PTSD Patrol Get Together

In 1967 a song came out by the Youngbloods "Get Together" and it filled people with hope. The song was so powerful it never stopped being played. 

It was a time to chaos and war, protests and peace marches. Families were being torn apart by everything, but the song offered another message of love.

When something happens to us, something so terrible that PTSD begins to take hold, the worst memory of it can become the most predominate one. Yet within that horrible memory, there also other memories of the people who came to help you. We live in very chaotic times now. We are surrounded by hateful, hurtful people who want to make us feel miserable so they feel better about themselves. We have natural disasters all over the country. We have protests and families being torn apart. We also have men and women doing whatever they can to make the road to recovery easier for you. If have said it often that we see what we choose to see. Now I am saying that what we you see is what you seek. Seek what is still good and you'll find it. Seek what is hopeful and you will be filled with it. Seek what is based on love and you will be empowered by it!

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD.

Love is but a song to sing

Fear's the way we die

You can make the mountains ring

Or make the angels cry

Though the bird is on the wing

And you may not know why

Come on people now

Smile on your brother

Everybody get together

Try to love one another

Right now

Some may come and some may

go

We shall surely pass

When the one that left us here

Returns for us at last

We are but a moment's sunlight

Fading in the grass

Come on people now

Smile on your brother

Everybody get together

Try to love one another

Right now

Come on people now

Smile on your brother

Everybody get together

Try to love one another

Right now

Come on people now

Smile on your brother

Everybody get together

Try to love one another

Right now

If you hear the song I sing

You will understand (listen!)

You hold the key to love and fear

All in your trembling hand

Just one key unlocks them both

It's there at your command

Come on people now

Smile on your brother

Everybody get together

Try to love one another

Right now

Come on people now

Smile on your brother

Everybody get together

Try to love one another

Right now

I said, come on people now

Smile on your brother

Everybody get together

Try to love one another

Right now

Right now

Right now

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Chester Powers / Chester William Jr. Powers

Get Together lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC 

Jesse Colin Young and Steve Miller re-recorded “Get Together” when the world was hit with COVID-19 as a way to help fight hunger and to celebrate the song’s 50th anniversary. With Jesse and Steve on vocals, the lyrics resonate with our current need to help each other through troubling times.

You can help fight world hunger just by listening to this song and other SongAid music on your favorite music platform. Every time the track is played it generates money for Why Hunger's Rapid Response Fund.

PTSD Patrol Mental Healing Awareness Day

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

October 1, 2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) made World Mental Health Awareness Day....because mental health is a problem across the entire world.

The problem with awareness days is, it is like seeing a house on fire, gathering together and watching it, instead picking up a hose or calling 911 so the fire department can come and put it out.

No one is really doing much to take the problem and fix it! Saying something is happening, is not the same as doing anything about it. 

World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilizing efforts in support of mental health. The Day provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work, and what more needs to be done to make mental health care a reality for people worldwide.

That is why today the feature video is The Doors People Are Strange.

When people know how much power they do have over mental illness, things change for the better. When people know they can heal, they have hope that their lives can get better, and they seek it.

Want to change the outcome? Then change the conversation!

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

People are strange when you're a stranger

Faces look ugly when you're alone

Women seem wicked when you're unwanted

Streets are uneven when you're down

When you're strange

Faces come out of the rain

When you're strange

No one remembers your name

When you're strange

When you're strange

When you're strange 

People are strange when you're a stranger

Faces look ugly when you're alone

Women seem wicked when you're unwanted

Streets are uneven when you're down

When you're strange

Faces come out of the rain

When you're strange

No one remembers your name

When you're strange

When you're strange

When you're strange 

When you're strange

Faces come out of the rain

When you're strange

No one remembers your name

When you're strange

When you're strange

When you're strange 

PTSD Patrol he ain't heavy

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
October 9, 2020

Today the feature video is the Hollies, He Ain't Heavy...He's my brother. The song is about taking care of someone who matters to you. That is what friends are supposed to do for one another. Sharing burdens, as much as they are share joys. When you have PTSD, it can be hard at times to open up and ask for help, even when you are with someone you trusted to a point. Just remember that if they really are your friend, they will listen, support you, and do whatever they can to help you on your road to recovery. It doesn't have to be such a lonely road for you. By now you should know enough about PTSD to be able to explain it to someone who does not know what it is.Trust they enough to ask for help and ask them to just listen. Real friends always will. #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

The road is long

With many a winding turn

That leads us to who knows where

Who knows where

But I'm strong

Strong enough to carry him

He ain't heavy, he's my brother

So on we go

His welfare is of my concern

No burden is he to bear

We'll get there

For I know

He would not encumber me

He ain't heavy, he's my brother

If I'm laden at all

I'm laden with sadness

That everyone's heart

Isn't filled with the gladness

Of love for one another

It's a long, long road

From which there is no return

While we're on the way to there

Why not share

And the load

Doesn't weigh me down at all

He ain't heavy he's my brother

He's my brother

He ain't heavy, he's my brother, he ain't heavy

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Bob Russell / Bobby Scott 

PTSD Patrol Train of Hope

PTSD Partol
Kathie Costos
October 8, 2020

Today the featured video is Bruce Springsteen, Hope and Dreams, This Train. It got me thinking of how people can get a narrow line of vision where all they see is what is negative. If that is all you look for, then you do not see what is good, what is possible and discover something to hope for. With PTSD, you tend to cling to misery because it is what you know is there, but when you open your eyes to the hope of healing, that is what you begin to search for. It is a lot better to look at your life with hope than it is to settle for what you have. #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Oh oh this train, I'm riding this train

Don't you wanna ride 

(This train)

Oh get on, get on (this train)

Grab your ticket and your suitcase

Thunder's rolling down the tracks

You don't know where you're goin' now

But you know you won't be back

Darlin' if you're weary

Lay your head upon my chest

We'll take what we can carry

And we'll leave the rest

Big wheels rolling through fields

Where sunlight streams

Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

I will provide for you

And I'll stand by your side

You'll need a good companion

For this part of the ride

Leave behind your sorrows

Let this day be the last

Tomorrow there'll be sunshine

And all this darkness past

Big wheels roll through fields

Where sunlight streams

Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

This train carries saints and sinners

This train carries losers and winners

This train carries whores and gamblers

This train carries lost souls

I said, this train dreams will not be thwarted

This train faith will be rewarded

This train hear the steel wheels singin'

This train bells of freedom ringin'

This train carries saints and sinners

This train carries losers and winners

This train carries whores and gamblers

This train carries lost souls

I said, this train carries broken-hearted

This train thieves and sweet souls departed

This train carries fools and kings

This train, all aboard

I said, this train dreams will not be thwarted

This train faith will be rewarded

This train hear the steel wheels singin'

This train bells of freedom ringin'

Come on this train

People get ready

You don't need no ticket

All you got do is just get on board 

On board this train

This train, people get ready

You don't need no ticket (oh I know you don't)

You don't need no ticket you just get on board (people get ready) 

You just thank the Lord (people get ready)

Come on this train (people get ready)

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Bruce Springsteen / Curtis Mayfield

Land of Hope and Dreams lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc 

Bruce Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams This Train (Superstorm: Hurricane Sandy Benefit Concert)

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