You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Ronin]

When you spot love if it sits in front of you and waves at you long enough, but goddam can't it stay? :banghead:

You hate your first association to 'love' though still is :blackeye: (blackeye emoticon, for the visually impaired)

 

[ISupportHer]

you ask why is military tracking him...

OMG Santa is on the Homeland Security watch list!

 

[Fadeaway]

When you would rather move to North Korea to avoid any mention of the holiday's and escape being triggered by Christmas decorations and lights.

When you go 3 who days without eating because you are terrified of the fact you know you will be triggered upon entering a grocery store.

 

[Ronin]

When you would rather move to North Korea

When you take these sentences super literally and wouldn't move to North Korea for anything, because you're busy moving away from controlling places life long.

 

[Fadeaway]

Right now it just feels like the less of the two evils.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you can hear literally everything. Like the time when 2 tvs were blasting. One in the living room where you were sitting with your mom and your sister and one downstairs. And you can hear something tiny hitting the floor. So you tell your mom and she checks her dog. And it turns out the dog is trying to chew on and keeps dropping a screw from a pair of eyeglasses.

 

[Anrish]

When you don't know how to face happiness.

When you need to collect courage to go in a store.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you have a good dream wake up and the first thing you think to yourself is "what's that supposed to mean". And you spend like 5 minutes considering whether or not you should try to interpret any meanings from the dream. And then you decide not to.

When you and your family are supposed to meet your daughter's boyfriend's family over the holidays and everyone is excited about it but you. All you feel is like you're sure they're going to judge you. And you just want to stay home but you know you can't. And you feel guilty for even feeling that way.

 

[Anrish]

When people pointing at you make you want to hide....

 

[Ronin]

When... Preferences? What preferences? Survival are my preferences. :p Not giving a f*ck otherwise, can't move myself to care for hypothetics, now what's the next question.

 

[Recovery4Me]

*When your T ask if you want to know what he has your diagnosis listed as and you say as you are leaving, "Doesn't matter, the flashbacks do not care. Maybe next session.".

*When you are assigned to a PTSD live group under a T and you think,"Please God no more 12 steps." :clown:

 

[Friday]

When you start to reply to the 'what makes me angry' thread, but catch up on reading... And laugh so damn hard you forget what made you angry to begin with.