You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Ellabella44]

when you feel youre not worth getting anything for christmas for...

when you have to pack a self soothing bag to take to a visit christmas eve.

when you "disaster plan" any family event because your husband has mother in law (even though shes a great lady), 9 siblings, spouses, and twice that in nieces and nephews.

 

[JustBe]

...when almost Everything is too much to handle almost All of the time.

 

[Karen12]

When someone falls off the GTS with a loud yelp about twenty feet away from you and you start so violently that nearly lose your grip on the bicep curl machine. (She was okay.)

 

[Changing4Best]

... when your weather radio sounds a loud alarm that you had no idea it could do, to announce a dangerous storm and then the power goes out and you have such bad anxiety that you have to take some anti-anxiety medicine for it. (And you had not taken that med for ages!).

 

[Let It Be]

...when your body begins to relax because you know that this year, you will live through Christmas because I don't have to be around family, like I did for years and years.

...when you know that this is more healing for me to realize what I lived through after driving 250 miles to see them to come home with memories I wish I didn't have. I finally stopped as they wouldn't drive to see me.

 

[Changing4Best]

... waking up early on Christmas morning, not because you are excited about opening your presents like you were when you were a kid, but because you have trouble staying asleep most nights.

 

[cindymolly]

This really made me laugh thank you!

 

[cindymolly]

I mean the thread as a whole nb

 

[anthony]

When you're feeling up Rudolph!!!

 

[Changing4Best]

When the day after Christmas feels like you have just been through a war zone. (Not because there were any "wars" in your Christmas, but because when you arranged your life to be peaceful and uneventful to deal with all the past traumas that get triggered, you were not counting upon how eventful and exciting Christmas is)!

 

[DesiretoThrive]

I am reminded I have PTSD when....
I describe my symptoms and the response is most always, "but you LOOK so great"!! OR
when...I get frustrated about my own limitations OR
when...a stranger sneers and says, "I know people who are really disabled and cannot walk". OR
when...I am overly sensitive about going outside due to all of the above.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when your best friend is also PTSD and she is the person you can best relate to. Even though we don't talk about symptoms or anything, we somehow understand one another very well. And our lives mirror image one another. It is so good to have her in my life. She is coming to visit me on Tuesday, so I am very happily awaiting her arrival.