You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Ocean5]

- Can't explain the bleeding marks on fingers of left hand (and you're right handed.) Then days later can't explain blisters on fingers on other hand. (seriously wtf)

 

[DarkSideOfTheSoul]

When your mind's so screwed up that everything has to be written down in a notebook...then you forget where you put it.

 

[Nighthawk]

When you get in a fight with your therapist that sounds like two 3 year olds fighting for power.

When your T tells you that you exauste her.

When help seems to be a non existant word

And when all sighns of hope have vanished from your view.

 

[Ronin]

When your T tells you that you exauste her.

That seems it may be time for some new, not 'exhausted', therapist.

And when all sighns of hope have vanished from your view.

It's behind a cloud, it will come back up, maybe when your eyes aren't so tired. ;)

 

[Ladyghosthunter]

....you do something so damn stupid that you wonder why the hell you did that in the first place and then start to cry about it knowing you know better.....I had that happen for the last three days.

 

[Ronin]

... when you know making mistakes is how we learn
... at least about other people

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you no longer can identify with this thread, though you used to be able to identify with it very closely. (Maybe this means I am no longer PTSD?).

 

[Ronin]

No, @SheilaKathy, it just means it doesn't click with your particular experience and emotionality right now, that doesn't mean anything else about you or your brain.

 

[jaccat]

When making dinner, you put the biggest egg back in the egg box, because you need to save it (for what, the end of the world?).

 

[Changing4Best]

When you order a quartz crystal and when you get it, there is something about it possibly giving you bad energy if you don't soak it in salt water first, in case someone with "bad energy" might have handled it. So you soak it in salt water just to be on the safe side, just in case. However, you don't really believe in all that "energy" stuff, you just thought it was pretty.

 

[Sandstone]

When you think I really need some quiet time. So obviously I shouldn't have it

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you feel some anxiety and have no idea why. Also when you are afraid to leave your curtains open because a nosey neighbor warned you that someone was looking into your neighbor's window some time ago. You like to leave your living room curtains open, to let some sun in, but you know you will forget to close them and then said nosey neighbor will warn you again and now you have a bunch of tomato plants that need sunlight and you cannot plant them outside until the 10th of May for fear there will be a frost. SIGH.... (I guess I will just deal with the nosey neighbor and tell him to mind his own business. (Not!). I'm too forgetful and I know I will forget to close that curtain, sigh... that is probably why I am feeling the anxiety!