PTSD Patrol go your own way

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 9, 2020

GO YOUR OWN WAY

When someone you love has PTSD it is lonely and scary for them. You are the only one who knows what they are like and if you love them enough to fight for them. 

Go your own way and stop listening to your friends, learn how to help them heal and get some power tools to help you do it. #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Fleetwood Mac

Loving you

Isn't the right thing to do

How can I ever change things

That I feel

If I could

Maybe I'd give you my world

How can I

When you won't take it from me

You can go your own way

Go your own way

You can call it

Another lonely day

You can go your own way

Go your own way

Tell me why

Everything turned around

Packing up

Shacking up is all you want to do

If I could

Baby, I'd give you my world

Open up

Everything's waiting for you

You can go your own way

Go your own way

You can call it

Another lonely day

You can go your own way

Go your own way

You can go your own way

Go your own way

You can call it

Another lonely day

Another lonely day

You can go your own way

Go your own way

You can call it

Another lonely day

You can go your own way

You can call it

Another lonely day

You can go your own way

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Lindsey Buckingham

Go Your Own Way lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

PTSD Patrol songs of our times

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 8, 2020

Today there are two feature videos on how life can change for the better. My life changed many times over the years but some songs still touched me. Melissa Manchester Come In From The Rain held different meaning as my life changed. I bet there are songs that did the same for you. 

#PTSD only has the power you let it have....#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife

Come In From The Rain 

Lyrics 

Well, hello there

Good old friend of mine

You've been reaching for yourself

For such a long time

There's so much to say

No need to explain

Just an open door for you

To come in from the rain

It's a long road

When you're all alone

And someone like you

Will always take the long way home

There's no right or wrong

I'm not here to blame

I just want to be the one

Who keep you from the rain

From the rain

And it looks like sunny skies

Now that I know you're alright

Time has left us

Older

And wiser

I know I am

'Cause I think of us

Like an old cliche

But it doesn't matter

'Cause I love you anyway

Come in from the rain

And it looks like sunny skies

Now that I know you're alright

Time has left us

Older

But Wiser

I know I am

And it's good to know

My best friend has come home again

And I think of us

Like an old cliche

But it doesn't matter

'Cause I love you anyway

Come in from the rain

Come in from the rain

Come in from the rain

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Carole Bayer Sager / Melissa Manchester / Melissa Toni Manchester

Come In From The Rain lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, BMG Rights Management, Carlin America Inc 

Ordinary World

Lyrics

Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue

Thought I heard you talking softly

I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio

Still I can't escape the ghost of you

What has happened to it all?

Crazy, some'd say

Where is the life that I recognize?

Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday

There's an ordinary world

Somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way

To the ordinary world

I will learn to survive

Passion or coincidence

Once prompted you to say

"Pride will tear us both apart"

Well, now pride's gone out the window

Cross the rooftops

Run away

Left me in the vacuum of my heart

What is happening to me?

Crazy, some'd say

Where is my friend when I need you most?

Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday

There's an ordinary world

Somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way

To the ordinary world

I will learn to survive

Papers in the roadside

Tell of suffering and greed

Fear today, forgot tomorrow

Ooh, here besides the news

Of holy war and holy need

Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

And I don't cry for yesterday

There's an ordinary world

Somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way

To the ordinary world

I will learn to survive

Every world

Is my world

(I will learn to survive)

Any world

Is my world

(I will learn to survive)

Any world

Is my world

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Warren Cuccurullo / Nigel John Taylor / Nick Rhodes / Simon John Charles Le-Bon

Ordinary World lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

PTSD Patrol The Journey Home

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 7, 2020

When you hear the expression, "You can't go home again," what does that mean to you? To me, it means that you cannot go back to what you knew before, because nothing stays the same.

There are times I wish I could go back and talk to a younger me to give me comfort and assurance that everything was going to be OK, but I took "her" with me instead.

How comforting would that be if you could go back to let yourself know that whenever you were hurt or afraid, that by some miracle, a future you could show up and explain that?

Well, you are able to do that right now. Not for yourself, but for others on their own journey toward a happier life. You are the "older" them because you were where they are and can give them comfort that the "wheel in the sky keeps turning" and the unknown doesn't have to be as scary as they think it is.

You remember what that was like but now you know what it is like to #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Wheel In The Sky

Journey 

Winter is here again, oh lord

Haven't been home in a year or more

I hope she holds on a little longer

Sent a letter on a long summer day

Made of silver, not of clay

Ooh, I've been running down this dusty road 

Ooh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turning

I don't know where I'll be tomorrow

Wheel in the sky keeps on turning 

I've been trying to make it home

Got to make it before too long

Ooh, I can't take this very much longer, no

I'm standing in the sleet and rain

Don't think I'm ever gonna make it home again

The morning sun is rising

It's kissing the day 

Ooh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turning

I don't know where I'll be tomorrow

Wheel in the sky keeps on turning

Whoa, whoa, whoa

My, my, my, my, my

For Tomorrow 

Genius Lyrics 

PTSD Patrol Sing Your Victory Song!

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 6, 2020

Yesterday I had a mental health day and we went to a lake in Maine to spend some time with friends. I needed it! It will happen from time to time. 

This morning my buddy Gunny sent me a text with a couple  of song suggestions and when I saw this one, it fit perfectly for the way I was feeling.

That is why today's featured video is the Eagles I'm Already Gone, because I said that to depression yesterday and it is fitting when you are healing PTSD....now you can say that too with "I'm feeling strong and I will sing this victory song!" #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Now, you can think of this as a goodbye song to a person or take a lot of parts of it and substitute it with PTSD!

"I'm already gone....feeling strong!"

Lyrics

Well, I heard some people talkin' just the other day

And they said you were gonna put me on a shelf

But let me tell you I got some news for you

And you'll soon find out it's true

And then you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself

'Cause I'm already gone

And I'm feelin' strong

I will sing this vict'ry song

Woo hoo hoo, my my, woo hoo hoo

The letter that you wrote me made me stop and wonder why

But I guess you felt like you had to set things right

Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky

You can see the stars and still not see the light (that's right)

And I'm already gone

And I'm feelin' strong

I will sing this vict'ry song

Woo hoo hoo, my my, woo hoo hoo

Well, I know it wasn't you who held me down

Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains

And we never even know we have the key

But me, I'm already gone

And I'm feelin' strong

I will sing this vict'ry song

'Cause I'm already gone

Yes, I'm already gone

And I'm feelin' strong

I will sing this vict'ry song

'Cause I'm already gone

Yes, I'm already gone

Already gone

All right, nighty-night

Already gone

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Jack Tempchin / Robert Arnold Strandlund

Already Gone lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc 

PTSD Patrol Maine mental health day

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 5, 2020

I played hooky today in Maine....I needed a mental health day for myself and will post again tomorrow.