You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Rosewater]

When your wife's family can't help themselves from giving you that pathetic doe eyed look while asking "how ARE you" like they're talking to a 6 year old.

 

[Recovery4Me]

When family states," I don't have to work with anyone else this hard to communicate."
And then you consider they were still present when you dissociated.

 

[Ronin]

When family states," I don't have to work with anyone else this hard to communicate."

Only people that are real shit at communicating, themselves, complain about how someone else is 'hard to communicate with'.

The others just modify their communication by the other people & situation's requirements. ;)

(So it really isn't you, Recovery.)

 

[Recovery4Me]

@Cashew :hug: Today, I will accept that because it allows me a moment to be smug and giggle.

 

[Ronin]

Be all smug & giggle, @Recovery4Me, you totally deserve a good time. ;)

Topical: ... When you time the good time and then decide you're goddamn preserving the good seventeen minutes fourteen seconds, by gods.

 

[Ocean5]

When cousin sends you cute photos she found from when you were very little. I was 5 or so. First formal is like so cute...next one someone else took...just looking at body language....thinking...WOW I was a very tense kid at such a young age.

Walking down wedding isle in ceremony for godfather, and my fist are both clinched. Kinda shocking to see.

 

[Anrish]

When a certain kind of game works like a trigger for you. You would have fun...you know that but you're too scared and tremble for most of the time and can't even talk.

 

[Ronin]

When multiple games do that & you're still trying to mostly stay off as reclaiming was another road of excess.

 

[Friday]

When you feel guilty for not doing what other people feel guilty for doing. :meh:

 

[Friday]

On a serious note, inflicting harm on anyone doesn't make them understand. It just makes them hurt.

This needs to be bolded / pinned somewhere at eye height.

 

[Ronin]

... 'or hurt and laughing into your face, and you're not /that/ self-harmy, Friday'.

That for a generic thought and one on my fridge will read 'C'.

 

[Lionheart]

when you compulsively lock all the doors of your house...over and over and over.