You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Friday]

When you realize you haven’t actually had a ToDo list.... in far far too long.
(About 4 years?? >.< )

@Rani G Good Catch! I wouldn’t have noticed Elvis Left The Building without that thread, post. I think I’m doing better than I am, because I’m doing better than I was, sometimes. And that makes the list, now, too ;)

 

[Friday]

When you think you’re doing better than you are, because you’re doing better than you were.

 

[Rani G2]

You think that tomorrow or soon someone will die

 

[Rani G2]

How to stop crying.com? And crying is for sissies, a part says. Get tough

 

[Ronin]

When you're doing worse than you were, because you are colder and better than you were.

 

[DharmaGirl]

When you go to a drug rehab to get off 6 years of prescribed morphine, and they tell you you're not an addict. Probably because you answered I had a 6 oz coke the day before yesterday, and they have to tell you they mean cocaine, which makes a lot more sense. They gave me medicine to help with withdrawal, and even though I knew I would die, I got through it.

 

[SeekingAfrica]

When your reaction to getting drunk is now warning your good friends to be careful and never take drugs because you don't want them to overdose.

Or you have a meltdown over someone booking a flight because everyone is just dying lately.

Thank God,neither of these has been me for years. Recent one however...

When you have had 'normal' weeks or even months and you start forgetting you have it.... Then a trigger/flashback hits and you find yourself being unable to move and crying hysterically for 2 hours (while feeling it's a lot shorter).

 

[SeekingAfrica]

When going down to the post office to pick up a package is the biggest deal, and I'm not 100 % that I'll be able to do it, today.

Really felt that one. Been there in the past, often. When you're having a flare/though few months with it and every errand is a THING and it's big and it's exhausting.

 

[Spokesperson brave]

When you want to wear trump gear to a biden area or vice versa, just for someone to get in your face and give you a reason to feel the way you do.

 

[notsurewheretoturn]

When you're given the rules for lockdown and you can't find anything different to how you've been living anyway.

 

[Marie E.]

When your afraid to sleep at night and sleep during the day instead because of racing thoughts.

 

[AnnieMae]

When you realize that you lost everything and you are going to be alone forever. You can’t live in the moment and you messed up so many things that you can’t fix. When your nightmares become your reality.