You Know You Have PTSD When...

[anni]

When you lock your keys in the car again yesterday and the guy from the AAA garage says 'Oh Hi Anni', before you identify yourself, just apparently by your VOICE when you call him to come open the dam thing.

 

[Barberian]

When all your friends or people you know are either from a PTSD forum or your mental health care team.

 

[intothelight]

You know you have PTSD when:

Your sister asks you if you have Ibuprofen and you tell her to grab the big bottle out of your purse...but instead of putting the Ibuprofen in there it is stool softener :roflmao:

 

[Barberian]

When you wake up in the morning and not only can't remember or figure out where you are, but WHO you are or WHEN you are. (very scarry to not be able to figure out who you are.)

You look at your pet and try to figure out if it's your pet, and if it is, what it's name is.

15-30 seconds into commercials you can't remember what you were watching.

Any clips/commercials on TV about a war movie past or present make you turn off the TV regardless of how much you were enjoying the show, and have to go to a "safe" place either physicaly and/or mentally.

 

[Coop]

I didn't read all 46 pages but here's one I thought of today cause it's true for me:

- You think a trip to the psych ward 'is' a vacation.

 

[Nighthawk]

When you have the TV on but nothing is on but the company name that you get cable from for hours. No wonder I can't remember what I watched.

 

[freakofnurture]

Oh the diversity.

You know you have PTSD when the first two seasons of Dexter are 'relaxation material' for you, because he lives your very secret dream life. After that you lose patience with the authors because, seriously, a marriage and a child??

EDIT: I score in at 6 Ghost items.

 

[schnauzerbabies]

When you walk into a store 30 minutes away from your house. See a crowd start to breathe fast, turn around. Then go home.

 

[CraftyCath]

When you join in the 'Big Garden Bird Watch' and don't see a single bird. They were there. I'm sure my eyes saw them but my mind wasn't watching!

 

[Ricanoland]

- You know you have PTSD when "you starting taking more pills per day than your grandma at age 16..."

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

What's your count daily on meds?( only mental related drugs please) Mine is 6+. :eek:

 

[Ricanoland]

Mine is 6 lol. my grandma only takes 2 a day lol.