You Know You Have PTSD When...

[NoWhereKnowWhere]

When someone’s baby crying next door makes you jump to your feet and makes you think you have to change a nappy, or feed said baby. Oh wait....I don’t have any children.

 

[Ronin]

When your super chill & smily makes people go oh shit and wondering what to do to not piss you off worse.

Shaky half shutdown much more preferable. :facepalm:
And when both of that makes you happy: Someone reading various silences.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you're watching tv with your mom and your brother and out of the blue your brother starts talking about a celebrity who recently spoke about being sexually abused as a child. And your heart starts pounding and your breathing gets fast and shallow and you feel anxious and nervous and you feel like you want to run out of the room.

When you have insomnia and you toss and turn until almost 5am and then wake up at about 10:45am.

 

[Friday]

:bag: When someone (innocently) lists your trauma as a point of similarity between you & another guest as a party... & it doesn’t have the social lubricant they seem to have expected.

((Not the trauma I’m speaking of, but no good host(ess) on the planet would introduce people by saying they Susie! Jo! Yo both have dead children. Talk amongst yourselves! ...so it really was an innoncent mistake. But man oh man oh man... ))

<.< When it takes you a little over a year to post about that because it’s still embarrassing as f*ck how :speechless: and gotta go now! You went over that.

 

[420kitty]

When I start to get anxious and realize I left my shungite stone at home (grounding stone). Then that makes me even more anxious. Lol. I pulled it together though.

 

[katz]

I seriously thought this was just something I did...


When you almost vomit (have a panic attack) seein...

Thanks for the support! I'm very glad that I'm not alone "down there". LOL
(I always thought that it was "just me" too.)

 

[DharmaGirl]

:bag: When someone (innocently) lists your trauma

WTF??? I'm so sorry that happened. Yikes

 

[Friday]

When you’re tired means you want to die... so you can’t sleep, because there’s no way in hell youre done fighting to live... which. makes. no. goddamn. sense. :banghead: Brain! Sleep. Actual honest to god sleep. is. not. giving. up. Sleep when you’re tired. That’s the right thing to do. FFS. It’s like wires have been perm crossed by some idiot too cheap to hire an electrician, and too stupid to open a book.

Just because you want to lay down and sleep, doesn’t mean you have to fight to stay awake. Really.

 

[Rani G2]

When you think the Warzone is everywhere.

 

[Ronin]

When...

Nope, switching to warzone mindsets calms you down. So it's just unnerving people you don't want to unnerve. I notice everyone, coming and going, how didn't I notice -you-? ... Sorry, buddy. I came in for a coffee, somewhere-in-Latin-America.

Current time. Current place. Cannot do. :speechless:

 

[littleoc]

When you feel like a stack of memories

When you feel like you have too many memories

But you can't speak of them or they aren't available for viewing

 

[Chiqui]

When you have mentally prepared yourself all week for a Sunday birthday party.
(As if could be a war zone)
And the day before you are so mentally exhausted that you don't care that shit anymore (and any shit) and just watercoloring