You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Red Feather]

When no matter how hard you try, and no matter how often you reread the text, you just can not understand very important documents written in official german language.

:confused::banghead::wtf:

:sleep:

 

[HëllaBubz]

When you're moving furniture around, and your partner manages to ram your brother into the wall with the queen mattress (really hard), so you laugh.

Then, 10 minutes later, your brother gets your partner back by squishing him between two bookshelves (really hard) and you laugh so hard you sit on the floor and cry your eyes out!

And then later in the day you remember the "OOOFF!" your brother made when he got squished by the mattress' momentum, and you just lie on the floor and howl with laughter til the cats start avoiding you!



You also know you have PTSD when you're sitting behind the wardrobe door silently bawling your eyes out and the kitten has never seen a human cry before, so looks around the door at you with massive big scared eyes, and keeps meowing at you.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Awww, kitty was consoling you. Aren't kitties awesome!

 

[Britt.f7]

keeps meowing at you

I read that kittens/cats do not meow as a manner of communication between themselves. That is how they communicate with humans. Hope you were able to pick up the kitty and hug it. She would have been comforted and she would have given you some lovin back.

 

[angel2write]

Here's one I run into so often, I even have nightmares about it.

...if, when you try to dial the phone, you have trouble punching in the numbers properly. I don't know if it's because I can't remember the phone number and dial at the same time, if I have trouble focusing long enough to enter an entire phone number, or if the numbers are actually moving around on my phone. (I'm inclined to think it's the last one.)

I have frequent nightmares that I have to dial 911 and I can't get the numbers entered correctly. I keep punching the wrong buttons.

 

[Marine/w/PTSD]

I personally love Empire of the Sun, and I feel better every time I watch it

 

[LittleL]

When you go over conversations in your head before you have them, simply because you want to be REALLY sure you don't say something stupid. Of course, it never helps anyway, because you always find something you said was stupid.

 

[Nighthawk]

When you medical vocabulary is concerning to the doctors around you. Maybe I can prescribe some meds.

 

[Charmedone]

When you pour the hot chocolate powder directly into the kettle.

When you put something in the microwave to cook and defrost it 3 times instead.

When you feel like tomorrow is a mellenium away.

 

[Britt.f7]

When you don't feel that any touch is a friendly touch, and have to remind yourself that it truly is okay.

 

[p-no]

...when you walk into a room with a plan and a will to end a relationship and you walk out of the room ten minutes later totally confused and with a date! :cry: How can something like this happen???

...when you end up on the floor of your apartment the third time a week with a nervous breakdown and you feel you don't know who you are anymore.

 

[p-no]

...when less than a day's time seems to grow into months when thinking about how many hours you will have to cope alone until you finally have your next appointment with your t.

...when you just want to vanish from the face of the earth.