You Know You Have PTSD When...

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you're sitting in the living room with a cup of hot coffee and a good book and every time you look at the page to start reading someone in the room starts speaking to you. And you start to get annoyed. And every time you try to begin again they speak again.. and you can just feel your heart starting to pound and your muscles getting tense and you just want to start screaming.

 

[Springer80]

[DLMURL]https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/the-f-ck-off-thread.27861/[/DLMURL]

Enjoy.

Thanks Hashi, I'll know where to go next time I'm feeling creative! ;)

 

[Springer80]

When you always get gas from the same pump because it feels safe. It so bad they joke it is my pump!

They see you baby, pumping your gas!!! :giggle::roflmao::meh:

 

[kdblossom]

They see you baby, pumping your gas!!!

I use pump #5. I would have to use pump #1 (which I sometimes do) for them to have a good view of me. :barefoot: :coffee:

 

[intothelight]

You know you have PTSD when you stop for gas, put the credit card in the reader, then climb in and drive away without putting the gas in. :confused:

 

[safenow]

drive away without putting the gas in. :confused:

Now that sounds like something I might have done in the past.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you realize that the only time you can identify your emotions is when you're feeling a very strong emotion or feeling a very obvious emotion. Like anger or sadness. And all the rest of the time all you feel is numb or ok.

 

[Sailorgal]

You go to another town and tear through 11 storage boxes to find government issued docs that you can't understand why you didn't keep them on you to begin with. After the last box, you realize you DIDN'T bother checking if there were in fact at home to begin with!! Ugh....

 

[KatB]

When you feel tingling sensations all over your body and you start scratching yourself, thinking you must be paranoid.

When you go to sleep at 7am and realize that you havent slept at all.

When you wake up and look in the mirror and despise the way you look( dark bags/ thinning hair)...

When you cant stop writing because so many thoughts come to your head about how you know you have ptsd...

 

[HëllaBubz]

When the psychiatrist for the other side actually loses her fake smile when she asks you which sexual assault/rape was the worst, and I tell her that they all add up to make hell.

BUT, the most rage inducing, fist clenching, jaw gritting fact is that the intimacy that I was finally beginning to enjoy with my partner after years of abuse was ripped away from me, and for THAT, I would happily kill my attacker, because my partner is the only person in this world I truly care for, and that bastard has driven a wedge between us.

Yes, I would happily, slowly kill him.

Never seen a smile vanish so fast in my life.

 

[safenow]

I was finally beginning to enjoy with my partner after years of abuse was ripped away from me,

I can't be in a relationship due to that. I tried three times, failed four times. The fourth is because I'll be alone the rest of my life.

As for most of the reason you can tell you have ptsd, I thought they were only old age. But since you guys/gals aren't old, I guess I have to admit, it is the ptsd.

they all add up to make hell.

I agree 100%

 

[Britt.f7]

When you feel tingling sensations all over your body and you start scratching yourself, thinking you must be paranoid.

This happens to me from time to time. Feeling that something is walking on me, like a bug. Now I try to talk myself through it. I'm pretty sure one day a bug is going to walk on me and I'll just think it is my imagination and let it!