You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Rose White]

Friends tell you some personal detail about yourself that you have no memory telling them.

You have to be your own Sherlock Holmes to figure out what you did yesterday.

Understanding your past feels like it needs a PhD in archaeology.

A stranger is nice to you and you wonder if they will adopt you.

Your life feels like a puzzle where the pieces keep rearranging.

Your T blabbers on about radical self-acceptance and you think, “This person just doesn’t get it.”

Your cat gently reminds you that you exist and have a body as you are hovering in dissociation.

 

[Friday]

You dream you post 3 total BS / personally identifying / mortifying threads… aieeeeee!

(I truly envy people who cannot read in their dreams.)

I logged in today, with my heart in my throat. FFS. It’s a forum. Online. Not a kidnapping. Still? Reacted like it was. <roll eyes>

^^^ IE ^^^

When dreams hold more emotional weight than real life??? That’s my PTSD threatening to rip my spine through my chest. Not reality.

 

[Charbella]

When dreams hold more emotional weight than real life???

For real though! Lately I’ve been having a lot where I wake up furious at someone from my dream. Heaven help them if they should call shortly after…

 

[Freddyt]

You sleep in separate beds - because you are violent in your sleep......

 

[E.G.T]

You sleep in separate beds - because you are violent in your sleep......

You've been through several therapists

You've done exhausting research on psychology

You have a nightmare, but it's not as bad as others, and you want to keep dreaming it

You get so stuck in your brain you forget the outside world

You can't remember what you said one second ago

You want to be asleep when you're awake and awake when you're asleep

You post on this forum :)

 

[Givrali]

You can't remember a time you weren't scared, depressed and were happy to live

 

[user27357]

or remembering a time you werent angry or scared or resentful just leads to remembering

You can't remember a time you weren't scared, depressed and were happy to live

all the reasons you arent any more

 

[SeekingAfrica]

When no carefully planned routines and meetings can save you from days when you wake up in such panic and so out of your body and into the dream (nightmare...) that you need half of the day just to regulate it.

 

[SeekingAfrica]

When dreams hold more emotional weight than real life??? That’s my PTSD threatening to rip my spine through my chest. Not reality.

Having one of those myself, good explanation...

 

[user27357]

drug withdrawals? childs play. It's the clarity afterward that allows you to clearly remember why you were on the drugs, that's the hurdle.

 

[Freddyt]

You consider a successful trip to the dentist one where you didn't panic and didn't get sick when you got home......

 

[abovedown]

When no carefully planned routines and meetings can save you from days when you wake up in such panic and so out of your body and into the dream (nightmare...) that you need half of the day just to regulate it.

I hate the nightmares especially :/