You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Deleted member 541]

When the bread that “you” put in the toaster POPS up, and scares the shit out of you!!!

 

[Deleted member 12723]

When you have bad dreams in a row and your feelings are emotional flashbacks so confusing to face and deal with superimposing onto today anyway.:(

 

[Justplainnutz]

For no apparent reason you go on a tirade about everything that ticks you off. 30 seconds later it’s like nothing happen.
This sux, especially for those that support.

 

[Ronin]

You're living in different lives, and all of them wrong.

Right, people that made them right. Suck it up & sail on. Generations and generations of people did their shit alone without whining about it. I'll get there, queridos. I'll get there.

 

[jaccat]

When there's no apparent difference in your reactions on a normal day compared to you after 36 hours of full hyper-alert sleeplessness, up to the moment you realise it feels like your car's driving you, and not the other way around. Whoops.

 

[Anrish]

When simple things cause major damage.

 

[Kay N]

It's really refreshing to read, I always think maintaining a sense of humour whenever possible is so important... We must all try to do this..

 

[Anrish]

When you try to feel and you just feel too much.

 

[Tinyflame]

Or nothing at all -> 'That life? When was that?That's over. '

 

[Ronin]

When 'That's over' is actually a hallmark of recovery.

Your issues center around it not being over enough. Or being over the wrong way. Or.... dangabit. I'll rewrite this bloody story at least in my head. Otherwise known as #therapy: not relying on others' narratives and finding what pieces of it you keep.

 

[420kitty]

When you keep putting things off because 'you don't feel like it today but maybe tomorrow'.

 

[ladee]

When you have been at this healing thing for so long, you have a few great days, and do not sabotage it.... and just let it be... Progress !!!!