You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Deleted member 29961]

you ripped your earring out while you were asleep

Ouch! that sounds painful.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

Ouch! that sounds painful.

Thankfully I didn't hurt myself. I just had to go looking for my earring and it's back.

 

[Ronin]

It's not what you're uncomfortable with that's your reason for concern. It's what you're comfortable.

You have two halves to your life: The life in which nothing bothers you, and the part in which you try to get caught up on the first.

 

[Ronin]

...when armageddon strikes, despite the fact you wont live to see 40, you believe that you'll be the one bastard who survives it.

... And you'd have to pause-and-move (as in pause to think but not really, be moving while you're on that) because Oh shit, life's so beautiful with everything going to hell, why didn't I notice it before?

 

[Deleted member 19804]

When years after a traumatic event you're still not sure if you should go to the police, because a part of you still blames yourself for what happened.

 

[Anrish]

When a short visit in a shopping mall puts you under so much pressure that you cannot talk anymore and bite the inside of your lip bloody...and that's the only thing keeping you in the here and now to be able to drive home.

 

[Changing4Best]

As I have gone out to lunch every Sunday with folks from my church who give me rides to and from church, I have finally started to share my ideas with the group and they have been so nice to me. I feel this is a major step in the right direction for me, as I used to just sit there and say nothing while everyone else talked. I would listen, but not reply. Now I can reply. And they are so nice to me! They reply back to me with their opinions and ideas too. It is such a joy!

I tell all of you this, to give you hope. I hope it helps you.

 

[void]

....when you discover that dissociation ( which has been your personal normal ), is in fact NOT normal

 

[Ronin]

You wake up with 'no' on your lips & hundred and one variants of You-goddamn-bastard.

Only to realize those people are no longer there.

And it still doesn't click. You tell them they're not there, but you still are with them. Shake it off sistah, there's painkillers & enough water and the sun is a sun of an entirely different continent.

 

[Anrish]

When you control yourself until you're alone and then break down completely - even if its during a drive on the high way. ...crying and drving is a stupid combination. :cry:

 

[Deleted member 19804]

:hug: :hug: :hug: @Anrish :hug: :hug: :hug:

 

[Deleted member 19804]

When your friends are having a lot of fun discussing their "worst dates ever" and you can't join in, because your worst date ever resulted in your PTSD.