You Know You Have PTSD When...

[jaccat]

When you spot your therapist while you're working and your hyper vigilance kicks into overdrive.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you wake up one morning feeling like someone other than yourself, make a perfect mess of a friendship you've had for a long time and then the next day you feel like yourself again, apologize and wonder if your apology will be accepted. (Apology was through a mutual friend, as the former friend has already blocked you on FB).

 

[holdenmonty]

I hear you there @jaccat I ran into my therapist when I was grocery shopping with my family and even though we both saw eachother and knew we saw eachother we didn't say anything. It would be kind of aquard saying hey guys this is my therapist in the middle of the grocery store...

 

[myheart]

the next day you feel like yourself again, apologize and wonder if your apology will be accepted

I have done that so many times that if I got a nickel for every time I apologize to people, I would be a millionaire!!! (It's nerve-wracking while you wait to see if your apology will be accepted.) :confused:

 

[Changing4Best]

(It's nerve-wracking while you wait to see if your apology will be accepted.) :confused:

It wasn't. The person wrote me a nasty note privately on Facebook and then unfriended me. Oh well....

 

[Ronin]

@SheilaKathy, you've communicated about the situation to the best of your ability, and it's not like you were hurtful; it sounds that person's not able to deal with change without lashing out, and that's not your fault, it's not a difference vanishing quickly. You were being responsible about your behavior, you acted quick on something that's extremely confusing, you don't deserve extra heat for assuming responsibility.

 

[Anrish]

When your mood changes within seconds...and you sit in your office and scratch your face to stay in the here and now - and not start crying (because your trainee might enter anytime to ask a question...).

 

[Britt.f7]

@jaccat and @holdenmonty When I was in my twenties working in a grocery store an old counselor from when I was 16 and hospitalized stopped in. He recognized me and said hello. He then said, "you were going to pretend you didn't know me" or something to that effect. He was right. Even though I liked him. I didn't need people asking where I knew him from.

 

[Anrish]

When you take a look outside to see if anyone might be there because you don't feel like you could handle any other person at the moment.

 

[myheart]

It wasn't.

I'm sorry to hear that.

 

[Changing4Best]

I'm sorry to hear that.

Thanks. Actually, I think I am better off not being put under her spell, not being burdened with her way of seeing things. She's a pretty messed up person and there are far better folks to be friends with, whose friendships would be far more rewarding. SO I am free to spend my time and efforts with them, not bound up in all this intrigue. Thanks for caring.

 

[holdenmonty]

When feeling unusual and on edge is your norm.