You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Ocean5]

- When you wake-up trying to figure out if in serious withdrawals from medicine...or side effects from build-up of medicine over time.
- When the show "Bates Motel" on A&E feels like home. Different story, but feels like home. Kinda scary. You relate with too many of the characters.

 

[Changing4Best]

When you call someone and they don't return your call. So you try to plan around the fact that they might still call back by leaving your afternoon free, just in case they do call and want to go to the place you already went to in the morning.

 

[Ronin]

You need to be told you're supposed to tell people something happened.
And that you don't need to re-ask permission to speak about your own health state. :shifty::whistling:

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you hear your mom mocking your dad and you just stay in your room because it makes you feel so bad when she does that. And all you really want to do is hug your dad.

 

[Recovery4Me]

You know you have PTSD when you remember doing this during a heavy rain, snow storm, staring at a wobbly ceiling fan or while you thought you were counting sheep...

 

[holdenmonty]

You know you have PTSD when at random times for no reason you just have a f*ck the world attitude.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when all the things you can think of that worry you try to creep into your mind, but you shut all the windows and doors and Won't LET THEM IN!!!!!

 

[Ronin]

When words of praise on helpfulness & good character inspire a quiet meltdown.

 

[Friday]

When ...Oh hell, f*ck it. My head hurts.

 

[Ronin]

When you just had a sistah text you painkillers = if an option then might help clearer thinking/everything you're after, so you're totally passing that wisdom of the day forward.

 

[Anrish]

When you have a dinner with lots of people and they enjoy themselves, get drunk and you feel out of place. And when you want to hide when a local folklore group arrives and invites people to dance (they also picked me....)...when you feel clumsy because you cannot dance and when you laugh just because everyone laughs but deep down you feel empty and helpless.

 

[jaccat]

When your idea of being compassionate to yourself is telling yourself: you're being an idiot, get over it.