PTSD Patrol learning how to cry again

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
November 3, 2020

There is so much we haven't talked about yet on PTSD Patrol. One of them is the why today's featured video is Jackson Browne, Doctor My Eyes. Before you start to heal PTSD, you may have been doing everything you can to numb pain. After all, that is all you end up feeling because PTSD eats away love, hope, compassion, and all the goodness you felt before. Misery exists and you want it to stop but if you have no idea how much better your life can be, that is all you can think of doing. 

When you get numb, all that pain builds up behind a wall. That is not a good thing,

Just say if it's too late for me

Doctor, my eyes

They cannot see the sky

Is this the prize

For having learned how not to cry?

But once you start to heal, the chance of you starting to cry is about 99%. It almost always happens. It can scare the crap out of you. It is not bad! It is a good thing because it means as you heal, the bricks in the wall start to let go and out comes the bad feelings that have been eating you up.

Good feelings finally have room to move in and take the place of bad ones. So if you are crying, then cry, because the more you do, the more you heal.

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Doctor, my eyes have seen the years

And the slow parade of fears without crying

Now I want to understand

I have done all that I could

To see the evil and the good without hiding

You must help me if you can

Doctor, my eyes

Tell me what is wrong

Was I unwise to leave them open for so long?

'Cause I have wandered through this world

And as each moment has unfurled

I've been waiting to awaken from these dreams

People go just where they will

I never noticed them until I got this feeling

That it's later than it seems

Doctor, my eyes

Tell me what you see

I hear their cries

Just say if it's too late for me

Doctor, my eyes

They cannot see the sky

Is this the prize

For having learned how not to cry?

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Jackson Browne

Doctor My Eyes lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group