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no_hypocrisy

(49,194 posts)
Fri Feb 16, 2024, 08:19 AM Feb 2024

You know it's PTSD when

you constantly awaken, apprehensive and hypervigilant that your father will continue his narcissistic campaign to abuse you -- and you don't immediately believe that he's been dead for almost a decade.

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You know it's PTSD when (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Feb 2024 OP
Hug XanaDUer2 Feb 2024 #1
Flashbacks seem so real. That's what is so traumatizing & exhausting about PTSD. You are forced to Ziggysmom Feb 2024 #2
Flashbacks are unpleasant. limbicnuminousity Feb 2024 #3

Ziggysmom

(3,635 posts)
2. Flashbacks seem so real. That's what is so traumatizing & exhausting about PTSD. You are forced to
Fri Feb 16, 2024, 11:45 AM
Feb 2024

relive the trauma over and over.

Sending big hugs and wishes of peaceful dreams.

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