You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Changing4Best]

when I get these episodes that last only a short time, but during them I cannot function well. I feel weak and strange... Like I am going to faint.

 

[Ronin]

When you like these situations for the challenge of them, you'd just prefer different timing and not have people you can't watch (out for) meantime.
When another thing bothering you is time confusion and it taking a while to figure who's supposed to have your back now.
(Aka really thanks for helping me ID what's bother me about those black outs that bad, ladies. ;) )

 

[Recovery4Me]

When your emotional trigger list is longer than your to do list.

 

[Ronin]

You conceptualize healing as just another kind of a fight to be able to see it as something real and needing to be done. It doesn't feel less pathetic because it's So Not The Same.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you have a super duper anxiety attack when Person B gets really angry at person A because you told person B what person A said about them and then you feel like the monkey in the middle as daggers fly. And there is that anxiety again....

 

[jaccat]

When you find a poem you have no recollection of writing. Then you find a comment next to the poem telling yourself you have no recollection of writing it, only you've no recollection of that either!

 

[Ronin]

When you're often in the same situation with coordinates. But you congratulate yourself on that, because at least you have an idea why you might have written that bit.

 

[Changing4Best]

... when you dread being in close proximity of a man named Bill who got chewed out yesterday because you told your friend Mary what he said about her. Since you know sooner or later that you will run into him, dread slowly builds....

 

[Ocean5]

When you try and try to get things done. Force yourself. Yet every task makes you so tired.

 

[Anrish]

When you start to back off where other people just begin to have fun.

When you rather do crazy things all by yourself than doing something in a group.

 

[Deleted member 19804]

When you never go into details about your trauma with loved ones; not just because it triggers you, but because you think it might traumatise them.

When you then continue to pretend you're fine

When you've become so good at pretending you're fine that you start believing it yourself...

Until you run into the next trigger.

 

[Anrish]

@Snowwhite : I'm totally with you on that. Pretending can be so strong and destructive at the same time. :( ....:hug: