You Know You Have PTSD When...

[void]

When your abdominal muscles tighten and twist with every task you do, like cut a tomato or fold towels(when alone btw)

Why? b/c for every simple task you did there was yelling, criticism, staring, standing over the shoulder....always bracing for the next explosion.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

When your evening thoughts are about different words to use for a person that was raped...

Rape victim, raped person, rapee... Anything else?

 

[Ronin]

Ask them, @Saelben. If about non-hypothetical people. And definitely not rapee. Victim or survivor are about the closer to soft terms you can get for that, I'm thinking.

 

[Ronin]

When your abdominal muscles tighten and twist with every task you do

& When you are happy feeling your muscles, no matter what they are doing or not doing what you want them doing at the moment... because it means you finally started feeling something else but pain.

The other weeks it was 'Ha, pain. I aware enough of needs, improvement. Pain -> Manage that. And don't wreck yourself more by acting dissociated.'

 

[Deleted member 28403]

@Cashew
Nah, this is a sorta hyptohethical thought, just wondering what could be used. Rapee just came to my mind

 

[goingonhope]

You know you have Ptsd when, while living in the present you're swallowed by the past and while weakened and/or weak from this, one's ability to communicate clearly and honestly; strive; protect and defend themselves (and loved ones) in the present, if necessary, is absorbed into the past; past traumas and with all its potential for additional grief, loss, poor health and dissatisfaction. :wtf:

 

[Sideways]

When an apparently sane adult tells you, in all seriousness, to have a conversation with the imaginary 12 year old you that is apparently sitting on the chair in front of you...:confused:

She's not really there. The chair is empty. I thought not hallucinating was meant to be a good thing:cautious:

 

[Ronin]

When you wish to go back to hallucinating.

It hurt less than them not being with you.

But you hold the truth higher than the lies, and lies as valuable only if they protect the truth, so grief, rage, sadness and ideation, Move.

 

[Anrish]

When you have a nice chat with a coworker but still feel...out of place...

 

[Ladyghosthunter]

When everyone around you is the a-hole at you.....

 

[Ladyghosthunter]

You're an empath and start to have psychic (not psycho) visions...(I'm serious. People who have had trauma are empaths which makes us sensitive to what and who is around us. You can tell when someone lies to you, etc. I am a seer.)

 

[Ronin]

When you have psychic visions of psychos...

And it still does not help you either get ready or avoid them. So just the usual My life is a trainwreck that also decided to be a shipwreck disclaimer.