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You Know You Have PTSD When...
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- Your cat tries to bring you out of one of those states.
- Getting out of bed & getting dressed deserves a pat on the back because it's such an accomplishment.
- Police/Ambulance drive past & you look to see if you know them.
- You wake up on fire 'cos your house is burning down & it seems like a normal everyday event.
- People start referring to you as "the ninja" :ninja: because of your overactive startle response.
- Friends need to put in a written application 6 wks in advance if they want to physically touch you.
- Getting out of bed & getting dressed deserves a pat on the back because it's such an accomplishment.
- Police/Ambulance drive past & you look to see if you know them.
- You wake up on fire 'cos your house is burning down & it seems like a normal everyday event.
- People start referring to you as "the ninja" :ninja: because of your overactive startle response.
- Friends need to put in a written application 6 wks in advance if they want to physically touch you.
CraftyCath
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:roflmao: :D hilarious LOL I do that all the time! :ninja:
notmuchofaname
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You know you have PTSD, when for the first time you shudder then shake wildly, in shock as tears flow from your eyes and caught off guard being suffocated by your own subconscious. Now unable to breathe, as in this moment time stands still, as you are now physically and mentally paralyzed. In this moment your feeling the worst feeling us humans possibly can, but for this price you will understand how precious life is and youll see that in this life we have nothing to lose but everything to give.
All you say and do is sincere and depending on where in the world you are, you may be a majority or a minority, you may be welcomed and amongst friends, or you may very well be alien and isolated. You will become disgusted and furious in all the selfish behaviour your now aware of, you will have to be strong and do so much for these people in your own mind, just so you don’t act on the feelings which you are compelled by. To come to understand they don’t know what they are really doing or saying, they don’t realy know what matters thus far.
It is multiple struggles like these that you will come to handle effortlessly as time goes by which will give you such insight, that can only give you some kind of peace. This is what I found and as some one who no longer has it. I would just like to let you all know this pain you have enables you to be that of angels.
I think I would rate this like a 3 and a half out of 1 - 10 to rate of what I could have written.
All you say and do is sincere and depending on where in the world you are, you may be a majority or a minority, you may be welcomed and amongst friends, or you may very well be alien and isolated. You will become disgusted and furious in all the selfish behaviour your now aware of, you will have to be strong and do so much for these people in your own mind, just so you don’t act on the feelings which you are compelled by. To come to understand they don’t know what they are really doing or saying, they don’t realy know what matters thus far.
It is multiple struggles like these that you will come to handle effortlessly as time goes by which will give you such insight, that can only give you some kind of peace. This is what I found and as some one who no longer has it. I would just like to let you all know this pain you have enables you to be that of angels.
I think I would rate this like a 3 and a half out of 1 - 10 to rate of what I could have written.
When you jerk awake from a horrible nightmare (the second of the night) in a total adrenaline panic, look at the clock and then go into a second panic because for some reason the alarm didn't go off! Jump out of bed, wake up your daughter for school who is also now running around in a panic, and halfway through making breakfast you realize that it's Saturday. (Oh yes, I did!)
Daughter was not at all happy but felt some relief that at least it wasn't the usual, "Wake up, I think there's someone outside!"
Daughter was not at all happy but felt some relief that at least it wasn't the usual, "Wake up, I think there's someone outside!"
CraftyCath
VIP Member
This is more like a 'You know you are in PTSD therapy when...'
You discover during your T session that some of the things you were told as a child were just stupid, cruel lies; you wake to the truth and it feels so alien but very freeing.
I was always called the 'sickly child,' 'our Cath was always ill.' Turns out I was no more ill than my siblings but I believed I was and so I became what I believed. I now know I had normal childhood illnesses and am NOT and NEVER HAVE BEEN the sickly child.
You discover during your T session that some of the things you were told as a child were just stupid, cruel lies; you wake to the truth and it feels so alien but very freeing.
I was always called the 'sickly child,' 'our Cath was always ill.' Turns out I was no more ill than my siblings but I believed I was and so I became what I believed. I now know I had normal childhood illnesses and am NOT and NEVER HAVE BEEN the sickly child.
intothelight
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You know you have PTSD when......
You have a hard time remembering if you fed the dogs and they figure out if they stand by the dog food, they will probably get fed again.
You have a hard time remembering if you fed the dogs and they figure out if they stand by the dog food, they will probably get fed again.
Innordinate
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