You Know You Have PTSD When...

[Heather]

When you just plain and simply want to kill yourself

 

[Ronin]

When you talk yourself off it as it's ideation in the way of your goals, now to help others with that base covered. ;)

 

[Ronin]

When you get correct-diagnosed ADHD again misdiagnosed as a personality disorder & it's the least of what's pissing you off in access to medical care.

& when useless doctors are all the reasons you self-treated spine injuries multiple times in your life.

 

[Recovery4Me]

When your own family starts using the word 'normies' to explain their lack of understanding of PTSD.:roflmao:

 

[Ronin]

When your friends start with 'green logic. Don't get it'. You want to headdesk, it's not army logic, it's just logic, army logic looks like something completely different. :banghead:

 

[Ocean5]

When you have been up from 2am - from nightmares you don't even remember. Now 6:30am and all you want is an hour of sleep. Too much to ask?

 

[Heather]

When you see your daughters perpetrators mother and go into a full blown panic. Turn your car around and head as fast as you can in the opposite direction.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

When you can't tell the difference between your intuition and hypervigilance.

When you can't escape into sleep because you're plagued by nightmares.

When you get anxious and for whatever reason it pisses you off and you want to punch a wall.

 

[Anrish]

When you feel small and vulnerable in front of certain people - even if you know your power.

When you don't want to leave the house.

When you look first in the floor to avoid talking with your landlord... (They're nice people but sometimes it's just me...)

 

[jaccat]

When you're playing a (very rare) board game with friends and, of the six of you, you turn out to be the one with the darkest, most twisted sense of humour.

 

[Ronin]

Cracked up at that, Jaccat.

Darkest, perhaps. Most twisted, I'm by all chances not there. Least vocal about darkest & most twisted, too. Darn, this wasn't a safety of company, who's-the-darkest-thing-in-the-room, checklist. Nevermind. :D:hug:;)

 

[Ocean5]

@BlackbirdSinging

When you can't tell the difference between your intuition and hypervigilance.

That's a good one!

Then you tell yourself you are just being hypervigilance - only to realize you should have listened to intuition. Or vice versa.