You Know You Have PTSD When...

[KatB]

When you can spot a war veteran from anywhere...

When you can connect to them much more easily. You actually understand them better :confused:

And they make you laugh. and smile.

 

[kdblossom]

When you finally realize the Derrick your friend, JS has been talking about for 5 years is the same friend your friend JB has been talking about for 10 years! :facepalm:

 

[safenow]

When you bring up 30 year old events to explain something that happened last week.

 

[NarcSis]

When some days you actually need to be near people, even though you hate being near people.

 

[Core]

When you burn your finger for 10-15 seconds before realizing what's happening.

 

[Changing4Best]

OUCH!!!

 

[Hashi]

When you are proud of yourself for dealing promptly with your dirty gym clothes and towels. Then a little later in the day you realise that after taking them out of the bag you forgot about the washing part and simply folded them all up and put them away.

Yuk!

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you go to your therapist have and have a good session and feel some sense of relief. And 3 hours later you're so anxious you have to call her :facepalm:.

 

[Hashi]

BlackbirdRising, if you accept hugs I would like to send you one. I hope calling her helped.

 

[Changing4Best]

When you are the "monkey in the middle" in a kind of dispute between two folks, one who is a friend and the other an aquaintaqnce... you know that one is probably more right in that dispute than the other, but you really don't want to take sides or get involved for fear of repercussions upon yourself by the one who is more in the wrong. The day you decided to become UNinvolved was the day you saw that one walking with a HUGE BIKER wearing a leather jacket and spikes....

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

I hope calling her helped.

It did thank you. And thank you for the hugs :). She's going to call me if she gets a cancellation.

You know you have PTSD when it's 1:30am and you're exhausted and you can't stop yawning but you don't want to sleep because you're worried about nightmares.

 

[Jen93]

You know you have PTSD when you shampoo your hair in the shower five times in an hour because you can't remember whether you really washed your hair, or just thought about it.

Lather, rinse, repeat...and repeat...and repeat. :confused: