You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Anrish]

When you need to do Yoga before you can go to a work outing because it freaks you out to be surrounded by many people all day without a chance to retreat...

 

[Friday]

When the best way you can think to explain something to someone involves showing them a scene from The Walking Dead :meh:

 

[jaccat]

When you can hold two conflicting thoughts in your head at the same time and believe them both.

 

[Ronin]

When oy, shows, goodness.

You're at explaining multiple captivity issues & why the f*ck does being forced into any activity resembling work make you so livid by sitting people with watching Arrow.

& When you're at 'Nevermind. I get you don't get it. Freedom is for granted, in your world.'

 

[Friday]

When you are watching this disorder eat someone you care deeply about, and know there's jack all you can do to stop that. :cry::mad::arghh; C'mon motherf*cker. Up & out the other side. I know you can f*cking do it.

 

[Friday]

When the new guy keeps making comments about how paranoid you seem.

LMAO...

...When other people noticing how paranoid you are means you've relaxed too much / need to be more paranoid. :cautious: :shifty:

&

When "A comfortable level of paranoia in your life." Is a life's goal. :bag: No. Really.

 

[Ronin]

When you have no words to the above two posts, and instead have the thing you goddamn loathe. Sympathy move it, you're not effing useful.

 

[Ronin]

When you hate sympathy because it is too close to powerlessness.

And you don't DO powerlessness.
Except for (Thousand Areas Of Your Life) ... nevermind. You don't do powerlessness.

 

[Ellabella44]

when you wonder if @FridayJones will be starting a ptsd boot camp soon. :lol:

When you consider making a list of distorted cognitions and dropping a huge dictionary on it, but are stopped by considering if you will startle from the noise, and if lifting the book will hurt like hell because fibro just joined your symptom party.

 

[Friday]

Sympathy move it, you're not effing useful...

:sneaky: We'll chase it away with laughter & dancing madly around the bonfire, coffee & cool breezes at dawn.

 

[Ronin]

Hell yes to mad dances.

And all the other things.
#TeamCampFriday
#TeamIAwareDisAin'tTwitter.

 

[Friday]

when you wonder if @FridayJones will be starting a ptsd boot camp soon. :lol:...

Funny you should mention that... If I can ever get my own shit squared away enough to get people smarter than me involved to build it, run it, maintain it? Actually, yes.

I want something. It's not there. Track down all the people I want to make it for me. Set them on it.... Is sort of an accidental life skill.

Bring talented people together & magic happens.

((Prepare yourself for jarhead math: It's something sort of along the lines of half old school British club, half Olympic training facility, half military-commune (just ignore the screeching of your brain), half trauma treatment facility. A whole helluva lot of fun.))