PTSD Patrol Rescue Me

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
October 7, 2020

Today the feature video is Rescue Me by Fontella Bass (1965) because after getting up in a very bad mood, this song had me chair dancing right after it started playing on the radio. It made me remember how my husband and I rescued each other. Our lives were not that great before we met but looking back on all of it now, we met for a reason. If you have someone in your life who rescued you, it is a wonderful feeling but if you need someone to do it, remember that there was a long time I didn't think I would ever find someone to heal my broken heart....until I did. #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD.

Rescue me

Take me in your arms

Rescue me

I want your tender charm

'Cause I'm lonely

And I'm blue

I need you

And your love too

Come on and rescue me

Come on, baby, and rescue me

Come on, baby, and rescue me

'Cause I need you by my side

Can't you see that I'm lonely

Rescue me

Come on and take my heart

Take your love and conquer every part

'Cause I'm lonely

And I'm blue

I need you

And your love too

Come on and rescue me

Come on, baby, and rescue me

Come on, baby, and rescue me

'Cause I need you by my side

Can't you see that I'm lonely

Rescue me

Take me in your arms

Rescue me

I want your tender charm

'Cause I'm lonely

And I'm blue

I need you

And your love too

Come on and rescue me (come on baby)

Take me baby (take me baby)

Hold me baby (hold me baby)

Love me baby (love me baby)

Can't you see that I need you baby

Can't you see that I'm lonely

Rescue me

Come on and take my hand

C'mon, baby and be my man

'Cause I love you

'Cause I want you

Can't you see that I'm lonely

Mmm-hmm (mmm-hmm)

Mmm-hmm (mmm-hmm)

Take me baby (take me baby)

Love me baby (love me baby)

Need me baby (need me baby)

Mmm-hmm (mmm-hmm)

Can't you see that I'm lonely

Rescue me

Rescue me

Mmm-hmm, mmm-hmm

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Carl Smith / Raynard Miner

Rescue Me lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave, BMG Rights Management 

PTSD Patrol I'll Stand By You

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
October 6, 2020



Today the feature video is the Pretenders I'll Stand By You. That is something a lot of people are looking for, especially when politics have turned people you thought were your friends into enemies. I have never been attacked so much in my life, than the last few months and by people I did a lot for. 

When you have PTSD, it could be people you know turning their back on you, and you think you do not matter. The thing is, you do matter and there are a lot of people who will stand by you.

Find people in the same situation, people who will listen to you, help you and stand by you. They do exist.

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

I do not regret doing things for those who turned against me. If I did not help them, I would have gone against myself and all I believed was the right thing to do. What they did in return is their problem, not mine. I know as a Christian, I will have to account for my actions one day, and so will they.

If you are doing things for the right reasons, keep doing them. If you are telling the truth, keep telling the truth. If you have peace within your soul when we do something good, remember that, because they will never know what that feels like!

The Pretenders

I'll Stand By You

Oh, why you look so sad, the tears are in your eyes,

Come on and come to me now, and don't be ashamed to cry,

Let me see you through, 'cause I've seen the dark side too.

When the night falls on you, you don't know what to do,

Nothing you confess could make me love you less,

I'll stand by you,

I'll stand by you, won't let nobody hurt you,

I'll stand by you

So if you're mad, get mad, don't hold it all inside,

Come on and talk to me now.

Hey there, what you got to hide?

I get angry too, well, I'm alive like you.

When you're standing at the cross roads,

And don't know which path to choose,

Let me come along, 'cause even if you're wrong

I'll stand by you,

I'll stand by you, won't let nobody hurt you,

I'll stand by you.

Baby, even to your darkest hour, and I'll never desert you,

I'll stand by you.

And when, when the night falls on you baby,

You're feeling all a lone, you're wandering on your own,

I'll stand by you.

I'll stand by you, won't let nobody hurt you,

I'll stand by you, baby even to your darkest hour,

And I'll never desert you,

I'll stand by you,

I'll stand by you.

I'll stand by you, won't let nobody hurt you,

I'll stand by you, baby even to your darkest hour,

And I'll never desert you

I'll stand by you

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Thomas Kelly / Christine Hynde / Billy Steinberg

I'll Stand by You lyrics © BMG Rights Management 

PTSD Patrol The Healing Letter

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

October 5, 2020

The feature video today is Bruce Springsteen Letter To You. There are many times we have a lot to say to people who are not in our lives anymore. For me, I wrote a letter to myself when I was a lot younger and things were really hard. I let "me" know all the things I needed to hear back then and offer hope of how our life would turn out. It was healing even though I had to burn it instead of send it. There are a lot of times when we need to do that for ourselves, not for the person we want to say it to. If you have PTSD, then there may be a lot of things you need to say, and this really helps!

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Letter to You

Bruce Springsteen

'Neath a crown of mongrel trees

I pulled that bothersome thread

Got down on my knees

Grabbed my pen and bowed my head

Tried to summon all that my heart finds true

And send it in my letter to you

Things I found out through hard times and good

I wrote 'em all out in ink and blood

Dug deep in my soul and signed my name true

And sent it in my letter to you

In my letter to you

I took all my fears and doubts

In my letter to you

All the hard things I found out

In my letter to you

All that I've found true

And I sent it in my letter to you

I took all the sunshine and rain

All my happiness and all my pain

The dark evening stars

And the morning sky of blue

And I sent it in my letter to you

And I sent it in my letter to you

In my letter to you

I took all my fears and doubts

In my letter to you

All the hard things that I found out

In my letter to you

All that I found true

And I sent it in my letter to you

I sent it in my letter to you

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Bruce Springsteen

Letter to You lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group 

PTSD Patrol Homeward Bound

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

October 4, 2020

Today my husband and I took a drive to Old Orchard Beach in Maine. We haven't been there since we were kids and it felt strangely wonderful to have so many memories come flooding back. We're different now. We didn't even know each other growing up in our city but we shared some of the same experiences. It was great to see how little it had changed after all these years, but after 15 years in Florida, both of us had the same reaction sitting on the bench...while we left New England for a time...it never left us. Feature video is Homeward Bound by Simon and Garfunkel.

If you have PTSD, you may think that you cannot be homeward bound, but what you need to remember is, the person you were, was with you the whole time and pieces of that life are with you always. 

If you had bad times, try to let them go and hang onto the good memories. I had some miserable times in my life but there were some that were really wonderful. Simple things like the smell in my house when my Mom made Chocolate Chip cookies from scratch. Or when she cooked Sunday dinner for our huge extended family. The sound of laughter when her and her sisters and their families came over. All the trips we took to different places in New England, like Old Orchard Beach.

Those are the type of memories that you should hang onto for when the bad memories come back.

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

I'm sittin' in the railway station

Got a ticket to my destination

On a tour of one-night stands

My suitcase and guitar in hand

And every stop is neatly planned

For a poet and a one-man band

Homeward bound

I wish I was

Homeward bound

Home where my thought's escapin'

Home where my music's playin'

Home where my love lies waitin'

Silently for me

Every day's an endless stream

Of cigarettes and magazines

And each town looks the same to me

The movies and the factories

And every stranger's face I see

Reminds me that I long to be

Homeward bound

I wish I was

Homeward bound

Home where my thought's escapin'

Home where my music's playin'

Home where my love lies waitin'

Silently for me

Tonight I'll sing my songs again

I'll play the game and pretend

But all my words come back to me

In shades of mediocrity

Like emptiness in harmony

I need someone to comfort me

Homeward bound

I wish I was

Homeward bound

Home where my thought's escapin'

Home where my music's playin'

Home where my love lies waitin'

Silently for me

Silently for me

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Paul Simon

Homeward Bound lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group 

PTSD Patrol Tucson Train

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
October 3, 2020

Today the feature video is Bruce Springsteen Tucson Train. It is about a relationship that fell apart but they were getting back together again. Believe it or not, but a lot of relationships that were destroyed by PTSD, were put back together again! Once the survivor got help to heal, and the people that mattered to them understood what went wrong, they stopped trying to blame one another and started to support each other! Fabulous results happen all the time.

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Tucson Train

I got so down and out in 'Frisco

Tired of the pills and the rain

I picked up, headed for the sunshine

I left a good thing behind

Seemed all of our love was in vain

My baby's coming in on the Tucson train

I come here looking for a new life

One I wouldn't have to explain

To that voice that keeps me awake at night

When a little peace would make everything right

If I could just turn off my brain

Now my baby's coming in on the Tucson train

We fought hard over nothing

We fought 'til nothing remained

I've carried that nothing for a long time

Now I carry my operator's license

And spend my days just running this crane

My baby's coming in on the Tucson train

Hard work'll clear your mind and body

The hard sun will burn out the pain

If they're looking for me, tell 'em buddy

I'm waiting down at the station

Just praying to the five-fifteen

I'll wait all God's creation

Just to show her a man can change

Now my baby's coming in on the Tucson train

On the Tucson train

On the Tucson train

Waiting on the five-fifteen

Here she comes

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Bruce Springsteen

Tucson Train lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group