You Know You Have PTSD When...

[macca]

When you get startled by your own reflection in the glass door.

 

[rainy_daze]

You get startled or annoyed greatly by the following:

- @macca : "What was that!? Oh, it's just me. Phew... Is that what I look like today?" :hilarious:
- Toaster / cooker ping noise / kettle / many kitchen items and/or noises
- The postman at your door
- The phone
- A loud noise outside (this can be almost anything, and includes cars, people, dogs and weather)
- A person appearing beside you when you least expect it
- A person speaking when you least expect it
- Any sudden movements in your surrounding environment (includes rogue daddy-long legs [crane fly] that somehow make their way into your home and dance around in an erratic and somewhat fear inducing manner :eek:. I'm no :ninja: around these flying things]

Need I go on? :laugh: It's ridiculous really, they are all everyday things. Noises and movement :nailbiting::rolleyes:.

 

[Bedbug]

When you get started every time the "new alert" message pops up while you are reading a post on this forum.

 

[Britt.f7]

When all you want to do is sleep. The depression wins out.

 

[Changing4Best]

Or when you've slept so much that you cannot sleep anymore and you get worried that you will be groggy for your therapy apt and not be able to think.

 

[rainy_daze]

When all you want to do is sleep

I second this ^.

I've shifted from the insomnia to the over-sleeping Britt. Managed to get up today at 10am, and hopefully I can continue to wake earlier, because I was sleeping a good 12 hours or more recently :(. It's an awful feeling just wanting to sleep the day away, isn't it?:dead:.

 

[Britt.f7]

@rainy_daze It's been horrible.

 

[Changing4Best]

I couldn't sleep tonight, so here I am....

 

[Lionheart]

You know you have PTSD when people cause you a minor disappointment and you want to seriously choke the crap out of them.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when little bugs that sting but don't itch drive you crazy with frustration! (no-see-ums).

 

[BlueWeepingRose]

When you wake up in the middle of the night from horrible nightmares.

 

[Changing4Best]

When you have to keep your keys in one spot unless you are out, then they must be in your pocket and you feel for them regularly until you get back home and they are in that special safe spot again. Then and only then can you relax. And may the Lord Jesus help you if you misplace them, you panic!!!