When your job is to transition into something better than PTSD

Are you transitioning or surrendering?
PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
July 8, 2018

Life is about transitioning from one place to another. In this case, we're talking about the transition from surrendering to something that happened into being a survivor and using your transmission to move you forward.

WHAT DOES A TRANSMISSION DO? 
From Meineke
How Does an Automatic Transmission Work?

An automatic transmission is essentially an automatic gear shifter...Have you ever heard the sound of your engine getting higher, then lower as your car accelerates? A car in a low gear will start struggle as its pushed to higher speeds. A car with an automatic transmission has a torque converter that senses these changes as you accelerate and shifts you to a higher gear. The same process works in reverse as you slow down.

TRANSITION

movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Music.
a passing from one key to another; modulation.
a brief modulation; a modulation used in passing.
a sudden, unprepared modulation.
a passage from one scene to another by sound effects, music, etc., as in a television program, theatrical production, or the like.

There are things you may have told yourself, that are simply not true!

The first lie is when you told yourself there was something wrong with you. The truth is, there is something strong within you!

If you chose a job where you knew it could kill you, military, law enforcement, firefighting or any of the other jobs protecting others, that choice came from a very strong emotional core.

Civilians can get hit by PTSD from just one event in their lives. When you consider how many events you survived, it should make more sense that you would get hit harder, than escape it because of your training.

You may be resilient, but that does not mean you are impervious to what your jobs did to you.

If you do not have PTSD, then make sure that you keep doing the steps for Crisis Intervention for yourself. That starts with being able to open up about what you witnessed from an emotional level, not just a tactical one.

Every time I survived something that could have killed me, I was able to talk about all of it knowing I mattered to someone. It helped me get out the ugliness of what I was faced with so that good stuff could get back in.

If you already have PTSD, then you can heal too! It is just that some of what you survived has taken hold and cannot be undone. You still have the power to limit the power it has over you.

Most of the time, those with PTSD getting proper treatment, have turned into being better than they were before. 

Do you want to live a better life? Then start by telling yourself you are worth it instead of telling yourself you deserve to suffer. You put your life on the line for the sake of others and YOU DO DESERVE TO LIVE A HAPPIER LIFE! 
UPDATE

I Am Changing

Look at me

Look at me

I am changing

Trying every way I can

I am changing

I'll be better than I am.

I'm trying

To find a way

To understand.

But I need

I need

I need your help.

I am changing

Seeing everything so clear.

I am changing.

I'm gonna start right now right here.

I'm hoping to work it out.

And I know that I can

But I need you

I need a hand.

All of my life I've been a fool

Who said I could do it all alone.

How many friends have I already lost?

And how many dark nights have I known? Walking down that long road. There was nothing you could buy.

All those years of darkness

Could make a person blind.

But now I can see that

I am changing

Trying every way I can

I am changing

I'll be better than I am

But I need a friend

To help me start

All over again.

That would be just fine

I know it's gonna work out this time

Cause this time I am,

This time I am

I am

Changing.

I get my life together now.

I am changing

Yes I know how

I'm gonna start again.

I'm gonna leave my past behind

I'll change my life.

I make it up

And nothing is gonna stop me now.

Songwriters: Hendry D. Krieger / Tom Eyen I Am Changing lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group