you read No rights whatsoever, and just laugh.

Thought didnt go hospitals in some first world country or the other, either.

When... NVM, music, in all the political rants you have, music makes more sense, rock is as adorable in Latin America as in Asia.

 

[ChildofGod]

Taking the ACE test was depressing for me, like my name getting drawn from the world's unluckiest Lottery machine.

 

[Lucycat]

your husband asks you if you liked Elvis tunes.. and firstly you cannot speak, then cry and the only words are 'my childhood'

 

[bellbird]

When your computer screen going from *well-lit* to *dim*, due to inactivity, makes you jump.
Guess we're having one of those days then, huh?

 

[Gs172003]

When your computer screen going from *well-lit* to *dim*, due to inactivity, makes you jump.
Guess we're having one of those days then, huh?

I jumped the other day from people passing me on a trail....( went so far as to yell Jesus!)
From the front.
Good Lord lol

 

[Ronin]

When the happiest moment of a day is you stopped rolling already, a few days after that you managed to get home, and its the least of whats pissing you off.

Helloo, people that couldn't take my calls, I'm looking atcha.

But on the bright sides, its fricking sunny, not raining anymore.
On the other hilarious news... its just (literal) Tuesday.

 

[bellbird]

When you've just earned your prescription subsidy card for the fourth time in four years :laugh:
(The NZ government fully subsidises any further 'typical' (like, non-obscure ones) prescriptions once you have had 20 in a calendar year).

I mean, there have to be some perks to this darned disorder. And if you can't find 'em, you can at least try and make 'em. <shrug>

 

[Ronin]

And if you can't find 'em, you can at least try and make 'em.

Thats the spirit. :tup:

 

[TruthSeeker]

-When you love your bed and stuffed animals, way too, too much......
-When you see your helpful neighbor mow your tall grassy yard w/o asking.....while you sit in bed, peek out the window, embarrassed and just let him-and are grateful.....grass is down for another week
-When you won't cook anything (and the cook is ready and willing) but no part of you will clean up the mess-and we don't like bugs-.
_When your artsy part hates art therapy because it is a dissociative part that doesn't do art in the company of others and all the while the artsy part is trying to create while the art therapist is asking personal questions to which the artsy part gives hand signals and head shakes.....art therapy was pure hell with someone running their gums while I'm working hard to think.