You Know You Have PTSD When...

[In the weeds]

Your family wakes you up from a dream where you are sobbing to ask if you're ok and you tell them you're sobbing because the bbq you were at had no more hot dogs left... Yet it was actually because your mom was there and she said something that had you shaking and sobbing again.
But your 67 and your mom has been dead for 18 yrs

 

[Shaylee]

When someone gets upset with you for interrupting them and you spend the rest of the day sobbing that you have destroyed the entire relationship and their lives.

 

[captain jigglypuff]

Something so small and innocent such as someone flinging a rubber band across the room or tosses a pen or pencil at you causes you to immediately duck and cover you head while you bolt out of the room as fast as you can.

You keep getting thoughts that refuse to go away no matter what you do

When certain times of the year are magnets for flashbacks for you

When seeing certain things triggers you so badly that you immediately break down into tears and cause you to literally hide from the trigger.

 

[OceanSpray]

When you sabotage a potentially perfect day by pretending to be sick just because of a chance that the other people will cancel and that would hurt too much.

 

[parrotthepolly]

When you can't decide if you should be more afraid of other people or yourself

 

[Dynamic]

Phone on dnd and airplane mode at same time

 

[Rose White]

Casually—accidentally—bringing up SI within a group (as something you have under control and it’s passive and just a symptom that can help you self-monitor like a weathervane) and then seeing the looks on their faces because you forgot that it’s actually not a common occurrence no matter how stressed people without PTSD tend to get

 

[Dynamic]

@Rose White that would and has got me in similar situations I quickly follow up with “I’ve had years of therapy I am safe everything’s okay” but a hug for you

 

[gorgonzola]

You think you're having a better day but then realize it's because the emotional numbing has been dialed up.

 

[Dynamic]

You think it’s three weeks ago in a conversation with your son and he’s like ??

 

[Freddyt]

You think it’s three weeks ago in a conversation with your son and he’s like ??

I will add to this, I told family it works like this:
-there is a lump of time called the past.
-there is toady
-anything beyond today is scheduled on my calendar.

 

[gorgonzola]

...when you find yourself trembling and are unsure if it's because you're randomly terrified or if it's time to put the heating on.