PTSD Patrol where everyone knows your name

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 3, 2020

The theme song from Cheers is a special one to me because it addresses how important it is to have friends and support in life.

Sometimes you wanna go

Where everybody knows your name

And they're always glad you came

You wanna be where you can see (ah-ah)

Our troubles are all the same (ah-ah)

When you are trying to heal PTSD, having a support group, especially when you are alone, is a miracle maker. 

The best support group to find is one in your area, and one that is focused on the same cause of PTSD that caused yours. While support from any group is good, when you are all survivors of the same type of event, it is better.

You can witness some who have become stronger at the same time you find hope within their stories, you can also see others who need more help than you may need and then, try to inspire them.

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Making your way in the world today

Takes everything you've got

Taking a break from all your worries

Sure would help a lot

Wouldn't you like to get away?

All those nights when you've got no lights

The check is in the mail

And your little angel

Hung the cat up by it's tail

And your third fiance didn't show

Sometimes you wanna go

Where everybody knows your name

And they're always glad you came

You wanna be where you can see (ah-ah)

Our troubles are all the same (ah-ah)

You wanna be where everybody knows your name

Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead

The morning's looking bright (the morning's looking bright)

And your shrink ran off to Europe

And didn't even write

And your husband wants to be a girl

Be glad there's one place in the world

Where everybody knows your name

And they're always glad you came

You wanna go where people know

People are all the same

You wanna go where everybody knows your name

Where everybody knows your name (where everybody knows your name)

And they're always glad you came

Where everybody knows your name (where everybody knows your name)

And they're always glad you came

Where everybody knows your name (where everybody knows your name)

And they're always glad you came

Where everybody knows your name (where everybody knows your name)

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Portnoy Gary / Angelo Judy Hart

Cheers Theme (Original Demo) lyrics © Addax Music Co. Inc.

PTSD Patrol everybody needs somebody

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 2, 2020

Hopefully after being on this site for a while, you are healing and living a happier life. That feels wonderful! You can feel even more happier when you reach back to help someone else who is experiencing the same misery you left behind.

The Blues Brothers song is perfect for today because you needed someone love you enough to try to make your life easier. You're in a perfect place to be able to help someone else out of the darkness of PTSD. #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

The Blues Brothers - Everybody needs somebody

PTSD Patrol lean on me

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 1, 2020

The feature video is Lean On Me because it is about asking for help when you need it and being there when someone else needs help too. The featured video on ptsdpatrol.com is when "Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, John Legend perform "Lean On Me" at the 2015 Induction Ceremony" The lyrics explain what can happen when you #BreakTheSilence ask for help to #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, John Legend perform "Lean On Me" at the 2015 Induction Ceremony

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain

We all have sorrow

But if we are wise

We know that there's always tomorrow

Lean on me, when you're not strong

And I'll be your friend

I'll help you carry on

For it won't be long

'Til I'm gonna need

Somebody to lean on

Please swallow your pride

If I have things you need to borrow

For no one can fill those of your needs

That you won't let show

You just call on me brother, when you need a hand

We all need somebody to lean on

I just might have a problem that you'll understand

We all need somebody to lean on

Lean on me, when you're not strong

And I'll be your friend

I'll help you carry on

For it won't be long

'Til I'm gonna need

Somebody to lean on

You just call on me brother, when you need a hand

We all need somebody to lean on

I just might have a problem that you'll understand

We all need somebody to lean on

If there is a load you have to bear

That you can't carry

I'm right up the road

I'll share your load

If you just call me (call me)

If you need a friend (call me) call me uh huh (call me) if you need a friend (call me)

If you ever need a friend (call me)

Call me (call me) call me (call me) call me

(Call me) call me (call me) if you need a friend

(Call me) call me (call me) call me (call me) call me (call me) call me (call me)

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Bill Withers

Lean on Me lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group 

PTSD Patrol Touch By The Sun

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

August 31, 2020

When you start to heal it feels like when the rain stops coming down, the sun starts to shine and drizzle sparkles. You find so much to be happy about your life will sparkle too!

"If you want to be brave

And reach for the top of the sky

And the farthest point on the horizon

Do you know who you'll meet there

Great soldiers and seafarers,

Artists and dreamers

Who need to be close, close to the light"

That is the beginning of the featured video today by Carly Simon.

To be touched by the sun is to feel the warmth and power wash over you, filling your soul and lifting you up.

Touched By The Sun

If you want to be brave

And reach for the top of the sky

And the farthest point on the horizon

Do you know who you'll meet there

Great soldiers and seafarers,

Artists and dreamers

Who need to be close, close to the light

They need to be in danger of burning by fire

And I, I want to get there

 I, I want to be one

One who is touched by the sun,

One who is touched by the sun

Often I want to walk

The safe side of the street

And lull myself to sleep

And dull my pain

But deep down inside I know

I've got to learn from the greats,

Earn my right to be living,

Let my wings of desire

Soar over the night

I need to let them say

I, I want to be one

One who is touched by the sun,

One who is touched by the sun

I've got to learn from the greats,

Earn my right to be living,

With every breath that I take,

Every heartbeat

And I, I want to get there

I, I want to be one, One who is touched by the sun,

One who is touched by the sun.

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Carly Simon

Touched by the Sun lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

PTSD Patrol find a new purpose

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

August 30, 2020

There are two ways people think after surviving trauma. Either God did it to them, or God saved them.

If you believe that God did it to you, it makes it very hard to hope or even pray. It is even harder if someone says, "God only gives us what we can handle" as if telling us that God did it on purpose, would be comforting.

Yet if we believe we were saved, then we not only have hope and find it empowering to pray, we also live believing there is some purpose to our lives, not our suffering.

We just had an example of that with the passing of Chadwick Boseman. He died after a long battle with cancer, yet all the time he was suffering, he was giving hope and inspiration to others.

"Sometimes you need to get knocked down before you can really figure out what your fight is and how you need to fight it," he told the class of 2018.

"Whatever you choose for a career path, remember, the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose," he said. "When I dared to challenge the system that would relegate us to victims and stereotypes with no clear historical backgrounds, no hopes or talents, when I questioned that method of portrayal, a different path opened up for me, the path to my destiny."

Everyone of us can take our own pain that we felt, and help others carry their own, if we really understand that what caused the pain was not sent to us, but what came afterwards, we are empowered to use to help heal the world.

When you survive the event that caused PTSD, your life is not the same as before. You can find a new purpose for the future to make life better for others by thinking about what made it better for you. #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Ecclesiastes 3
English Standard Version
A Time for Everything 3

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.