You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Anrish]

When you are so used to no sleep that you're rather surprised when you really sleep.

 

[One step at a time]

When you are so used to no sleep that you're rather surprised when you really sleep.

Yes! I woke up before my alarm this morning, and then spent a few minutes searching for something wrong, because I assumed something had woken me up. Then I realized I had gone to bed on time last night :)

 

[Friday]

Over-react? Check!
Under-react? Check!
What's the word for neither of those, again?... I'm pretty sure there's a word.

:cautious: :shifty:

Huh.

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

@Friday, I think the term you are searching for is "respond appropriately."

:cautious::shifty:

Yeah, not really in my lexicon, either.

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

When you're doing really well (whatever that means), and yet you're subject to sudden attacks of hyper-anxiety, as if you'd taken a triple dose of Adderall, washed it down with some high-octaine caffeine, on an empty stomach.

Who me? Jittery? No, this is just me on guard duty. What? What am I guarding? Why, every-f*cking-thing, thank you very much. Jeesh.

 

[Jadie Rose]

When you're getting ready to tell your therapist something on your mind, like "please stop you're scaring me now." But instead it comes out "Mary Poppins orange dog fly."

 

[Jadie Rose]

When you've been up all night, three nights in a row, and your highlight of the day turns into saying good morning to the sun! LOL

 

[Chiqui]

When even though you are full of meds for anxiety and depression are faster and sharper on react (responses, spoken and actions) than the other ones how are not taking anything lol

 

[Anrish]

When you tremble so much because the current situation ain't clear that you can't do Yoga and can hardly eat.

 

[Jadie Rose]

When you and your 95lb. yellow lab go to Einstein Bagels to grab a breakfast sandwich and all people are focusing on is YOU and your dark circles under your eyes instead of the big HUGE friendly loving lab you brought to distract from any of that

 

[Heather]

When everything and everyone makes you want to run screaming in the other direction

or the flip side: where everyone and everything sets you off and you turn into someone no one wants to mess with.

I toggle between both

PTSD runneth over I think

 

[Ronin]

When you have a related issue: You don't want to have anything in common with yourself.

Which a problem, because people you're actually enemies with are not happy end stories.

So back to what we do with actual danger-impulses that are so undoable in reality. Into a fic you go, dead asshole.