PTSD Patrol getting past "Thunderdome"

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
October 14, 2020

"Out of the ruins...Out from the wreckage...All we want is life beyond the Thunderdome...Looking for something...We can rely on...There's got to be something better out there...Love and compassion" words from the movie Thunderdome. 

There are so many different parts of We Don't Need Another Hero that apply to recovering from PTSD. 

After surviving over 10 times, the worst for me was after my ex-husband tried to kill me, then stalked me for a long time. The sound of the muscle cars he always drove caused flashbacks and all that came with it. For me, that was the thunder in my dome...my head.

I never knew what kind of car he would be driving because he was an auto body mechanic. He would use customer's cars so that I wouldn't be able to call the police with the plate number of his car. I had a restraining order but it didn't do any good.

Many years after I move from Massachusetts to Florida, it still happened, even though it was "irrational" that was my reality. That didn't end until I got a copy of his obituary in the mail. That ended my dread of muscle cars because I knew he would never be able to hurt me again.

Your flashbacks may be irrational too but there are understandable irrationalities.

What I would like you to understand is that even within all those years of that terror, I was relatively happy. I worked to help other people understand what PTSD was and what it did, as well as try to help them know that they could overcome it, even if they could not cure it.

PTSD doesn't have to consume you or rob you of living a happier life. If I could do it, you can get out from under your "Thunderdome" too!

#BreakTheSilence and #TackBackYourLife from #PTSD

We Don’t Need Another Hero

Tina Turner

Out of the ruins 

Out from the wreckage

Can't make the same mistake this time

We are the children 

The last generation (the last generation)

We are the ones they left behind

And I wonder when we are ever gonna change it

Living under the fear 'til nothing else remains

We don't need another hero 

We don't need to know the way home 

All we want is life beyond the Thunderdome

Looking for something 

We can rely on 

There's got to be something better out there

Love and compassion 

Their day is coming (coming)

All else are castles built in the air

And I wonder when we are ever gonna change it 

Living under the fear 'til nothing else remains

All the children say

We don't need another hero 

We don't need to know the way home 

All we want is life beyond the Thunderdome

So what do we do with our lives?

We leave only a mark 

Will our story shine like a light

Or end in the dark?

Is it all or nothing?

We don't need another hero 

We don't need to know the way home 

All we want is life beyond the Thunderdome

All the children say

We don't need another hero (we don't need another hero)

We don't need to know the way home 

All we want is life beyond the Thunderdome

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Graham Hamilton Lyle / Terry Britten

We Don’t Need Another Hero lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., BMG Rights Management 

PTSD Patrol feeling stronger everyday

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
October 13, 2020

"Feeling stronger everyday" by Chicago is one of my favorite songs. What can be better for someone healing than to feel stronger everyday?

That is the goal of healing from anything. When you are healing as a survivor, little by little you are able to understand what that means by trying it, doing it, failing and trying again until you achieve it! When you get there, then it becomes your mission to help others get to that point in their lives too!

It doesn't mean that you are going to be happy everyday. Yesterday was an example of that from me. Doing these videos everyday, there are times when I won't be as happy as I usually am. Some days I may be angry, or depressed or have a meltdown, but I am human and those emotions are all part of life. So are the good ones and I hope that you are at a point when you are feeling those good ones more than the bad days.

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

I do believe in you

And I know you believe in me

Oh yeah, oh yeah

But now we realize

Love's not all that it's supposed to be

Oh yeah, oh yeah

And knowing that you would have wanted it this way

I do believe I'm feelin' stronger every day

I know we really tried

Together we had love inside

Oh yeah, oh yeah

So now the time has come

For both of us to live on the run

Oh yeah, oh yeah

And knowing that you would have wanted it this way

I do believe I'm feelin' stronger every day

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

After what you've meant to me

Ooh, baby now

I can make it easily

Yeah, yeah, yeah

I know that we both agree

Best thing to happen to you

The best thing that happened to me

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Feelin' stronger every day 

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Peter Cetera / James Pankow

Feelin' Stronger Everyday lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Spirit Music Group, BMG Rights Management 

PTSD Patrol We Need Highway to Healing

PTSD Pzartol
Kathie Costos
October 12, 2020

Today the feature video is Twisted Sister We're Not Gonna Take It because anyone dealing with PTSD has had enough of the talk from our elected officials. We're tired of them telling us we have a problem when WE LIVE WITH IT and are tied of them telling us what they did hasn't worked but their are going to do more of the same. This is all BS!

The Senate proved they can do what they want as fast as they want with the hearing on the Supreme Court nominee, but they didn't see the need to hold hearings on the pandemic that is killing all of us and making PTSD worse! ENOUGH! These yahoos want our votes and it is about time we make them earn them!

I hope I am in a better mood tomorrow.... #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife FROM OUR CONGRESS!

Oh, we're not gonna take it

No, we ain't gonna take it

Oh, we're not gonna take it anymore

We've got the right to choose it

There ain't no way we'll lose it

This is our life, this is our song

We'll fight the powers that be, just

Don't pick our destiny 'cause

You don't know us, you don't belong

Oh, we're not gonna take it

No, we ain't gonna take it

Oh, we're not gonna take it anymore

Oh, you're so condescending

Your gall is never ending

We don't want nothin', not a thing from you

Your life is trite and jaded

Boring and confiscated

If that's your best, your best won't do

Whoa, oh oh

Whoa, oh oh

We're right (yeah)

We're free (yeah)

We'll fight (yeah)

You'll see (yeah)

Whoa, whoa, we're not gonna take it

No, we ain't gonna take it

Oh, we're not gonna take it anymore

We're not gonna take it

No, we ain't gonna take it

Oh, we're not gonna take it anymore

No way

Whoa, oh oh

Whoa, oh oh

We're right (yeah)

We're free (yeah)

We'll fight (yeah)

You'll see (yeah)

We're not gonna take it

No, we ain't gonna take it

We're not gonna take it anymore

We're not gonna take it (no)

No, we ain't gonna take it

we're not gonna take it anymore

Just you try and make us

We're not gonna take it

(Come on!)

No, we ain't gonna take it

(You're all worthless and weak)

We're not gonna take it anymore

(Now drop and give me twenty)

We're not gonna take it

(A pledge pin)

No, we ain't gonna take it

(On your uniform)

We're not gonna take it anymore

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Daniel Dee Snider

We're Not Gonna Take It lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group 

You're watching the official music video for Twisted Sister - "We're Not Gonna Take it" from the album 'Stay Hungry' (1984). "We're Not Gonna Take it" has been covered by Donots, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Lit among others, and has been featured in a number of television commercials and shows.

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