You Know You Have PTSD When...

[The Albatross]

Your brain freezes up when you have to make an "on the spot" decision. :unsure:

 

[Pencil]

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

Excellent!

 

[KatB]

When you're so exhausted, your body starts to hurt in places you never thought of.

When you come out of the ER and you weep at the suffering and hurts of others(at home)...

When you have nothing else to say...

When you are so angry, you don't cry but scream and yell and curse and throw things around...

When the smallest sounds wake you up for no good reason....

 

[Core]

When you've taught yourself to never leave the kitchen while something's cooking because you're too forgetful... and yet forget to stay in there while doing so.

 

[p-no]

When you can't go to sleep and sleep through the night without being wrapped up in a blanket or something big enough to cover your whole body.

When, if the blanket or jacket or whatever you're using to wrap yourself up in for the night is not big enough shifts during the night and you wake up because you feel the edge of the blanket on your leg and wake up from it.

When your hypervigilant senses are not just one or two (like seeing and hearing) but all, and, just to give an example, a tiny cobble stone the size of a bread crumb feels like a piece of glass in your shoe and a hair on your shoulder feels as if you've just lost your pony tail.

 

[p-no]

When you actually imagine taking your 25 watch dogs (i.e. my analogy for what happens inside my head when I sense danger) to Iceland for dog sledding and wondering if they'd have trouble following your commands.

 

[ChavaRo]

When you sleep on your sofa bed because your (wonderfully comfortable) actual bed triggers you.

Or when you have to retake a class because although you passed, you don't remember it enough to proceed to the next course in the sequence.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

My bed triggers me too. I hate going to bed but I need my sleep.

 

[cattsrangels2]

You know you have PTSD when you go to the store for one thing and forget what you went in for

When your mind goes out more than you do


Thanks for the laughs everyone. I needed it

 

[Nighthawk]

When you run over an acorn and think you being shot at.

 

[Nighthawk]

When you desperately want to sleep but can't and when you do you wonder why because the dreams haunt you.

 

[Emma13]

When you see the metal ramp in the parking deck, acknowledge that it is there, but still startle when you drive over it.