You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Jade-]

When someone walks in your office at work and you're so startled you throw the phone, hit your knee on the desk and hurt your back and want to crawl in a hole and die from embarrassment for your reaction while they're laughing at you

 

[OceanSpray]

When someone walks in your office at work and you're so startled you throw the phone, hit your knee on the desk and hurt your back and want to crawl in a hole and die from embarrassment for your reaction while they're laughing at you

Been there and oh man it’s horrible

 

[parrotthepolly]

When your brain blocks out all your traumatic memories for a couple of minutes but your nervous system is forcing you to look for threats and you're wondering why on Earth you're so anxious

 

[parrotthepolly]

When you dissociate enough that you're startled by the sound of your own breathing

 

[OceanSpray]

When you can’t tell if you’re terrible mood is because you physically don’t feel good or if you physically don’t feel good because you’ve mentally crashed.

 

[OceanSpray]

When you’re feeling low enough to remove yourself from the planet but don’t have enough energy to follow through.

 

[OceanSpray]

Is it paranoia?
Is it ptsd?
Is this an actual gut feeling?
“Just” anxiety?
Is it the stormy weather?
Is it remainder from the gummy I took earlier?


Why do I feel extremely hyper aware of every detail tonight? Why is it crawling over my skin in a way it doesn’t normally? Why does the random person hanging outside the gas station give me a gut reaction so hard I just left without getting out?

 

[parrotthepolly]

When you somehow gained muscle from constantly being in a fight or flight response. (Is this just me?)

 

[parrotthepolly]

Turning the light on during days where it's only partially dim to "see" better.
Then again, don't know if it's just me.

 

[OkKitten]

When it takes days of isolation to feel regulated enough to socialize but then you become overstimulated and realize you need more exposure but return to isolation instead.

 

[Freddyt]

It takes 40 years to go hey - this feels like trauma anniversary at the wrong time.....ah crap....

 

[Givrali]

You feel like your father is dying from cancer before your eyes in all the hard feelings. But your father died from said cancer 6 years ago.