You Know You Have PTSD When...

[BrokenHalo91x]

You know you have PTSD when...

1. ...you have more emergency helpline numbers in your phonebook than friends,

2. ...you consider Born on the Fourth of July a 'feel good movie',

3. ...you see your psychiatrist, your psychologist and your GP more than you see your family,

4. ...you can remember the name of every soldier in your regiment from 1967, but you can't remember the name of your only grandchild,

5. ...your bestfriend is the psych nurse who hasn't dislocated your shoulder,

6. ...you avoid seeing your friends because you think that they think you're paranoid

7. ...the last time someone climbed into bed with you, they were promptly sedated and taken back to their own ward.

8. ...you spent last year's Australia Day firework celebrations trying to recover the rest of your platoon.

9. ...you wake up at 2am and are thankful that you've finally had a good nights sleep, and

10. ...you're the only one at your ten year highschool reunion with gray hair and a pension.

I love that even though we are all clearly suffering. You still have a great sense of humour

 

[BrokenHalo91x]

- You learn to fight the urge to turn your head and bite when your husband kisses your check
- Your husband starts a show of affection with the words "If you bite me, I'll squeeze your kneecap"
- Your GP encourages you to study to be a psychiatrist because you are so good at researching anti-depressants
- You have a sack hanging from outside the house
- Aquaintances ask what it is
- You dont have a problem telling them it is for punching after you phone your mother
- You collect animal bones and display a petrified rat in your laundry room, because you think it is cute
- You carry the ashes of your deceased loved one on your keyring, sprinkle them in the cinema so they can enjoy the movie too
- You are surprised that people think that is weird
- You and your husband play a game where you both scream in the car to release any tension
- You have a sign on your front steps saying "Door to Door Callers Not Welcome"
- You notice some of your friends are not sure whether to come up the stairs when they read it
- You buy forty bamboo screens and wire them to the fence so you dont have to look at your neighbours houses
- You train your friends not to book you ahead for anything
- They cooperate because they know you are a really nice person even though you are weird
- You work in a Psych ward and tell the doctors they don't know what they are doing
- You love the patients and want to invite them to your house so you can help them get better more quickly than the docs
- You call most people in the world "Normals"
- You can only relate to people who have been seriously hurt by life and you think they are the only "Real" people in the world
- You have a black cat and a black dog called Devil and you secretly hope it makes people think you are just weird enough to leave you the f$$# alone
- You learn to use the word "Unwell" in your vocabulary and cant understand why people assume you had the flu

Omg! I have an irrational phobia of knees! People touching my knees

 

[BrokenHalo91x]

You know someone else struggles with PTSD when you read a post and know they are in another country and are awake and posting in the middle of the night. Not directed at anyone right now but is something I notice at times.

(((HUGS))) to all who suffer. At ANY time of the day or night.

ISH

Yep, I'm guessing I'm in another country anyway!

 

[Givrali]

you find normal to ask yourself who is the next person in your circle of people you know is going to die next and even think about if the gift you're doing for your grand-mother will be finished early enough to have the occasion to give her. Also thinking about that feels perfectly ok

 

[Givrali]

you know you have PTSD when you check a tv show because you know you're going to feel awful because of it but can't resist the urge to test how much it takes to make you have a crisis

 

[FFnerd]

When your trying to explain to your therapist the time you felt so silly because you started balling watching a horror playthrough that depicted a neglectful mother and abandoned children - and then proceed to choke on tears and lose your breath during the explanation
Then you therapist has to tell you 'you're safe now' while you gather yourself.
and it was supposed to be a funny story

 

[abovedown]

You know you have a trauma when your trigger item never leaves your head but you can easily forget you keys, phone, your own or partner's birthday or where the hell did I park my car this time in the mall park

 

[abovedown]

you know you have PTSD when you check a tv show because you know you're going to feel awful because of it but can't resist the urge to test how much it takes to make you have a crisis

Same with certain news topics or triggering TV series for me

 

[Freddyt]

You have a phone program for your med reminders......

You know what your cats habits are at any time of day - because you have been awake to watch them.....

 

[LunaticOnTheFritz]

You know you have PTSD when:

You avoid anything and everything that looks like it has the potential to become problematic.

You see more of the inside of your home than you do people or the outside world.

The slightest noises can turn you into a murderous mess in the right situations.

Anybody and everybody are potential enemies even if they're just sitting and having coffee with you.

 

[SeekingAfrica]

You convince yourself you were overreacting, or it wasn't real, or you're over it- whatever it is- and then a picture or a piece of writing from that time comes up and it's worse than if someone kicked you in the stomach.



And suddenly this unnamed, untamed, unbroken world of pain comes back at you like it was yesterday.

Memories fade, but those- those have the ability to come back, full sound and color and touch.



And you know it was real.... yet again.

 

[RainbowSearchParty]

You go spot check 1/2 the house and the weather radar to see if it's raining too and go outside and have several fears go through your mind before you realize the 'obviously loud' sounds are the carbonated bubbles coming from the open can of Mountain Dew on the other side of the room.

This happens to me! I also have trouble with the sound of soap bubbles in the sink after washing dishes. Absolute panic and then it is just soap.

I also panic when a lady bug repeatedly flies into my overhead light fixture. Thwap Thwap thwap. Panic panic panic.