PTSD Patrol You've Got A Friend For The Road

PTSD Patrol 

Kathie Costos

August 25, 2020

When things are going wrong, and days seem impossible to get through, it is easy to feel alone. People you thought were you friends can turn their backs on you because they do not understand what PTSD is. But you're not really alone.  There are over 8 million more Americans who know exactly how you feel. Most of them are reaching out to help others....just like you.

Search online and you'll find them.

For today's feature video, it is James Taylor singing You've Got A Friend....because you do!

PTSD Patrol Life Lift Living For Love

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

August 24, 2020

The feature video today is Donna Summer I Will Live For Love 💘 and I used this song years ago to give members of the military encouragement to help the heal. Best reason in the world to heal is for those you love. #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Eight years ago, I used I Will Live For Love for a PTSD anti-suicide video for members of the military. They forgot how many reasons they do have to live for those they love. After all, others meant so much to them they were willing to die for them, the least they could do is heal for them.

I Will Live For Love

Lyrics

I never needed someone

''cause I always led a life of my own

Never waited for the ring of the 'phone

Never had anyone here

When I got home

But love's about to change my heart

I'm waiting for the doorbell to chime

When I always lived one day at a time

I thought that I was getting on fine

Never felt I was alone
'til you change your mind

Love's about to change my heart

Could a day be so long

When I always felt secure and so strong

And all the time as I went along

Never thought I would desire

So much to belong

Love's about to change my heart

Love's about to change my heart, ooh

Never ever thought the sky was so blue

Never ever thought I'd feel so new

Always thought I'd know what to do

But I guess I wasn't counting on you

What did I know

I always felt so much on control

I thought I'd make it all on my own

Never thought I would forget

All I have known

Love's about to change my heart

Love's about to change my heart

Love's about to change, change, change

My heart...

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Aitken / Stock / Waterman

Love’s About to Change My Heart lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd. 

PTSD Patrol Standing By You on the Road

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

August 23, 2020

How much better do you feel on a hot day, after a rain storm comes through and cools things off? I love it when there is a sun shower ending the storm. That is the way it feels when you are in your own storm and someone says, "You are not alone" and you know that things just changed.

The featured video today is "Stand By Me" and there were 2 versions of it. I hope they remind you that fear does not have to be part of your life when you have someone standing by you.

That is what is happening all over the country as more and more people reach out to let you know they survived with the help of someone else, and so can you!

PRINCE ROYCE - Stand By Me 2011

And Ben E King

PTSD Patrol celebrating the road ahead

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

August 22,2020

"It's up to you...what's your pleasure?" Isn't it about time someone asked you that question? If you have PTSD, you survived and that is worth celebrating! 

After all the videos I've shared with speeches to help you heal, it seems like a great time to take a break from that and switch to some music.

If you are like me, you are listening to music in the vehicle you drive. I listen to oldies in the car and at home. Music has the power to change the mood I'm in, and safe bet, for you too, even if it is just for a few minutes.

PTSD Patrol nights with snakes on the road

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
August 21, 2020 

With the pandemic raging across the country, mental health professionals have been seeing a spike in patients reporting vivid dreams. To tell you the truth, until I started to read about it, I thought I may have been in need of a mental health visit too. For me, my vivid dreams are always about snakes!

Python

You don't have to have PTSD for this to happen but if you don't then you may be able to understand how trauma survivors have a hard time sleeping most of the time.