You Know You Have PTSD When...

[AfricaVet]

- when you wake up from surgery and recite the surgeons Christmas vacation plans.

- when the doctor tells you that they're moving you to another bed after cervical spine surgery and you go full awake and start doing it yourself. Followed by everyone grabbing you to stop you and you fighting all of them for your life.

- when you know what every "normal" person will say before they say it on just about any topic and that they're wrong.

- when you start to feel sorry for the delusions of safety and comfort expressed by "normal" people.

- when you tell the sleep laboratory technician that you've had a pretty good nights sleep as he looks at the 105 nightmares you had in the last six hours.

 

[zaniara]

When you can't tell if you're physically ill or severely dissociated..

 

[JustBe]

When just getting through another day is good enough.

 

[ninja]

When the world just feels like one huge condensed grain of salt, pressed tightly against your raw skin.

 

[Abstract]

Sending you support Ninja, Movinon and Zaniera.

 

[Emma13]

When you wish for the drama in your relationship would be PTSD related so you can disassociate or isolate from the person causing the drama.

 

[Changing4Best]

When you dread being around a certain person because you THINK they don't like you, but they have never given you any reason to believe this, but you still think it anyway.

 

[zaniara]

When it takes five hours getting into bed, because you're so tired that you don't want to sleep because you don't want to dream.

When you wake up being startled by the sound your neighbors are making possibly shaking a cover or something outside, but are so confused at first that you think that someone is climbing in on your balcony(3 floors up) and panic.

 

[franciemarnie]

When it's just the two of you living there but your husband has to say, "It's just me honey!" every other time he comes in the room because you shoot up startled from the chair to see him.

 

[rainy_daze]

When your partner throws his wallet on the bed, and the sudden movement causes you to yelp, turn away quickly and shield your face with your hands. Then your partner cuddles you and laughs, saying "Honey, you're shaking, it was just my wallet - sorry, I wouldn't have done that if I'd known you'd get a fright". Then you laugh, try to breathe and ignore the sound and feel of your heart beating loudly, while clinging to your partner for your own life.

^True story :rolleyes:. Gotta love getting startled :facepalm:.

 

[Changing4Best]

When you worry and worry about the same thing, chewing it over and over in your mind, until it just about eats your brain up.

 

[roaminggnome]

When it is only a consult appointment for oral surgery and I'm shaking.