You Know You Have PTSD When...

[beautifulbroken]

You know you have PTSD when you won't give your address to anybody. And all mail is received at a postal place in the next town. Or when you have every bill in your spouses name. Or when you won't give out your phone number that you've had changed to anyone. And when you make calls you block your number. When you've filtered your email to only receive from a select few. When you go in and change passwords to everything every 30 days. When you delete most everybody from Facebook (wife won't let me delete Facebook altogether) and set your security so high that no one can find you. Then you never post. Just see what others are up to. Paranoid you may say. HA! I just laugh at that silly thought.

 

[Changing4Best]

And you make yourself so upset your anxiety is a 14 on a scale of 1-10.

Yup, that is what it is like, thanks for your thoughts on this. It is nice to know someone understands!

 

[Deleted member 19804]

When the sound of bread popping out of the toaster gives you a mini heart attack EVERY SINGLE TIME.

So stupid, I know I'm going to hear that sound when I use the toaster. And yet it always scares the s*** out of me x)

 

[Changing4Best]

Snowwhite, I stand right in front of the toaster and stare at it when I toast bread. It gives me some kind of warning just as it starts to pop, thus alleviating this for me. Also, sometimes my toaster takes longer than it should and burns the toast, thus I can catch this before it happens too!

 

[Deleted member 19804]

Thanks Sheila! I'll give that a try :) Though it will be hard to focus on just the toaster for 2 minutes, haha. I'm capable of losing control of my mind within seconds.

 

[Barberian]

- it will be hard to focus on just the toaster for 2 minutes, haha. I'm capable of losing control of my mind within seconds.

Two minutes is an eternity for me some times. My mind would drift off, and it would scare/startle me even worse because I'd just be sitting there daydreaming in la la land. I'd be better off doing something. I'd still get startled, but I wouldn't have my defenses down daydreaming.

 

[Deleted member 19804]

Hahaha, guys, I think I have a solution! As soon as I put the bread in the toaster I go to my bedroom and play loud music with my headphones on for about five minutes. The worst that can happen then, is that I forget to eat my breakfast...
Okay, it's not bulletproof yet.

 

[rainy_daze]

When you're at the zoo and a bird taunts you by squawking - every time it goes "mehh" you jump :rolleyes:. You continue to be startled by all the animals that sneak up on you :eek:.

 

[beautifulbroken]

You know you have PTSD when....you have to take multiple medications, meditate and have your wife hold your hand and continuously remind you all is well just to see a concert. But the concert was amazing despite my terror of being around so many people. Blah!

 

[KatB]

When cramps last longer than usual and intensifies your PTSD...

When you walk outside and totally forgot your glasses...

When you touch your eyes and realize that you never had it on in the first place...

When the cold bothers you more than hot weather...

 

[Changing4Best]

When the cold bothers you more than hot weather...

I have this too. I spent 9/10ths of this past winter under my blanket snuggled in my rocker recliner. And then it got cold again today, so I did it again all morning. It is a fleece blanket, soft and so wonderful!

 

[Abstract]

... you think you don't have PTSD? :confused::alien: