You Know You Have PTSD When...

[CBX9]

When you feel heavy and tired.and react to the smallest things going on around you. :)

 

[Changing4Best]

When you just cannot get comfortable while sleeping during the night, but then can get comfortable when it is light outside. So you end up sleeping during the day a lot.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

You know you have ptsd when you forget to lock the back door at night.

 

[LostWorld]

When you walk into the bathroom and lift up the hamper only to realize this not the toilet

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you find a cockroach running around your room. And it manages to get on your bed and run around. And it becomes a two hour task of not screaming and killing it before you can calm down enough to go to sleep. And then you worry if you go to sleep you'll have nightmares about it.

 

[NIKI]

Still struggling with the sound of a soda/beer can being popped open. I want to cover my ears because it floods back the oppessive memories of the thousands of beer cans my father popped open during my childhood and early adulthood. I am not around him anymore to hear "HIS" cans but the sound is still the worst sound in the world to me. :banghead:

 

[Zef]

You know you have PTSD when . . .you have created a whole set of rules in your head for how people should use the fast lane on the freeway and get pissed when another driver dares to break one of your rules

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you find out your therapist is going to be out of the office for three weeks. And you start to wonder if she like everyone else is just looking for a way to get out of your life and away from you.

 

[rainy_daze]

You know you have ptsd when you forget to lock the back door at night.

...or when you make sure the door is locked, and won't go to bed without checking. One is the forgetful side of PTSD :meh: and the other is the "I must save myself from danger" PTSD :eek:.

...When you fly off the handle for a minor reason, and then say sorry, noticing the alarmed look on a person's face, and you kick yourself in your brain for not remembering to be less stressed :(.

...When you've felt stressed for so long, you're starting to forget what feeling relaxed is like.

...When every noise outside startles you, and you long for silence.

 

[ninja]

Why in the world is talking on the phone so scary?!

 

[Red Feather]

When you are in a big rush to get to an appointment but realize at the bus stop that you are an hour early. :banghead:

 

[p-no]

When you're almost 20 years into treatment (with breaks) and still make HUGE mistakes that you should by now be able to do without... :(