You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Jestadud]

Along the same line........ when you don't even have to give your name at your therapist's office 'cause all the secretary's know you by your voice (over the phone)

Now you see this is male ego, I thought it was because they liked me that they knew who I was and who I was coming to see.

 

[shadowchaser]

You know you have PTSD when....

The bath tub is one of your favorite sleeping spots

Your friends refer to you as the quirky one

Your dog looks at you like your nuts

You have put your shrinks kids threw collage

The folks at Wal-Mart are use to your black outs and refer to you as their special customer

You have come back to yourself said store's employee break room with a cup of coffee in your hands more than once

During a crime spree your house is the only one not broken into thanks to the 5 deadbolts, 4 chains, chair slid under the knob, and large dog that you have convinced everyone is aggressive even though it got beat up by a 2 lb dog earlier that week.

 

[shadowchaser]

when putting the coffee pot in the fridge without realizing it reminds you of others on this forum....

 

[angel2write]

I always lose my car in a carpark.
Even if I am standing beside it.

You also might have PTSD if you always park in the same approximate spot at the stores you visit so that you have fewer places to search when you forget where you parked. I always go to the same row in Wal-mart, the same place outside Sears, the same spot at Target, and the same side of the parking lot at Food Lion. It minimizes wear and tear on my brain.

 

[Amy Jo]

you know you have ptsd when...your little girl asks you to feed her baby doll while she's at school and you do.

 

[Amy Jo]

you know you have ptsd when...it dawns on you after far too long that you're not getting anywhere with writing your memoir because you can't remember a thing

 

[Innordinate]

When you laugh at things you shouldn't just so you don't have a complete random breakdown of emotion.

 

[livergirl70]

when you have cried all the way on the journey, paced up and down outside to pluck up courage to go in and your psychiatrist asks "how are you" and you say "fine" lol

 

[Innordinate]

When you've "seen" the same movie 10 times in one day and still have no idea what it was about.

 

[njray]

When I lost password to PTSD forum and my world nearly ended.....

Forgot I taped it under the keyboard as I was cleaning screen and frame where I normally keep it posted......

 

[shattered mask]

OMG! I have to leave the room when the kids I work with are doing a project involving balloons. Utter dread!

 

[OKRADLAK]

Ok not funny but really funny......
You know you have PTSD when you park your car right in front of a store front run in cause you dont want to be there long and when you come out you are wondering where your car is. Has it been stolen freak out begins and then you realize your car is less than 2 feet away from where you are standing.

NH

This is why I park in the EXACT same spot every single time! LOL!