You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Anrish]

When you try to verbalize what's going on. After the other person answered you just feel lame...and like exaggerating, but inside it feels real.

 

[Hydrotroop91]

Your friends don't understand why you are so upset and then get frustrated when you don't cheer up.

Then they get mad if you don't call them, text them, or somehow contact them because you don't wanna talk with anyone or explain your feelings.

 

[Changing4Best]

When several folks say that a man wants to be introduced to you and then he gets fresh with you verbally and you think that the ones who told you he wants to be introduced set you up and are all laughing at you behind your back, especially since one of them makes a joke about it after the guy has done it.

 

[rainy_daze]

When you are so filled with dread your shoulders tense and you check your pulse, trying to calm down to a relaxed state. Your heart is beating too fast. Then your phone rings and you jump, and you decide to put it on silent for the day. This feeling of dread physically hurts.

When you long for some time to yourself, so you can rest/recover from being around people [or maybe that is just me being an introvert :facepalm:].

 

[Recovery4Me]

When you realize that some of the closest people in your life, never really saw you but judged only your symptoms. The revelation of how transparent or tentative your relationships were unfold the walls around you. As you step over the tumbled enclosure, anchored by an acronym, you decide... it is time to live unashamed of being different.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you're sitting outside on the deck reading a book trying to relax and you see something move out of the corner of your eye. And it startles you so much that you jump and are about to jump up from your chair. And then you turn to see that what moved was actually your shadow when you had moved to cross your legs.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you get home from shopping and put your stuff away, you open the bag from the drugstore and take out the over-the-counter med from it and then absent mindedly throw out the bag with your prescription for one of your psych meds in it! Later, when you run out of said med, you cannot find it (of course) and start searching the house. Finally you think to check the garbage, thinking that if the empty bag is in there with the drug info stapled to it, maybe you can discern if you at least brought it into the house (or left it in the car of the person who gave you a ride to the drugstore and grocery). You find the bag in there with the bottle still in it! You figure out what happened then. UGH! (Thankfully you did not miss a dose at least).

 

[Deleted member 19804]

When a friend gives you a ride somewhere and you are immediately thinking "what if something happens to her on her way back? It would all be my fault. I should have just gone on my own."

 

[Sazza]

When everyone around you is living and you're merely existing in a bubble disconnected from the world.

 

[Lucycat]

isolation feels great.

 

[Candleflames]

when you spend all day trying desperately to stay awake only to spend all night trying desperately to fall asleep!

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you're playing a game with your family and you keep catching yourself dissociating.