You Know You Have PTSD When...

[PoeticWillow]

You lie in bed awake at night wondering if you locked the door, so you get up to check and forget why you got up in the first place. Then you get back in bed and remember again.

You check the door lock and in the process of doing so, actually unlock the locked door by mistake, then when you turn the door handle you panic because it opens unexpectedly.

 

[KP the nut]

You are having a conversation, you start a sentence, stop and stare into space and then wonder why people are staring and then they ask you what you were saying and you haven't got a clue.

 

[Chook]

"You Know You Have PTSD When"

You line up for the soup kitchen thinking it's just another normal day.

But they know my dogs by name and have saved raw bones just for them....:O_o:

 

[goingonhope]

You know you have Ptsd when your symptoms of Ptsd, stalk and traumatize you for perhaps decades. And, even during and/or while in the safest and most wonderful places, ...or positions ;) on earth to be in.

 

[Loloma]

You are having a conversation, you start a sentence, stop and stare into space and then wonder why people are staring and then they ask you what you were saying and you haven't got a clue.

(((KP)))

Oh so true, I've been doing it for years. Thought I was just having senior moments. :D

 

[kimba]

You know the door is going to open because you are waiting for someone. You jump two feet when the door is opened even though you knew it would happen. The noise makes you jump whether you want to or not. My T was coming into her office the other day and I jumped even though I was expecting her. My attention wasn't focused on the door.

 

[workingwithc-ptsd]

you ask yourself, how can one human being cry that much without dehydrating!

 

[schnauzerbabies]

When a friend of a friend is stuck at your house due to weather and you stay up all night freaking out, just to make sure your family is safer than you were as a child.

 

[KP the nut]

You know you have Ptsd when .......... nope, the thought was there but it has gone :confused:

 

[Queen Boudica]

When you visit your 'friend' and you try so hard to fit in and chat and act normal. But you still feel alien.

You feel like you are doing it wrong and you can see by their actions when they cut off your conversation and ignore things or walk away from the conversation and don't really want to hear.

And you come away feeling like you will never have any true close friendships. Why would anyone be wanting a friend like you? You are too flawed for friendship.

 

[Queen Boudica]

When you've cried an ocean's worth of tears and it still isn't enough. It will never be enough.

 

[schnauzerbabies]

When you keep y our baby awake at night because you are so restless, instead of the other way around.