You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Anrish]

When you're so excited about people holding contact to you that you change all your habits - just so they won't let you down...and you ruin it in the end. :(

 

[Ronin]

When your 'I know where a coping myself is' thought is 'Never change your habits for anyone, & never apologize. Very few exceptions, and they have to earn it.'

But you still side-eye the memory of that yourself because it's so distant.

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

When you're hugging and comforting a friend or significant other who just tried to hurt themselves, but inside you're thinking ... "That little scratch? Have you seen the scars on my legs?"

And then you feel horribly, terribly guilty for that thought.

 

[Anrish]

When your fear grabs you in the neck - and you cannot escape it.

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

When you cry in the car on the way to work, and that's a good day.

 

[Anrish]

@Lola Nocheprieta *calming hugs for you*

When you begin to watch an anime because the intro is called "trigger"...:wacky::roflmao::rolleyes:

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

Thanks, @Anrish, that IS comforting, and means a lot to me.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you show up to therapy almost an hour early and you're exhausted and just want to go home and sleep but, you're tired and don't feel like driving back and forth again. Also, you don't want to waste the gas in the car.

 

[DharmaGirl]

cannot find your phone and you are talking on it.

And your glasses because you are wearing them, lol.

 

[Friday]

The broken teeth nightmares.

Next morning TheKiddo needs to go to the dentist.

Thanks, hypervig. Must've noticed something about him last night & decided to party on pointing it out in your singularly not useful way all night. Cheers. Because sleep dep & nightmares is the PERFECT way to communicate. :banghead:

 

[Anrish]

When being honest to your T and feeling what you really feel makes you tremble and exhausted.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you come home from therapy more tired than when you got there and you spend the afternoon sleeping off and on. Of course that's from therapy and the pain that's been driving you crazy for the last week.

When seeing pictures of yourself as a young child before anything happened make you feel sad and full of grief. And all you want to do is wrap yourself around yourself as a child to try to protect yourself from what you now know was about to come.