You Know You Have PTSD When...

[NoWhereKnowWhere]

When the crazy person on the bus is.... You trying to talk yourself out of a panic attack.

 

[Wounded Scribe]

When people ask, "Hey, do you work out?"

"No. Why do you ask?"

"You've got some amazing guns, how did you're biceps, get so developed?"

"...oh, that. I have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and I take a ton of meds every day, several times a day. I must have gotten MASSIVE because I lift my pills."

...or...

"Hey, you look fabulous. Are you training for a marathon?"
"No. Why do you ask?"
"Dude. You're cut. How much cardio do you get done everyday?"
"Oh. That. I spend a lot of time running..."
"What are you running for?"
"I am running away."
"From what."
"I don't know...and you wouldn't understand."

...or...

If you feel more at home inside of a mental health unit, instead of the outside world, and you feel safer with the patients within, than the good people on the outside, because the people inside aren't hiding behind the mask, like the folk outside. The folk outside, with their plastic masks, they are the abusers no one sees who abuse the people, who eventually arrive inside of the mental health unit.

If you can relate to this, you may have PTSD

 

[Deleted member 27340]

@Wounded Scribe :hug:
I can relate. I'm not asked the same questions as you, but people don't get that I can climb two hours every single day without training for anything in specific.

 

[Karen12]

When people think you are psychic because you can anticipate people's next actions.

And they are suspicious of/resent you for it.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

@Wounded Scribe

Hm, the first and second never happen, I run away from people often to fast to have a conversation.

The third one, well, I feel more at home on this page than I do elsewhere.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you're scrolling in facebook and you see a picture someone in your family posted. It's a picture of a person who is best friends with an ex abuser. And your heart starts pounding and your hands start shaking and you get anxious and hypervigilant. And you get angry at how easily you get triggered. Especially when you get triggered over a picture of a person who isn't even the ex abuser.

 

[Seagreen]

When someone asks you how you are and you secretly want to tell them to "go f#ck themselves" but smile sweetly instead and reply "good thanks".

 

[Seagreen]

When you are dissociating so much youre mistaken for a statue

 

[Seagreen]

When you finally meet someone you can trust and pour your heart out to, and that someone is a goldfish.

 

[amethist]

When you can talk all day to a stuffed dog, but not utter a word to your therapist.

 

[Friday]

When it honestly doesn't register why some people have a problem with ___insert something commonly seen as a big deal here , but you totally get why seemingly normal trivial things weigh 10,000lbs and leave you exhausted and panting on the floor, after.

 

[Deleted member 27340]

...When you send your best friend a message asking about what a convo you had in schoo was about because you forgot, but could remember that it included something about going over to your place and do something. After that you felt you had to add "If the convo was real, though" because your days and dreams float together into a huge mess where nothing's really clear at all.

...When you have to force yourself into doing your beloved sport and everything else you love because there's no point in anything at all, until you're actually there doing it and suddenly remember that is is really fun after all. Your brain fog just makes that hard to remember, and you often need someone to push you a little into doing what you like unless you'll never get around doing it.