You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Forgetful]

When you're having horrible chest pains but wait 2 days to say anything because you hope you'll just die before someone makes you go to the hospital.

 

[Tinyflame]

Or you don't say anything at all @Forgetful , lol. So true.

 

[Deleted member 37085]

When walking around a well-lit and mediocre middle income neighborhood with police officers living here around me, and still in order to feel "safe" and it doesn't accomplish that, having to carry big can of bleeping pepper spray, a very charged new (2nd one) stun gun, and also a handycam video/picture cam in order to feel the least bit "safe" in the middle of the freaking day! JJ

When you wake up and your heart is pounding out of your chest.

Later...no stressors and your heart is s...

Relate sooo much! JJ

 

[Justmehere]

When you jump 3 feet and scream because a 10 year old child happened to jump out of a car on to the sidewalk, just on the edge of peripheral vision.

 

[A little lost]

When you spend all day trying not to feel or react, then it all explodes when you allow the lock off ....then you just wish to go back to feeling nothing. Because feeling stuff just hurts like hell.
You are left feeling like shit because the feelings you had were bad/misplaced and turned you into an absolute ASS!!
I think I was at the end of the queue when God handed out the instructions on feelings...I got the chewed up ratty copy with half the pages missing.

 

[anthony]

Your anger goes from 0 to explode, instantly.

 

[Anrish]

When you do not feel like you deserve to do something special just for you.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When multiple triggers get pulled at the same time and all you can feel is numb and dazed. And somehow angry somewhere deep inside where you're screaming. But, you don't open your mouth. You try to smile and nod at the person you're sitting in the room with. And you try to look like you're watching tv but, you can't even focus on what's happening on tv.

When people talking on and on and on and on makes you want to scream.

When everything starts making you annoyed and angry.

 

[ladee]

When you are just tired.

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

When you feel close and connected to your wife during sex ... and you still cry afterwards. :(

 

[jaccat]

When you watch a TV drama in which someone who's been through a terrible experience fights for the truth to be known, and you think wow, they're so strong, but the same doesn't apply to you.

 

[Rebecca_helena]

When you spend all day trying not to feel or react, then it all explodes when you allow the lock...

I belive we were standing next to eachother in that queue!!!!

Well written! I can so relate and its like I wrote it all my self.