About a week or 2 ago I was sitting in the car with a friend thinking to myself 'if I was going to explain my PTSD to someone, how would I say it?', and then I realised I couldn't remember what had happened to me to suffer from PTSD in the first place. It took me a minute or 2 of scanning through my mind to remember bits and pieces. I even thought to myself for a moment 'do I even have PTSD?'. I tried to think of what symptoms I had, and I couldn't remember any of them (bare in mind that I do suffer to some extent or another almost every symptom because I had it for so long without being diagnosed). This when on for a few minutes until some of it came back to me.
Now ever since then, I remember why I had PTSD, but I still can't remember vividly. I feel blank about it, I know what happened, I know who these people were, I know when and where, but I really have to THINK about it to remember. It feels really vague to me, it's like the information is stored there, but it's some vague memory that I don't have the energy to remember properly.
This has just come out of nowhere, I find it really strange. Is this common? Hopefully what I've just explained makes sense.