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You Know You Have PTSD When...
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jaccat
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When lack of sleep acts like a total personality transplant, from :shy: to :mad: in one easy step.
Recovery4Me
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When sleep becomes listed as one of your rare hobby interests.
When you make a PowerPoint listing of cognitive distortions.
When GAD starts looking good to you for some down time from flashbacks.
When you can't quite grasp who triggered first during a PTSD conversation but now you are both on eggshells.
When you are rolling on the floor with laughter from some of the humor within PTSD commonalities, but the onlookers next to you, are getting very quiet.
When you want to post in the What Did You Do For Somebody Else Thread...as not overreacting.
When someone ask about who you trust & without hesitation- you say or think your pet's name.
When you make a PowerPoint listing of cognitive distortions.
When GAD starts looking good to you for some down time from flashbacks.
When you can't quite grasp who triggered first during a PTSD conversation but now you are both on eggshells.
When you are rolling on the floor with laughter from some of the humor within PTSD commonalities, but the onlookers next to you, are getting very quiet.
When you want to post in the What Did You Do For Somebody Else Thread...as not overreacting.
When someone ask about who you trust & without hesitation- you say or think your pet's name.
rainy_daze
Diamond Member
When someone acknowledges your childhood, what it was really like, and you try to listen to them while the memories are flooding your head.
When you zone in and out of the conversation because you weren't expecting someone to be giving you sympathy/understanding for times you should never have had to endure.
When flee feels like the best form of defense. Or when freeze is so habitual, you didn't know it was abnormal. Or when fight becomes ingrained in you, because you weren't taught how to communicate the feeling of anger. Or when you use the fawn approach because you think somehow pleasing other people will make your life less stressful and easier [yuck :yuck::nailbiting::locktopic:].
[You know you're accepting your trauma/past when...] When you finally open your eyes, see the past for what it was, and accept that it cannot be changed, but how you cope with the present here and now can be changed. When you clearly see your patterns, and you work hard at changing the negative ones. When you finally see the people you have chosen to be in your life, and know that it is up to you how much they impact upon you.
When you zone in and out of the conversation because you weren't expecting someone to be giving you sympathy/understanding for times you should never have had to endure.
When flee feels like the best form of defense. Or when freeze is so habitual, you didn't know it was abnormal. Or when fight becomes ingrained in you, because you weren't taught how to communicate the feeling of anger. Or when you use the fawn approach because you think somehow pleasing other people will make your life less stressful and easier [yuck :yuck::nailbiting::locktopic:].
[You know you're accepting your trauma/past when...] When you finally open your eyes, see the past for what it was, and accept that it cannot be changed, but how you cope with the present here and now can be changed. When you clearly see your patterns, and you work hard at changing the negative ones. When you finally see the people you have chosen to be in your life, and know that it is up to you how much they impact upon you.
The Albatross
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@ Flossy https://www.myptsd.com/threads/you-know-you-have-ptsd-when.8872/page-138#post-859922 OMG... this has happened to me several times, but one of the three it was the barber they shared the shop with and it freaked me out. But yeah Like Flossy's post, my brain actually works like that when someone seems to know me and I can't place them. Sometimes I never can figure it out and it's happened like 3 times with my lady client... pretty embarrassing and she looks curious and I just shrug my shoulders and say something like "I often draw a blank, sorry I couldn't introduce you... don't remember the name or who they are." Sometimes it will come to me as much as a couple of weeks later... sometimes it never does.
You put that into words in a great way - and emoticons. I feel the same very often and I like your description a lot.
...when you are so freaked out by all the people around you that you cannot even enjoy the books in the book shop.
....when you cut yourself accidently (slipped with the knife while cutting bread rolls) and the only reaction you show is...watching your finger and the cut and wonder "No blood yet?"...it started bleeding but I didn't care.
jaccat
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I did this at work the other day. I was in the warehouse with the boss and he said is your arm all right? It took me a while find it, but eventually I realised there was blood all over my arm. My reaction: Oh, I should probably wash that. He gave me a very funny look:whistling:.
ForagingChef
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Yup! No reaction when I accidentally took the end of my finger and fully half the nail off with a knife.
Leah Morgan
Gold Member
Lol took the end of my toe off, blood everywhere needed stitches I didn't notice my kids nanny did! This is a very funny thread I'm pleased it's kept going.
Leah Morgan
Gold Member
lol - I'm now lovingly know as Fainty mcfaintasion - when I super panic not just merely freak this happens. My friend all remind me of when I freaked on a roller coaster when the chest bar was closed and "trapped me" I lost it scream blue murder sweating they let me off and I passed right out. Comedy Central now, not then!
BlackbirdSinging
Diamond Member
When you fall asleep reading an article about how PTSD affects sleep.
When you get a total of 6 hours of sleep in 48 hours.
When you get a total of 6 hours of sleep in 48 hours.
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When you accidentally cut yourself while preparing a meal and you are afraid that your therapist is going to think that you are back to cutting on yourself.
When you have a larger support group than you do a group of friends.
when you haven't slept for days and wind up in the slammer and your sleeping cellmate suddenly appears to turn into a werewolf and you freak out.
When you have a larger support group than you do a group of friends.
when you haven't slept for days and wind up in the slammer and your sleeping cellmate suddenly appears to turn into a werewolf and you freak out.
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