You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Ronin]

When you get back to dating to persuade yourself you aren't broken and life goes on.

Only to find there exists a new bottom and that activity is just digging. Dropit zipit lockit. Just a few bad years, 's all.

 

[Ronin]

When you go from calm and almost enjoying the day to symptoms kaboom & meltdown in three minutes.

Upsides? Don't got any. Oh. That it was three minutes and not just one. Yay. :smug::banghead::bag:

 

[Anrish]

When you hear people talking about a work outing with lots of alcohol, dancing on tables and weird party games ...and you only feel fear and want to run away.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

you only feel fear and want to run away.

@Anrish your gut instincts are just looking out for your best interest, it is a good plan to feel fear and run away.:):hug:

When you so confused as new realizations are beginning to surface and the old ways conflict with what I know to be true for me.

 

[Fadeaway]

When conversations with your husband look like this:

Me~ I take it you are going to be up all night playing you game? (Just got a new video game tonight)
Him~ Is that going to be a problem?
Me~As long as you don't come to bed and wake me up
Him~ And risk you mistaking me for an intruder? I know better than that.

 

[BM2A]

When you go from fully functioning to smuggling diazepam in your bra in to a psych ward, cause you've over dosed recently and they wont give you any of your usual meds!
When you cant cope with the 15 minute bloody checks all night where the light gets switched on, or a torch is shone in your face!
When you have to pee or shower in 14 minutes before the next check so they don't see you naked and you dont lose the plot!
Where your considering how to take apart the screws and grills on the windows because if your stuck in a psych ward any longer you may attack your neighbour with their colouring pencils
When you dont give a shit, and decide that curled up on the floor in the shower in the dark, is safer than your bed where the nightmares are.

 

[Anrish]

When excited people scare you.
When you avoid meeting people...
When tiny things shake you really bad.

 

[ladee]

When someone in your real life is so selfish and unconscious, that you find yourself avoiding them. And how to deal with it has turned into an emotional overthinking cluster f*ck !

 

[Deleted member 12723]

When someone in your real life is so selfish and unconscious, that you find yourself avoiding them.

Yes, me too doing the same thing.

 

[Chiqui]

When you have a good day, and that is so strange, that you go over and over thinking, trying to find something wrong to spoil it

 

[Friday]

When the most intimate thing you've done, ever, is hand someone else your weapon.

 

[ladee]

When you feel the same as you did about being supported, as the day of the actual event. And this is the anniversary, and you really have no more support than you did then. PTSD wins.