You Know You Have PTSD When...

[angel2write]

When you struggle to try and define "normal" instead of just assuming you are.

When other (normal) people say, "I know exactly how you feel," and you want to kill them because they don't.

When your 12-year-old daughter can demonstrate at least six ways to disable or disengage from an adult male attacker because you practice with her sometimes while you're fixing dinner.

When your therapist gives you cookies and your paranoia kicks into gear and you immediately start trying to figure out how she's planning to manipulate you with snacks. (This happened last Wed. I gave her cookies as a "thank you" before she left on maternity leave. She gave back the container the next week with her own home-made cookies in it and I had three thoughts: 1) She rejected my cookies. She doesn't like me. 2) She thinks hers are better. She's trying to show me that she's a better baker than me. I shouldn't have brought her cookies. 3) By bringing her cookies, I must have made her feel bad. She felt manipulated. Is she trying to get even? Are we keeping score? Who is winning, and what is she going to want in return for these cookies? :cautious: OMG- it was a COOKIE CRISIS!!!)

Having PTSD is exhausting. :sleep:

 

[Heather]

When your therapist gives you cookies and your paranoia kicks into gear

WOW - angel that's a lot of thoughts regarding cookies! When I gave my therapist cookies for christmas he said it gave him diarrhea. I only had one thought: the diuretics I put in there worked:eek::D:p

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

When your therapist gives you cookies and your paranoia kicks into gear and you immediately start trying to figure out how she's planning to manipulate you with snacks. (This happened last Wed. I gave her cookies as a "thank you" before she left on maternity leave. She gave back the container the next week with her own home-made cookies in it and I had three thoughts: 1) She rejected my cookies. She doesn't like me. 2) She thinks hers are better. She's trying to show me that she's a better baker than me. I shouldn't have brought her cookies. 3) By bringing her cookies, I must have made her feel bad. She felt manipulated. Is she trying to get even? Are we keeping score? Who is winning, and what is she going to want in return for these cookies? :cautious: OMG- it was a COOKIE CRISIS!!!)

Having PTSD is exhausting. :sleep:

If I could like this a hundred times I would. Made me laugh so much! :roflmao:

 

[LawPhotos]

You know you have PTSD when:

--The therapist's office next door to your T is being renovated and the noise is setting you off SO badly that by the end of the session, your T is cursing about it worse than you are

 

[LawPhotos]

You know you have PTSD when:

--The first thing your T does every time you walk into the room is put the trash can (rubbish bin) next to you, lest all that retching and dry heaving ever become productive.

 

[LawPhotos]

You know you have PTSD when:

--Your legs are bruised from slamming them into the car door every time the driver reaches for the gear shift
--When your children were toddlers they learned, by example, to gasp before they learned how to talk
--Your daughter returns from her first sleepover surprised to have found out that other families don't sleep with the lights on
--You find yourself trying to hide under the bed---but you don't fit
--You order a kid's meal at a restaurant even though you are in your forties--and you still have to take some home
--Your teenage son begins every sentence he says to you with, "Don't freak out but,....."
--When you begin a sentence with, "I smell...." everyone rolls their eyes and says in unison, "...natural gas"!

 

[LawPhotos]

-When there is a knock on the door and others stand up to answer it but you sit down because your knees just buckled

 

[LaurenRose]

You get startled in the grocery store and you take out a shelf of beans.
Your best friends and advisers sing in the key of C G and A.
You rescue leaves that are falling from the trees.

 

[livergirl70]

You rescue leaves that are falling from the trees.

Omg the amount of times I have done that :laugh:

 

[Kintsugi]

This may be more like, "You know you spend too much on a PTSD forum when..."

You can't see the word "did" in capitals without first thinking, "Dissociative Identity Disorder."

 

[KP the nut]

You know you have PTSD when the forum is quiet, no-one is chatting and you think it is all your fault and that you have upset every single member - doh :oops:

 

[Kintsugi]

We can be the Monday morning crowd all on our own, KP! It is awfully quiet.

You know you have PTSD when you move around your house like a secret agent at night, waiting for the moment that you see the intruder who has so far not been found by you in over a decade of you looking, so that you can finally go, "I knew it! I knew it!"

But there is no intruder. :unsure: