You Know You Have PTSD When...

[shiraz]

Just shared these with my significant other and we had a real good giggle .... keep them coming!

 

[Marlene]

***Walk into the kitchen to cook dinner, turn around three or four times with no memory of why you came into this room and you walk back into the livingroom. Then your partner/spouse/child said 'I thought you said you were going to cook dinner' and only THEN do you remember why you walked into the kitchen.

***Repeatedly ask someone the same question, get the same answer and still don't remember asking the same damned question four times. My daughter has asked me how many times I'm going to ask the same question/get the same answer. I told her as many times as it takes to stick in my whacked-out brain!

Lisa

 

[kers]

...When you can go through an entire day without ever really being in your body for it.

 

[LoveWins]

When you often can't decide if you feel more like you are 5 or 95, but you know it is one of them and definitely not your actual age

 

[LoveWins]

You have can opener in one hand and a can in the other. But have no idea how to connect the two together, or even what the connection between the two is sometimes.

I've done this:rofl:

 

[LoveWins]

When the phone is ringing, the call display shows it is someone you really want to talk to, but you don't pick up, you just stand there looking at it, frozen

 

[anni]

When the phone ringing is the signal for you to leave the room, and then you notice the dam dog is starting to do it too.

The poor dog-I must react so strongly to the phone ringing that he's now Pavlof's dog. Just the phone going off makes the poor old guy leap up and leave the room. Must be what I look like! :)

 

[Dylan]

Oh, this was a good one, LoveWins, "When the phone is ringing, the call display shows it is someone you really want to talk to, but you don't pick up, you just stand there looking at it, frozen."

What is that?? I do this pretty often. I'll even call the person right back! It's almost like I've got to....get my game face on or something.

-Dylan

 

[Grainne]

Oh I do that too!! Even at work where I don't have the choice to answer or not. I'll see it's my boss (whom I have no trouble talking to) and will be completely unable to answer. I think it was just me.. I like that Dylan...getting your game face on. Lol...one moment please while I prepare to engage...

 

[dust]

When you understand more (hypervigilance) about what someone else is feeling than yourself!

When you see a child have a tantrum and want to join in.

When you think a best friend is someone you call every two months.

 

[NarcSis]

When you throw a tantrum and the children around you try to comfort you! :)

 

[anni]

Yes!

"When you think a best friend is someone you call once every two months". ( Sorry- am rechno challenged and have no even explored how to use the 'quote from a post' option in this).

That's sooo true!!
Thank you!
:rofl:
Anni
ps-HA! Just successfully used and emoticon for the first time. :clap: