You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Ricanoland]

You know you have PTSD when taking a shower is more like using a time machine back to the past....

 

[Marine/w/PTSD]

You know you have PTSD when you keep downgrading your cell service all the way til you only have a go-phone left.

 

[Britt.f7]

when even being out in daylight scares you.

when you don't really trust many, if any, to watch over your children
(including family, if not more so)

when you are suspicious of nearly everyone's motives

when you stop being able to leave your house

when you think your being fat will keep you protected

 

[AS1975]

When you share a laugh with your wife, because you've shifted your head out of the way of the door of the medicine cabinet so she can't lovingly caress your skull with it (just to show she cares), and she calls you "a killjoy", "always with the wrecking" and while laughing about that spits a seroquel across the room.

When after laughing about this, you go to put the nexium back, in order to get the seroquel out and the clonazepam bottle falls in the bathtub...


Then and only then it may come to you that there may be some sort of issue.:unsure:

 

[.Bubbles.]

... Every noise is someone trying to break into your house. Every whisper is someone planning to destroy you, and every laugh is at your expense.
... A change in your plans turns your world upside down.
... Said plans are to sit indoors and avoid, avoid, avoid.
... When getting into bed, your partner says "yes the door is locked" before you even open your mouth.
... You wake up 3 times, sweating with a headache, and consider it a good nights sleep 'cause you don't remember any nightmares.
... You trip on thin air, choke on your own spit, slip UP the stairs and forget your age on a regular basis.
... You put your head down in public, 'cause you might see someone you like and have to hold a conversation.
... You hear/see the word "post" and your brain automatically finishes it - traumatic stress.
... Even having fun stresses you out on some level!

:)

 

[Ricanoland]

... Said plans are to sit indoors and avoid, avoid, avoid.

My Life. Lol.

 

[Red Feather]

... when the pizza guy wants to hit on you and asks where you come from, and all you can say is "I don't know... where's my pizza?"

... when the only guy friends you have are either gay, transsexual, or mentally ill like you are.

... when you couldn't believe you might actually have found a T who isn't intimidated by the amount of problems you have, and not wanting to start hoping, you get frustratingly triggered, panicking like a little girl after she calls and says she won't work with you because it would mean to much paperwork.

... when you meet already the fourth T who tells you that you behave like a little girl.

 

[faraway]

You have total familiarity with the concept that your mind exists separately from your body

... when the idea that your mind might not exist separately from your body is a total revelation. :wideeyed:

 

[kdblossom]

When you let your cell phone die on holidays so you don't have to talk to anyone in your family :yuck:.

 

[Marine/w/PTSD]

Or you just don't answer the phone even though it's fully charged.

 

[NarcSis]

When you read the next item on your grocery list, read it again, say it to yourself, put the list in your pocket, look up and can't remember what you just read. Ugh.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I do that Medic. LOL:roflmao: