You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Someday Soon]

When your doctor asks if you truly think everyone is out to murder you.

When a simple door opening sends you into a melt down, the person then touches your back and you begin a full blown panic attack.

You lock yourself out of your house everyday, you then leave your keys in your scooters ignition and spend 20 minutes searching for them.

You set reminders, for reminders and still forget.

When you spend your breaks in the works basement car park because being with people is simply too much.

You walk a million miles an hour and your friend cannot keep up watching as you look around for potential dangers.

 

[Friday]

Uh-oh. When every grain of sugar hitting my coffee is making an individual sound? Step outside. Yep. Can isolate raindrops striking in a 50 meter radius.

Hypervig looks like it's stopping by to say hello.

 

[Ronin]

When your name(s) IS a trauma history.

But you have people who found them beautiful & that are worth staying for and staying somewhere they can see you, so you work on sidelining that run-hide-live drive some more. E&E in urban settings it is. Making it smaller. Making it manageable. Making it less acute. Making it less everything-there-is.

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

When getting up is your greatest accomplishment of the day/week.

 

[Anrish]

When justifying yourself is the same like breathing.

 

[Fadeaway]

When you achieve a new record of 9 without sleep and you are amazed at how skilled you have become in managing symptoms of severe sleep deprivation. At least the mental ones anyways.

When you clearly know more about certain medications than the psychiatrist and you can't help but wonder where they got their degree.Unless there is something I didn't know and Celexa Geodon combination truly has shown to stop "I am depressed because my parents are divorcing strain of depression" in every single 14 year old who has ever tried it, and the suicide attempt that I predicted as a result of being put on those medications was just a total fluke and black box warnings where put there for no reason.

 

[desiderata310]

When moving out to the country where NO ONE lives is considered a very good thing for your health.
When you do things other people consider fun or exercise to keep your sanity and you MUST do it. Seriously, do therapists usually loan out surfboards to get their clients started and text them the surf report?
When you have nightmares so vivid that you swear that you need to go apologize to the person in the dream for what happened.

 

[Anrish]

When you're used to your shoulders and neck hurting.

When you always have the feeling not to be good enough.

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

When hug you wake up gasping for air and you can't tell if it's sleep apnea or a nightmare or a random panic attack in your sleep.

When you go to sleep crying and wake up crying.

 

[ladee]

When you keep your meds in your purse and are in traffic,you keep your eyes on the road, start digging in your purse and find the right one because you know how each of them 'sound' in the bottle.

 

[Gs172003]

Uh-oh. When every grain of sugar hitting my coffee is making an individual sound? Step outside. Yep. Can...

When your cat jumping up on the sink sounds like a freaking explosion

 

[jaccat]

When you have nothing on your noticeboard but reminders for therapy appointments, yoga classes and massages!