You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Anrish]

When you do sport again and almost cry because you feel your body for the first time in days...

 

[Changing4Best]

@FridayJones OUCH!

 

[Ronin]

When you realize 'emotionally safe' may actually be an area of safety worth paying attention to in your life.
Ouch, that opened door hit my efing head.

 

[Anrish]

When you are at the end of a very long and hard bike tour but it takes you about twenty minutes to decide whether you go to the bakery and get something sweet or not - because you're insecure about the social interaction and would prefer to return home and lock the door behind you.

 

[falling_wave]

One thing happens and it feels like you are playing emotional dominos.

 

[falling_wave]

When you provide months of laughter for your friends, when they remind themselves of the times you went into fright mode.

My friends laugh at my moments as well and if I'm past them I can actually laugh too.

 

[Deleted member 29961]

you know when you have PTSD when...

-your college roommate thinks it'll be a lark to wake you up in the middle of the night and he promptly winds up on the floor flat on his back with you sitting on his chest with that razor sharp k-bar at his throat (you know, the one you keep under your pillow that no one knows about).

-all your best friends greet you with a smile and by your first name while wearing their smartest white uniforms the next time you check into the psych ward.

-if you feel naked when you are not carrying a concealed weapon on you.

 

[Friday]

When you spend a day that's meant 'to remember' trying to forget.

 

[hodge]

FJ, I almost avoided all forums today, or rather yesterday, because of the holiday. It's so painful. I'm sorry.

 

[Anrish]

When you feel ashamed when you didn't remember something correctly - because you're not allowed to make mistakes.

 

[Recovery4Me]

When you are so freakin' stressed that you are afraid that you spelled PTSD wrong and recheck.

When you are thinking of having made a coffee mug that bears the words-
"NOT stressed NOW!"
just to feel empowered.:clown:

 

[Ronin]

When you seriously admire people's writeups of what PTSD is, because you don't need to distribute your short version to people.

(It reads 'Incurable. Lifelong. Physically throws you to the worst moments of your life at complete random. You don't want this shit.')

When PTSD forums make you happy, because they declutter what was you, what was messed circumstances, what was messed works, what health problem fits where, and what's all the simply human, yo, stuff. Lightbulb.

And you feel normal.

When ... busy feeling, forgot words, but once in a while words didn't just sublime away. Huge improvement in your sense of interpersonal communication.