You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Grainne]

LOL..(WAY TO GO ANNI!!! :) !!!)

And Medic72 - that was hilarious! My five year old actually did that for me the other day. I was getting a bit panicked in the crush of the crowd in the grocery store and my son, sitting the cart, takes my hand and says "Let's count to ten mommy, niiiice deep breaths". lol! He is autistic so we use this simple technique to engage him and interrupt a frustration cycle...he applied it right back to me. Amazing. lolol...and embarrassing!

 

[suzie q]

how about when...

You have the urge to go hang out at Wal-mart and watch the kids get spankings from irate mothers instead of staying at home with the spouse explaining once again, what's wrong with you.

While in Wal-Mart, you find yourself looking for freaks to make you feel "normal."

You find yourself at the check-out with a toothbrush, pair of underwear, and a tire pump thinking you were done with your grocery shopping.

You wait 20 minutes to look through the card section until everyone is out of the aisle, then you spend 2 hours looking for a card you don't need.

You speed through the store trying to find an aisle that is empty of people and end up constantly pushing your buggy around the store empty. I call that buggy dodging. Great exercise though!

 

[Onefineday]

-it's 5am and you decide you better to go to bed before it get's too late

-you get a disconnection warning for you're electricity and you're excited because someone sent you a letter

-You sit and joke with your friends after you see some weirdo talking to themself as they walk by, then someone walks past you and laughs at the weirdo sitting talking to themself

 

[becvan]

-it's 5am and you decide you better to go to bed before it get's too late

that sounds like me! LMAO

 

[tryintobreathe]

You know you have PTSD when you end up with attempted murder charges because someone decided to sneak up on you and poke your side!!!!

Jen

 

[ghost]

1. ...you’re on a first name basis with your pharmacist,

2. ...you list ‘cutting’, ‘drinking’ and ‘crying’ among your hobbies on job application forms,

3. ...the last time that you saw an episode of MASH you had to be hospitalised for three weeks,

4. ...your favourite section of the newspaper is the obituaries,

5. ...the closest you’ve come to having sex in the last three years is a colonoscopy,

6. ...your super effective weight-loss technique is… anxiety,

7. ...you’re on more medication than your grandmother, but you have a less active social life,

8. ...you find yourself eagerly counting down the days to Armageddon,

9. ...you wake up with a hangover, and all you drank the night before was a cup of tea and a glass of metamucil,

10. ...your nearest and dearest friend lives on the other side of the world and is known to you only by the online username, “night_stalker”.

 

[Clydiechick]

Ghost the Comedian

I think that you should become a comedian. Maybe only we would get you, but hey, you'd have a fair crowd.

Clydie

 

[anni]

11. When four of Ghost's items are true. I just sent my pharmacist a sympathy card because his marriage broke up and the poor guy is a wreck.

:) Anni

 

[rjtransient]

Anni, I don't know how they cope with those eleven hour days, much less family obligations. My pharmacist keeps me updated on how his two daughters are doing at NYU. Even his assistants miss me when I haven't stopped by in a couple of weeks.

Ghost, it's been a rough week and I needed the laughs. Thank you.

further ideas:

- When your roommate mentions Dexter and the next morning you start looking for a new apartment.

- When you have to leave your second apartment because your new roommate is too friendly and well-adjusted.

 

[anni]

Holy heck I don't know if I can adjust my face for the rest of the day into something less than hilarity. Dexter. DEXTER!!? I don't think you need to have PTSD to get the hell out of there.

 

[louisa]

Haha. That's funny ghost. Thankyou for making me laugh when I was nearly crying,

Louisa

 

[Jade-]

You know you have PTSD when you realize all of your refrigerator food is in the cupboard and all of the canned food is in the refrigerator.

When you can't find your cell phone and the kids say it's probably in the refrigerator and they get it out for you.