You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Muzikluvr]

When the reason you can't "like" a post is because it says too much about your own issues, and you're too paranoid to let anyone know you're like that too. :cautious: (Don't you judge me! :D)

 

[myself]

You know you have PTSD when...

6. ...you avoid seeing your friends because you think that they think you're paranoid

LOL I so relate to that one :)

 

[BloomInWinter]

You are lonely but too afraid to say yes to invitations to get to know people more.

 

[BloomInWinter]

You're the outlier at 12 Step Meetings.

 

[myself]

You secretly and quite frequently find yourself thinking about breaking up with an otherwise perfectly good partner over something totally unimportant, stupid, and/or (what should be) a banal act such as:

• he keeps loading the dishwasher wrong
• He snuck up and hugged you without any warning what so ever
• (let’s say dishrag but this could be any soon to be airborne object.) When you ask for the dishrag, instead of walking over and handing it to you, he decided to save time and energy by tossing it across the room.
• For a date, he suggested playing tennis/badminton/volleyball/anygame where objects can suddenly and without warning fly towards your face.
• His turrets syndrome causes him to make sudden loud noises
• He insists on using a very loud and jarring alarm clock, and then sleeps thru it as if nothing just happened.
• You can’t understand how he (or anyone else for that matter) sleeps thru that alarm clock going off.
• He leaves the light on at night
• The phone rang, and it was him calling.
• he asked about your childhood
• You tried to tell him about your childhood, because he wanted to understand

 

[myself]

You know you have PSTD when:

You find that rock-climb up the side of a steep cliff is a peaceful experience, but the thought of going to the store frightens you to bits.

 

[myself]

You know you are a life time sufferer of PTSD when…

Your grandmother cleans her attic and finds over 50 to do lists you wrote, as a 5 year old.

You are surprised to learn that you wrote to do lists as a child, and that you had created more of these lists than drawings or art as a child and it oddly puts things in perspective.

You see pictures of yourself as a child but don’t remember ever being there, at that place, and are surprised to learn you were.

You are convinced you’ve never been somewhere, and will argue it passionately, knowing you are right…. Just to be shown a picture of yourself at that place and time.

Acting is 2nd nature to you, and you never get stage fright.

the stage is somewhere you feel most safe and skilled, because nothing bad ever happens on stage and you find having so manny witnesses (that you never have to talk to one on one; aka the audience) around comforting.

 

[myself]

You know you are a life time sufferer of PTSD when…

Your dearest and nearest best friend from age 4 to age 26, was your cat.
And you feel she died way too young.

 

[intothelight]

You know you have PTSD when you spend part of the e-mailing yourself so you don't forget to do something! :D

 

[Poppycocteau]

You know you have PTSD when . . . this video reminds you of yourself:

 

[VDWngr1355]

When people offer to take you out for a meal and you freak out/make lame excuses not to go because the thought of sitting in a restaurant scares the s**t out of you.

 

[Nighthawk]

You know you have PTSD when you bloody jump cause your neighbor started his mower.

When walking you see someone on the roof of a building and expect to be shot.