You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Let It Be]

...when you go to a place and while there you run into two people that you know.

It is like all the fear and the history of these two people was so overwhelming. I was back re-living all those moments of knowing them. Of course, I had to talk to them and carry on a conversation but all the time, my "little girl" was reminding me of what I lived through with them.

...when you know you need to give yourself some time and some self-care to get over what you experienced in order to feel better.

 

[Deleted member 29899]

Oh my gosh! #7 and #9 almost made me pee my pants laughing! I'm still laughing at #9! If I get more than 2 hrs I feel 'fortunate'!

 

[Deleted member 29899]

You know you have PTSD when you own more than 200 famous self-help, psychology, philosophy and inspirational books but haven't gotten through even one of them because you have zero concentration.

 

[Ronin]

When being prevented from acting is many times worse than anything else you did or was done.
When in crisis, it's a goal to keep moving so not a time for falling apart, and after that? We're over it, why process it :D Come back to you later.
When talking about your life just feels as too much of drama waves and we're not making those. Keep sailing.

 

[illusionist]

When you have been telling yourself you have early onset dementia, for the past 30 years.

 

[Deleted member 29899]

And the one 'growing up your best friend was a social worker'! Almost peed reading that! Thank goodness we can laugh about this crap.

 

[Flossy]

....when you ask your husband questions like "do normal people think they're going to die when they feel tired?".

 

[Flossy]

....when you know you can't live without a bathtub in your home because that's your safe place, with a washer across your chest to protect you, the shower curtain pulled right back, the door open, the louvres closed and your hands curled together on your chest.

 

[Flossy]

....when you have picked out the Public Housing unit you will apply to live in if/when your husband dies before you and already intend to ask for an end one because you will go insane if they give you one in the middle of two others....and you just know the look in your eyes will make the admin officer not argue about that factor.

 

[Flossy]

Oh f..k, it won't have a bathtub.

 

[Friday]

When your feet being hot in the middle of the night is perfect justification to strip bare ass naked and head outside for a cigarette, cause if you can't cool down pronto bad things will happen, and anything touching you is gonna get shredded. Eff modesty for efficiency & frugality. Cheerful wave to the neighbors. Bugger off. Remember belatedly a shower might have worked, too. Ah well. Priorities.

 

[Friday]

Super stealthy. Highly alert to the number of feathers in each bird's wing beats. Identifying both cars in traffic by engine noise, and species of fish jumping by splash, with momentary pause to notice and categorize 11 types of air traffic overhead... Walks face first into sliding glass door.

:facepalm:

Brain. About these priorities...