You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Anrish]

When you perceive yourself as weak and / or heartless when you distance yourself from other persons' :poop:...

 

[Ronin]

When you perceive yourself as heartless when you try to get close to people.

Acutely aware of all the ways you could hurt them, or have hurt others in the past, or someone else hurt them while you didn't do nearly enough, or did more than enough and it wasn't enough, or --- Ok, anxiety stops my philosophy.

Thank you, anxiety. Dinosaurs dying out indeed wasn't my fault.

 

[Kallisti]

When you silently freak out because your usual chair in the waiting room is GONE, and you now have to sit opposite another waiting patient. Imagining the other person waiting being much worse off than yourself isn't calming you down, so you stare into your phone and pretend like your really busy writing a (this one) message, hoping no one sees what you're actually doing (nobody else here).

 

[Naoru]

When you perceive yourself as heartless when you try to get close to people.

Boy, can I relate to this!

You jump a mile high and try to shrink into your therapist's couch when her phone unexpectedly rings ... or when her timer goes off, despite knowing it's going to do so every single week.

 

[Anrish]

When you panic because people want you to have on some events and the events happen all at the same time and you don't want to annoy any person...:(

 

[8888]

When you know you are near but not even at the place you were traumatized at but still feel unsafe.

 

[Anrish]

When not being in control makes you lose the ground under your feet.

 

[Ronin]

When you regain the ground by being unpredictable. Madness, you got a system for.

You just need to combine it with the madness others take for "sanity".

 

[Deleted member 29920]

When little you is like: "I wanna watch Powerpuff Girls!" and big you is like: "What the f*ck just happened?!" :alien:

 

[Anrish]

When you always feel alerted and different.

 

[BlackEyedBride]

Thanks for the laughs!

-When you speak with so much psychology jargon, people assume you're a psychologist.

-You have an elevator speech to explain your behavior as quickly and effectively as possible...

-If people ask questions, you refer them to your website. Hahaha! (I say, "It's at BlackEyedBride" at LEAST once a day)

 

[Anrish]

When you actually need someone in a shop to advise you - but you don't have the courage to ask someone. ...and your best friend has to pull you to one of the employees...:(