You Know You Have PTSD When...

[illusionist]

You find yourself continually telling your partner "you never told me that" and start believing he's losing his marbles.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you can no longer differentiate between real and unreal threats; everything's a red flag.

This happens to me a lot. It's so frustrating.



When you think anything that's vague is probably a threat.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you decide to go to the Dr. at the new Urgent Care Center in your town and then freak out, thinking it will probably be a man.

 

[Anrish]

...when the invitation to a meeting with people from your school totally freaks you out.

When you feel like a failure because you can't tell people who haven't seen you in a while how you're doing. When they tell you about being married and having children and you just say that nothing changed (concerning this issues...)...they always look at you with something like pity, I hate this...

 

[Deleted member 19804]

@Anrish :hug: I know how you feel, but you are NOT a failure. You have been through terrible things that hurt you deeply, and they were lucky enough to get to live a normaĺ, ptsd-free life. Just because they had it easy, it doesn't mean you are a failure. You are a survivor, which in a way makes you not only stronger, but also more successful than them :)

 

[The Albatross]

You know you have PTSD when you hyper extend a knee, burn your fingers, cut another finger and apparently have bumped into various things resulting in bruises on your shins and legs... and you didn't feel anything or even know you did it until you got home from work.

Somehow I managed to do all those things in one day (Wednesday) and didn't realize it until I got to the sofa in my pj's. My first awareness was, "I hurt". Then I had to start figuring out why... and found a swollen knee, about 8 bruises, a cut on my finger and burned fingers from touching things that were hot while I was cooking for a client. Doh. :O_o:

 

[Deleted member 27340]

WHEN YOU WANT TO STRANGLE EVERY PERSON WHO SAYS ONE CAN ACTUALLY RECOVER FROM PTSD, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION BECAUSE YOU'RE SO FED UP WITH THAT LIE THERE ARE NO WORDS

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you buy a bunch of cold remedies you end up not needing, because you thought for sure you would need them the minute this cold started. Oh well, save them for sometime you or someone might need them, I guess.

 

[Deleted member 27340]

...when eating right, sleeping right, exercising right, socializing, keeping a steady balance between fun and work, making sure you've got fun things coming up, making meaning out of your life and basically doing ALL THE THINGS PEOPLE CLAIM HELP DEPRESSION for months, yet again prove every moron saying those things work wrong because you're still depressed.

 

[Changing4Best]

@Trauma In one of his articles in the Vault here, Anthony says that depression is part of PTSD. You would have to find the article, but the way I interpret it (my opinion) is that it is part of it no matter what we do. For me, it has something to do with the fact that I cannot have a life that approximates what most folks consider "normal". Who on these forums can escape from depression when their sleep is troubled and broken, when they just all of a sudden lose their train of thought or "find themselves off in left field" when they were last listening to someone, reading a book or whatever. "Focus" ... what's that? The only definition of it that I know of is what a camera does on its subject. Dissociation is a way of life for us, not something that happens once a year or even once a month. It is very likely a daily battle. For me it is anyway! And that in itself makes me depressed! (Also mad at myself, which I just realized is a useless activity!).

 

[Anrish]

@Snowwhite: Thank you for your kind words. You really made me smile and almost cry...*sniff* I will try to look at myself the way you described it. That sounds so much better...thank you again! :hug:

 

[Britt.f7]

When not hearing from a loved one causes you to think you've done something wrong.