I don't have PTSD now. What I'm wondering is if I ever did. Around last February or so, at random times during the day, I'd start having these images flash in my head. Maybe things I've seen, or things I've pictured; but they were all horribly graphic, painful images of things that were happening recently in my life. Around that time, I'd learned that many of the people I'd loved were suicidal, and I just saw pictures of them. I'd, like, grab my head and close my eyes real tight till the images went away; but it sucked sometimes, 'cause I'd be in public. What I found out was that this was being caused by some of my medication. I described it to someone who said to check my medications online for side-effects. I did and hallucinations or something was one possible outcome. I stopped taking the pills, and they went away. It wasn't psych medication, though. I've never taken any psych medication, although I should. It was to make me hungry and help recover from surgery.
Anyway, does that sound like PTSD? That's what I was told it was before I ever found out the medication was causing it. But I was wondering if it "PTSD" or something similar or completely different? I'm just trying to understand these things as much as I can.
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