You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Pencil]

When it feels like you have a prosecuting attorney in your head 24 hours a day. One who points and tries to prove that basically innocent people are definitely about to do something wrong

- or when there is a whole legal team in your head proving that everything you do makes you guilty of something and that you deserve the maximum penalty

 

[Changing4Best]

When you don't like to sleep under a top sheet, choosing only to sleep on a fitted sheet, because the top sheet seems to remind you of being in a straight jacket... Trouble is, you don't remember ever being in a straight jacket, though you have had many a stay in mental wards.

 

[Core]

When you only turned 18 a couple of months ago, really don't want to go out, and yet forget your ID when going out to buy cigarettes. :facepalm:

 

[Jen93]

You know you have PTSD when...

-Making progress doesn't mean no flashbacks, dissociation or anxiety, it just means you didn't avoid going to do something.

-You have to email your teacher your work and apologize just in case you didn't show up for class, and then apologize if you did... only to find out that you did show up and the conversation was great.

-You have to use acronyms in your school notes, ('E.' for Britain, 'S' for people who kill themselves, and 'D' for when people are feeling down.) because you can't bring yourself to write the words in your notes and it's triggering you. As a consequence, you can't share your notes with anybody who doesn't know you well.

-You know when to get off the bus because you see other people with backpacks and follow them off the bus and into the building which is apparently your school.

-You spend time yet again wondering what class you're in, and you make notes trying to figure out. "Is this English? Nope, he's not a girl. Is this History? Nope his hair's not brown..." (Turns out I was in my Romantics class and we were learning about The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.) Then you just look at everybody, and write whatever the teacher says... "there's nothing on the board but everyone's writing, maybe they're writing what the guy in front is saying... he looks like a teacher."

-You look next to you in class and wonder why there's a guy next to you, cause this is an all-girl's school... right? :confused:

You know you have PTSD when every time you go to the "You know you have PTSD When..." thread to type something, you have to look at all your posts already to make sure you haven't already posted what you were just going to write.

 

[KatB]

When someone tells you "what, you don't remember me" and your stomach sinks...
After that moment, you feel extremely embarrassed and you get mad at yourself.

 

[WillThereBeCake]

-When you constantly hear vehicles moving stealthily down the road behind your house, and there is no road behind your house.

-When the buzzer goes off to indicate the washer cycle is done and you go in and find the dirty clothes still sitting in a basket in front of it.

-When you have twelve bottles of bar-b-que sauce in the pantry, but don't eat meat.

-When your husband tells you that one would have been a romantic gesture, but six was overkill, when you packed your undies for his business trip instead of his socks.

-When you give yourself whiplash from shaking your head up and down at all the entries on this thread :)

 

[Britt.f7]

When someone from your past remembers you, but you can't remember them or if they were a good or bad part of your past.f

 

[HëllaBubz]

When your startle reflex scares the other person more than they originally scared you!

 

[Springer80]

When you go to make yourself a drink one time and you make pour yourself an orange juice, make a full cafetiere and a cup of tea? Then you think whose all this for? Or another time when your cup of hot chocolate has a tea bag floating in it :confused: :rolleyes:

I tried the Tea-ocha's just to see before I poured it away, they aren't very nice. :coffee: :yuck:

 

[Changing4Best]

I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard, thanks folks!

Here's mine for today: When at the grocery store, someone who used to be quite friendly with you makes a B-line right in front of you, rushing to chat with the produce worker, rather than saying HI to you as they used to. And when you have no idea what you said or did to offend or scare them.

 

[Springer80]

-When your husband tells you that one would have been a romantic gesture, but six was overkill, when you packed your undies for his business trip instead of his socks.

-When you have twelve bottles of bar-b-que sauce in the pantry, but don't eat meat.

OOOOOoooooo Saucy!!!!!;) XX

 

[safenow]

When you get up and get ready to go to work, then remember you haven't worked in almost 15 years.