You Know You Have PTSD When...

[BlackbirdSinging]

When one of the only places you feel "normal" or understood is here on the forums.

When you can be calm one second and have your heart pounding and your hands shaking in the next second.

When you wish you had a handbook to give to people that had explanations of things you're trying to explain about your symptoms. That way you could just open the book and point and say "THIS!".

 

[Changing4Best]

That handbook sure sounds like a great idea, but sometimes I don't know or understand what is happening to me or I am not even aware that it is unusual or would be considered abnormal.

I wonder if our Psychiatrists might carry such handbooks, none the less; it is worth the asking!

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When your mom says "if I spent as much time in my room with the door closed as you do I'd go crazy".

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you go to google to look something up and you type in google.

 

[NoWhereKnowWhere]

When you lock the door and leave the keys in the lock, on the outside and then freak out when you can't find your keys then you come home. There they are in the lock. I do this at least once a week. I shouldn't be allowed out on my own. Haha

When your standing in the bathroom with dirty dishes and think how the hell do I wash these in here.

 

[LittleL]

When half of the books you own are about psychology and/or trauma.

When, because you're always reading a psych book, your friends start asking if you are(/are planning on) going to school for psychology.

When job applications are the most terrifying part of your day. How am I supposed to convince an employer that I'm good enough when that's the last thing I think of myself?!? :rolleyes:

 

[Moony]

When you're excited about seeing someone you haven't seen in ages, and terrified because you think they probably don't like you anymore :/

 

[Changing4Best]

When you finally push yourself out the door after staying in for a week. It was good though, I walked to the library and asked the librarian what non-fiction she had in that was new. She told me about some of the books, what they were like and so on, and helped me choose one. I normally go in there, select something and leave, just saying the minimum of what I need to say. This time I got talkative and it gained me a book I never would have found on my own.

 

[Red Feather]

Okay, when you are putting make-up on and you put lipstick on your eyelids.

 

[natalya]

....when this site becomes your best frend. lol

 

[Changing4Best]

...when you take so many meds that you have dizziness, which caused you to almost fall through the shower curtain while taking a shower, so now you have to use a shower chair and hose like an old lady.

 

[rainy_daze]

The word "kill" really p*sses you off.

Lots of things that remind you of trauma p*ss you off. Well, reminders make me angry. Grrrr :mad:.

You know you have PTSD when you begin taking deep breaths and try to calm your body and/or thoughts :ninja:.