You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Changing4Best]

... when you mourn about a new prescription which now makes 13 drugs that you take! (Not to mention over the counter stuff).

 

[Let It Be]

I was somewhere this morning, reading a paper, when someone came up to me, to talk to me.

I don't remember how he got my attention, but he immediately jumped back and made a comment about me. It was like here he was just going to say hello and I must have reacted in a way that he couldn't understand.

I tried to laugh it off by telling him that I must have been really concentrating on what I was reading, but I did feel bad in what he might have seen in how I reacted to him. He did catch me by surprise I guess and he knew it.

 

[Changing4Best]

Being out to lunch with a lot of folks, and not saying a lot but mostly listening. This because I tend to put my foot in my mouth a lot. So rather than do that, I try not to say a lot. Even so, I did put my foot in my mouth once today at lunch with one girl. I did try to say something nice to her later on, to hopefully put that experience behind us.

 

[Recovery4Me]

@SheilaKathy love your new photo. You look beautiful. :hug:

You know you have PTSD when a car follows you and you can feel it. You stop at the traffic light, angle your mirror to see the license number and driver. Switching lanes and fall behind the car...you notice the car now is seriously following you by slowing down more to run abreast. You get your car weapons in gear...stare the guy in his sunglasses with your best Clint EastWood dare. He then smiles, flashes his police badge and then drives off in the unmarked car. :banghead:

 

[zaniara]

When you after being baptized panic because it's really hard feeling it as if Jesus is so close 24/7... :alien: (closeness= very difficult for more than brief moments) - and also am breaking down even worse when a lot of the people in the parish are really warm and caring and are trying to help you with some of your practical problems.

When you're hurting too badly to handle seeing people at all- and then cry because you feel so lonely. :banghead: When you make too little sense to your self to be able to explain anything of anything to anyone else.

When you're conviced everyone else is as sick and tired of you as you are, and then gets so confused by their warmth that you need to run because they're messing your reality up.

When you spend many hours each day locked up in your second, very, very tiny bathroom(the size of a closet) because it is the only place you feel safe. And you actually are considering staying the night there.

 

[Friday]

When one of your tasks for the day is to see if TSA still allows parachutes as carry on luggage or has banned them again. Even though you know statically, you have the same chance of being in a collision as being struck by lightning while being attacked by a shark.

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G2G

 

[Changing4Best]

When you are about to go to your birthday party and you cannot imagine what you will say to anyone, being rather shy today. Your closest friend who would normally have been there has to drive her husband to a doctor's appointment many miles from here and won't be at the party, making the situation ten times worse!

 

[Friday]

Happy Birthday :)

 

[Friday]

When you and your child are both on timeout.

 

[Friday]

When you buy your child the 25cent 'feeder' goldfish as 'practice grief'.

 

[Friday]

When you've been to 4 funerals for people, but the durn fish are as alive as can be.

((Turned out to be mislabeled Koi. 1" long Koi. Stupid fish.))

 

[Friday]

When you read a thread about a sufferer arming their supporter with tasers and knives in hairbrushes for birthdays and holidays and do the little
:inlove::inlove::inlove: :gasp!: Awwwww. That's soooo sweet! :inlove::inlove::inlove:

... Before you realize apparently those aren't considered romantic gifts. Whoopsies. Guilty.

But. But. But ...I'm showing how much I trust you to be capable, smart, and strong (and not murder me in my sleep), and how much I value your continued existence / want you to be around forever! Okay. Taking note that edged weapons, less lethal options, and firearms need to be for St. Patricks day or the next Eid. Not birthdays and valentines day.