You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Venusian]

When you have what every other person in the city wants... a free downtown parking spot in a heated underground parkade, and you take the bus because you can't stand to drive down there.

 

[DMerish]

When after a long day of work you sit down on the sofa and consider the fact that no one's called your phone all day. Nevertheless, it needs to be recharged so get up and look for it, in your purse, coat pocket, the bedroom, the kitchen, the dinning room table, and surfaces in the living room. You go outside and check the car, come back in and check your purse and pockets again, and the bathroom. Finally, you give up and sit back down on the sofa, reach for the remote and the frickin' phone rings and you just about jump out of your skin and become pissed because you were startled by the phone that was next to where you put it when you first sat down on the sofa! :banghead: :confused: :speechless: :clown: :woot:

 

[p-no]

@DMerish Welcome to my life. :eek: :D :banghead: :wacky:

What's also a lot of fun is trying to switch channels with your mobile phone and answering the remote control. :facepalm::speechless: :laugh::banghead:

 

[Hashi]

I use my mobile phone as an alarm clock. Sometimes I'm so confused when it goes off that after trying several other unrelated objects like my deodorant, I finally get to the phone but can't even work out which way up to hold it and end up accidentally taking photos of myself while the alarm continues to ring and ring.

 

[Hashi]

... and I have a daylight alarm clock which I haven't been able to use for three months because I've forgotten how to set it. Reading the instructions again to find out is a major life goal that I hope to be able to manage within the next year or so.

 

[p-no]

One time my alarm clock went off and I had been sleeping so deeply, I stumbled over to the phone, answered it and got really annoyed with the caller not saying anything! Of course, nobody had called, the alarm clock continued to ring! Took me a while to figure out how "the phone" could still be ringing while I had answered it... :confused: :D

 

[Lucycat]

I don't own a dog and never have.

You know you have PTSD when a person shouting at the dog to stop barking is far worse than the actual sound of the dog barking.

It really freaks me!

 

[DharmaGirl]

Lol, do you keep the photos Hashi?

 

[DharmaGirl]

You jump and scream while shopping when passing the motion activated Christmas displays.

 

[DMerish]

p-no and Hashi - The two of you gave me a big, big laff! Great way to start my day :D Thank you!

 

[DMerish]

You don't go Christmas shopping because you can't handle the frustration of not being able to find a place to park, the crowds, all the displays screaming "Buy This", and you can't decide between whether your loved one would prefer this or that, and you know you're going to overspend, and that's going to make you feel pissed at yourself later - so you just don't go!

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you go to a new doctor and get so anxious that your heart rate goes up to 104 :(.