You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Ronin]

@Recovery4Me, on another hand... we've got awesome think tank going on here, I'm not giving up hope :P

 

[Ocean5]

door-jam.... in a friendly house-hold.

Seriously relate. Door jam better than deadbolt since it can't be unlocked from outside. Last apartment door jam didn't work with floor type...so I'd put a chair with a box of cans against door (made no sense - secure building.) If it was opened during night knew it would wake me up when it fell.... No rational reason for this expect youth, but when is PTSD rational?

Yet I can be in a new developing country, within hours I am exploring off the beaten path places without fear. But at night to sleep (or try to)....I need to feel very secure. Seems to have gotten worse older I get.

- When you have spent way too much time researching products to make your apartment secure like door security bars.

 

[Recovery4Me]

@Ocean5 I totally can relate.:p

 

[Ronin]

- ... when 'screw 'home' security' is a thing & you're instead busy having scheduled with whom you're camping, for how long, and where, and where to go from there

- when ... nevermind, home is where I put on tax forms it is & the rest vaya con Dios, we're not thinking about that

- your workable definitions of 'home' are all transitory & mostly people

 

[Nighthawk]

When you hear a noise and you and your kid both jump. Then kid turns to you and says you created their anxiety

 

[Anrish]

When you are too sensitive for other's negative emotions and don't know how to handle them because you fear an angry outburst.

 

[notsurewheretoturn]

When you are already halfway through the argument before anyone has even physically entered the scenario going on in your head.

 

[jaccat]

When you know stuff but don't know how you know because you can't remember how you came to know so don't know if you really know what you know or just think you know what you know!:bored:

 

[Ronin]

When the above is one of the daily problems with memory you run into.

And you go looking for days where you could have gotten it that's as far away from your life as possible. Just quoting others? That's safe.

 

[Ocean5]

- When you feel safer living outside your own country (when most would feel more afraid).
- Just the thought of being anywhere near where you grew up causes major ptsd symptoms.
- You go from daily buzz cut every morning - to weekly, and having to wear hat. (ok that's more depression I guess)

 

[notsurewheretoturn]

When the words 'Don't I know you from somewhere...?' freak you out BIG style.

 

[Ronin]

When that phrase gets automatic replies, none being amiable and all being run for the hills, as diplomatically as can be.