Brad Schipke says you can have PTSD without knowing it. He and his partner both missed their own symptoms, thinking PTSD only happened to war veterans. Watch for intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, and anxiety.
Can you have PTSD without knowing it? The answer is 100% yes. You can have PTSD and not be aware of what the symptoms are and still experience the symptoms. This is what happened to me personally and my partner. We didn't know what PTSD was. We thought that PTSD was just something that war veterans got. We thought that it was a form of insanity. That was just our conception of what PTSD was, and we didn't properly understand the symptoms. So if you think that you have PTSD, the best way to understand whether or not you have it is just to educate yourself on the symptoms itself. Are you re-experiencing the trauma again and again, whether it's through intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares, depression, or anxiety? Are you jumpy? But the most important The important thing is that you can heal from this 100%. It doesn't matter how many traumas you've been through. You can heal 100%. That's what you need to hear.
