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.

PTSD Patrol Now and Forever

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
September 4, 2020 

Today's featured video is Carole King Now and Forever. If you lost someone, it can feel like this for you now...

Now and forever

you are a part of me

And the memory cuts like a knife

But a day will come when you think about them with warm memories instead of grieving. 

At least 187,000 Americans have lost their lives to COVID-19 since March. That is a lot of people to lose and many more are fighting for their lives in hospitals around the country.

Losing someone is traumatic, so this is for those who have suffered losing someone they cared about...you did not lose them if you keep them with you, in your heart.

Everything changes when they are gone and you miss them. I still miss hearing my Mom say at the end of our daily phone calls, "top priority" to remind me to just pick my battles and not try to take on the world. I miss my Dad sneezing saying "whisky" usually followed by a loud burb of "yep" which made everyone laugh. I miss my brothers and teasing on another. I miss my aunts and uncles, cousins and family get togethers. I miss a lot of friends who are no longer alive....but they are all still with me.

I miss seeing people and hugging them...social distancing is a terrible thing for a hugger to go through...so I try to do it online to let them know I'm still here for them.

If you lost someone, this is for you!

Lyrics

Now and forever

you are a part of me

And the memory cuts like a knife

Didn't we find the ecstasy

Didn't we share the daylight

When you walked into my life

Now and forever

I'll remember all the promises still unbroken

And think about all the words between us

That never needed to be spoken

We had a moment

Just one moment

That will last beyond a dream,

Beyond a lifetime

We are the lucky ones

Some people never get to do

All we got to do

Now and forever

I will always think of you

Didn't we come together

Didn't we live together

Didn't we cry together

Didn't we play together

Didn't we love together

And together we lit up the world

I miss the tears

I miss the laughter

I miss the day we met

and all that followed after

Sometimes I wish I

could always be with you

The way we used to do

Now and forever

I will always think of you

Now and forever

I will always be with you

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Carole King / Carole Bayer Sager / Kenny Babyface Edmonds

Now and Forever lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group 

PTSD Patrol where everyone knows your name

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 3, 2020

The theme song from Cheers is a special one to me because it addresses how important it is to have friends and support in life.

Sometimes you wanna go

Where everybody knows your name

And they're always glad you came

You wanna be where you can see (ah-ah)

Our troubles are all the same (ah-ah)

When you are trying to heal PTSD, having a support group, especially when you are alone, is a miracle maker. 

The best support group to find is one in your area, and one that is focused on the same cause of PTSD that caused yours. While support from any group is good, when you are all survivors of the same type of event, it is better.

You can witness some who have become stronger at the same time you find hope within their stories, you can also see others who need more help than you may need and then, try to inspire them.

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Making your way in the world today

Takes everything you've got

Taking a break from all your worries

Sure would help a lot

Wouldn't you like to get away?

All those nights when you've got no lights

The check is in the mail

And your little angel

Hung the cat up by it's tail

And your third fiance didn't show

Sometimes you wanna go

Where everybody knows your name

And they're always glad you came

You wanna be where you can see (ah-ah)

Our troubles are all the same (ah-ah)

You wanna be where everybody knows your name

Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead

The morning's looking bright (the morning's looking bright)

And your shrink ran off to Europe

And didn't even write

And your husband wants to be a girl

Be glad there's one place in the world

Where everybody knows your name

And they're always glad you came

You wanna go where people know

People are all the same

You wanna go where everybody knows your name

Where everybody knows your name (where everybody knows your name)

And they're always glad you came

Where everybody knows your name (where everybody knows your name)

And they're always glad you came

Where everybody knows your name (where everybody knows your name)

And they're always glad you came

Where everybody knows your name (where everybody knows your name)

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Portnoy Gary / Angelo Judy Hart

Cheers Theme (Original Demo) lyrics © Addax Music Co. Inc.