PTSD Patrol Ventura Highway

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

October 2, 2020

Today the feature video is a America's Ventura Highway."You're gonna go I know 'Cause the free wind is blowin' through Your hair And the days surround your daylight There Seasons crying no despair." to remind you that things can get a lot better than they are right now! #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Chewing on a piece of grass

Walking down the road

Tell me, how long you gonna stay here Joe?

Some people say this town don't look

Good in snow

You don't care, I know

Ventura Highway in the sunshine

Where the days are longer

The nights are stronger

Than moonshine

You're gonna go I know

'Cause the free wind is blowin' through

Your hair

And the days surround your daylight

There

Seasons crying no despair

Alligator lizards in the air

Wishin' on a falling star

Watchin' for the early train

Sorry boy, but I've been hit by

Purple rain

Aw, come on Joe, you can always

Change your name

Thanks a lot son, just the same

Ventura Highway

In the sunshine

Where the days are longer

The nights are stronger

Than moonshine

You're gonna go I know

'Cause the free wind is blowin' through

Your hair

And the days surround you daylight

There

Seasons crying no despair

Alligator lizards in the air

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Dewey Bunnell

Ventura Highway lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc 

PTSD Patrol "everyday it seems a little stronger"

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

October 1, 2020

Yesterday was my 36th wedding anniversary! Today's feature video is James Taylor's "Everyday" because it reflects all the changes we have gone through over all these years. 

Some thought it wouldn't last, including a lot of years when we also thought it was impossible. Any marriage is hard but when you add in PTSD, along with everything else that comes with it, too many marriages fall apart. It is like living on a rollercoaster!

You can read about most of it in the book I wrote a long time ago, FOR THE LOVE OF JACK, HIS WAR/MY BATTLE but for now, know that nothing is impossible when you know and love one another.

Everyday, it's getting closer,

Going faster than a roller coaster.

A love like yours would surely come my way.

Everyday, seems a little faster,

All my friends, they say go on up and ask her.

A love like yours would surely come my way.

Everyday it seems a little stronger,

Everyday it lasts a little longer.

Come what may, do you ever long for

True love from me?

Everyday seems a little closer,

Going faster than a roller coaster.

A love like yours would surely come my way.

A love like yours would surely come my way, Everyday.

Everyday it seems a little stronger,

Everyday it lasts a little longer.

Come what may, do you ever long for

True love from me?

Like I long from you baby.

Everyday seems a little closer,

Going faster than a roller coaster.

A love like yours would surely come my way.

Written by: Buddy Holly, Norman Petty

Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Peermusic Publishing 

PTSD Patrol walk in rays of beautiful sun

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 30, 2020

After last night, if you watched the horrible debate, it is a good time to be reminded of the fact that things are not as horrible as was on display. We do have a lot to be thankful for and a lot to look forward to. We've been through hard times in our lives. The thing that started PTSD was hard, but as you have seen, things to get a little easier and get a lot brighter.

That is why I picked "Ooo Child" for the feature video today. We can "walk in the rays of a beautiful sun again" and our "heads can be a lot lighter." #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Ooh child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh child
Things'll get brighter
Ooh child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh child
Things'll get brighter
Some day, yeah
We'll put it together and we'll get it undone
Some day
When your head is much lighter
Some day, yeah
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter........

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Stan Vincent
O-o-h Child lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

PTSD Patrol no time for pain

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 29, 2020

There was a time when all I had time for was praying to God that my pain would end. It is one thing to have physical pain, but when you have spiritual pain, that wrecks everything!

It may sound strange to you, but there are a lot of "love" songs that I find spiritually healing. 

There are a lot of love songs that mean something deeper to me. There is a spiritual connection made with many of them. The feature video today is Carlie Simon "I Haven't Got Time For The Pain."

When I was having a really hard time spiritually, this song made me feel more hopeful about the next minutes in time. If you thing about some songs that mean more to you than others, you'll know exactly what I mean. So when you are in spiritual pain, find a song that makes you feel relief and you won't have time for the pain because you are filling yourself up with hope! #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

All those crazy nights when I cried myself to sleep

Now melodrama never makes me weep anymore

'cause I haven't got time for the pain

I haven't got room for the pain

I haven't the need for the pain

Not since I've known you

You showed me how, how to leave myself behind

How to turn down the noise in my mind

Now I haven't got time for the pain

I haven't got room for the pain

I haven't the need for the pain

Not since I've known you

Suffering was the only thing that made me feel I was alive

Though that's just how much it cost to survive in this world

'til you showed me how, how to fill my heart with love

How to open up and drink in all that white light

Pouring down from the heaven

I haven't got time for the pain

I haven't got room for the pain

I haven't the need for the pain

Not since I've known you

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Jacob Brackman / Carly Simon

Haven't Got Time for the Pain lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group 

PTSD Patrol honoring your feelings

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 28, 2020

Sometimes we have to honor our pain and loneliness. That is why I picked Neil Diamond I AM I SAID for the feature video today.

There was a report on military suicides being 20% higher than last year. That was like a dagger to my heart because I dedicated 38 years of my life to that cause. With all the nonsense getting the attention online, they couldn't find me anymore, so I thought as a 10 time civilian survivor, I may be of more use to regular people like me. With over 8 million Americans diagnosed with PTSD, they are getting less attention than the veterans. Right now, I am taking my own advise and honoring my feelings to go toward healing afterwards. #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

But I got an emptiness deep inside

And I've tried

But it won't let me go

And I'm not a man who likes to swear

But I never cared

For the sound of being alone

I AM I SAID

L.A.'s fine, the sun shines most the time

And the feeling is "lay back"

Palm trees grow and rents are low

But you know I keep thinkin' about

Making my way back

Well I'm New York City born and raised

But nowadays

I'm lost between two shores

L.A.'s fine, but it ain't home

New York's home

But it ain't mine no more

"I am"... I said

To no one there

And no one heard at all

Not even the chair

"I am"... I cried

"I am"... said I

And I am lost and I can't

Even say why

Leavin' me lonely still

Did you ever read about a frog

Who dreamed of bein' a king

And then became one

Well except for the names

And a few other changes

If you talk about me

The story is the same one

But I got an emptiness deep inside

And I've tried

But it won't let me go

And I'm not a man who likes to swear

But I never cared

For the sound of being alone

"I am"... I said

To no one there

And no one heard at all

Not even the chair

"I am"... I cried

"I am"... said I

And I am lost and I can't

Even say why

"I am"... I said

"I am"... I cried

"I am"

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Neil Diamond

I Am...I Said lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group