You Know You Have PTSD When...

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you're watching tv and the surround sound you've had for years triggers your startle response. And you jump when a man's voice comes across the speakers to narrate a commercial you've seen a million times.

 

[becvan]

You have to set alarms to remind yourself to take the medications that helps you to remember to do things.

and every time the alarm goes off, you jump and then swear at it

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you turn down the wrong street to go home.

 

[Britt.f7]

When you have difficulty going back to the city the trauma occurred in, despite it having family there.

 

[ninja]

When you have a malfunctioning (emotional/mental) "reset" button: goes off when it shouldn't, and won't budge when you want it to. :wideeyed:

 

[p-no]

When you come home to find the locks to your house changed (house with several rental apartments), your key won't work and you do a quick analysis of your options which leaves you with nothing but ringing other tenants' door bells and you decide to ring "Blessin" first and "Angel" next because they MUST BE nice people. LOL :D
(Of course they weren't home... :facepalm:)

 

[zaniara]

When you're depressed and hurting really bad from what probably is grief too- but then dissociate it all because you constantly hear a voice inside your head tell you that you're exaggerating, are a lying wimp and that you've just deceived everyone and your self Into believing that it's worse than it is. Just so that you could get more sympathy than you are worth getting. - So you shut down and get numb instead. And feel uncomfortable having contact with anyone you've been 'honest' with, and you feel like hitting the road and not ever come back again. Because then everything would be fine. Right?

:banghead: :meh:

 

[DharmaGirl]

You have to have everything match. You couldn't give your son a Star Wars toy, you had to give him the whole set. Not necessarily at the same time, but you had to have the whole set available.

 

[Deleted member 22607]

When you stop watching a TV show because every time someone dies, their family looks sad for a scene or two then shrugs it off and goes on with their lives, and you know that it's not like that. And then you feel sad because you wish it was like that.

When people enter the room you're in without knocking, and you scream.

When your first thought when you enter a new room is: "What's my plan if we're attacked?"

 

[Chincho]

When you jump every time someone comes up behind you, so you learned to recognize your husband's and children's footsteps.

 

[therisa]

Trying to remember, where you placed your wallet/house keys, when it's right in front of you.

 

[JustBe]

When your big plans for Halloween are staying home with the lights off, doors and windows locked,watching a romantic comedy and hoping it will be morning soon.