November 11, 2020 Veterans Day

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
November 11, 2020

Today is Veterans Day and that is why the feature video is Elton John Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me because that is exactly what we have done to veterans.

  

But these cuts I have 

They need love (they need love, they need love)

To help them heal

Oh, don't let the sun go down on me

Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see

I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free, oh

'Cause losing everything is like the sun going down on me

Don't let the sun go down on me

When we survive the traumatic events that cause PTSD, we do not think about our veterans. Had it not been for Vietnam veterans returning from combat, no one would be doing much about what trauma does to the survivors. They came home and fought for the research and funding...that created all the responses we receive. From trauma units and crisis intervention teams, to mental health professionals and peer support, none of that would have happened, but we do not think about any of that.

Vietnam veterans fought for their generation, and all those who came before them as well as those they knew would come after them. The rest of Americans benefitted from their battles, and so did the rest of the world.

So from PTSD Patrol and all the veterans in our families, thank you! Thank you for all you were willing to do for all of us!

I can't light no more of your darkness

All my pictures seem to fade to black and white

I'm growing tired and time stands still before me

Frozen here on the ladder of my life

It's much too late to save myself from falling

I took a chance and changed your way of life

But you misread my meaning when I met you

Closed the door and left me blinded by the light

Don't let the sun go down on me

Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see

I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free, oh

But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

I can't find

Oh, the right romantic line

But see me once and see the way I feel

Don't discard me, baby don't

Just because you think I mean, you harm

(Just because you think I mean you harm, oh)

But these cuts I have (cuts I have)

They need love (they need love, they need love) 

To help them heal

Oh, don't let the sun go down on me

Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see

I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free, oh

'Cause losing everything is like the sun going down on me

Don't let the sun go down on me

Although I search myself, it's always someone else that I see, yeah

I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free baby, oh

'Cause losing everything is like the sun going down on me

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Bernie Taupin / Elton John

Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group 

For our veterans and all those who risked their lives for the rest of us....

PTSD Parol Carry On healing

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
November 10, 2020

Carry on, my wayward son

There'll be peace when you are done

Lay your weary head to rest

Don't you cry no more

Today the feature video is Kansas Carry On My Wayward Son! There is a pain that is deeper than crying. That is when PTSD caused a wall to built around your heart and traps the pain behind it. It also prevents good feeling from getting in. They cannot break through the wall and there is no room for it to get in, even if it could.

When you are healing, that wall begins to crack. Then it starts to fall apart rushing all those bad feelings out of you, until there is only room for good ones to take their proper place in your life.

Then there comes a day when you don't need to cry anymore. That is a wonderful feeling and so much better than just feeling misery.

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

REMEMBER IT IS YOUR LIFE....GET IN AN DRIVE!

Carry on, my wayward son

There'll be peace when you are done

Lay your weary head to rest

Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion

Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion

I was soaring ever higher

But I flew too high

Though my eyes could see, I still was a blind man

Though my mind could think, I still was a mad man

I hear the voices when I'm dreaming

I can hear them say

Carry on, my wayward son

There'll be peace when you are done

Lay your weary head to rest

Don't you cry no more

Masquerading as a man with a reason

My charade is the event of the season

And if I claim to be a wise man, well

It surely means that I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion

Tossed about, I'm like a ship on the ocean

I set a course for winds of fortune

But I hear the voices say

Carry on my wayward son

There'll be peace when you are done

Lay your weary head to rest

Don't you cry no more, no

Carry on, you will always remember

Carry on, nothing equals the splendor

Now your life's no longer empty

Surely heaven waits for you

Carry on, my wayward son

There'll be peace when you are done

Lay your weary head to rest

Don't you cry, don't you cry no more

No more

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Kerry Livgren

Carry on Wayward Son lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC 

PTSD Patrol healing on a lonely road

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
November 9, 2020

Being alone can be very depressing. It can be even more so when your job has you away from family and friends. Sometimes you can be lonely even with you are with other people. A police officer can be lonely even sitting next to their partner. Firefighters can be lonely when they are at the station sitting at a table with the others. Truckers are lonely, military members can be lonely and the list goes on.

Right now there are a lot of people who are lonely but when they see people still going out and getting together in groups, it can be even worse. The thing is, you need to remember that even when they are with a lot of other people, some are still lonely.

I have talked to a lot of people over the years, who still lived with family and had friends, but felt all alone. If you have PTSD, you could also feel alone even with others around you. That is why today there are two feature videos. The first is Journey Faithfully and Glen Campbell Wichita Lineman to give you some comfort knowing that there are others who are alone too.

I don't know how many other ways I can put this but if you know what PTSD is and understand that there is nothing to be ashamed of, especially as a survivor, you will open up to others because you know you can explain it to them. It also makes it easier to ask for help. You'll be amazed by how others will help you and stand by you. 

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from PTSD

Highway run

Into the midnight sun

Wheels go round and round

You're on my mind

Restless hearts

Sleep alone tonight

Sendin' all my love

Along the wire

They say that the road

Ain't no place to start a family

Right down the line

It's been you and me

And lovin' a music man

Ain't always what it's supposed to be

Oh girl you stand by me

I'm forever yours, faithfully

Circus life

Under the big top world

We all need the clowns

To make us smile

Through space and time

Always another show

Wondering where I am

Lost without you

And being apart ain't easy on this love affair

Two strangers learn to fall in love again

I get the joy

Of rediscovering you

Oh girl, you stand by me

I'm forever yours, faithfully

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Faithfully, I'm still yours

I'm forever yours

Ever yours, faithfully

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Jonathan Cain

Faithfully lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing 

Journey - Faithfully (Official Video)

I am a lineman for the county 

And I drive the main road

Searchin' in the sun for another overload

I hear you singin' in the wire, 

I can hear you through the whine

And the Wichita lineman is still on the line

I know I need a small vacation 

But it don't look like rain

And if it snows that stretch down south won't ever stand the strain

And I need you more than want you, 

And I want you for all time

And the Wichita lineman is still on the line

And I need you more than want you, 

And I want you for all time

And the Wichita lineman is still on the line

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Jimmy Webb

Wichita Lineman lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group 

PTSD Patrol Alive Celebration Day

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
November 7, 2020 

Today the feature video is Kool and The Gang "Celebration" because healing is worth celebrating!

Everyday after "it" happened to you, from the first breath you took, to all the people who showed up to help you, all the people who stood by you and prayed for you, all those who gave you sympathy and showed you compassion, are all worthy reasons to celebrate.

The hours, days, weeks, months and years you spent suffering, are also worthy of celebrating because you survived them too. You survived those who turned away from you, and the darkness to arrive at this point in your life when you decided that that misery needed to end so you could begin to be happy. You forgave!

So yes, celebrate this new chapter of your life when you are healing instead of grieving!

#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Yahoo! This is your celebration

Yahoo! This is your celebration

Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate)

Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate)

There's a party goin' on right here

A celebration to last throughout the years

So bring your good times, and your laughter too

We gonna celebrate your party with you

Come on now

Celebration

Let's all celebrate and have a good time

Celebration

We gonna celebrate and have a good time

It's time to come together

It's up to you, what's your pleasure

Everyone around the world

Come on!

Yahoo! It's a celebration

Yahoo!

Celebrate good times, come on!

It's a celebration

Celebrate good times, come on!

Let's celebrate

We're gonna have a good time tonight

Let's celebrate, it's all right

We're gonna have a good time tonight

Let's celebrate, it's all right

Baby

We're gonna have a good time tonight (Celebration)

Let's celebrate, it's all right

We're gonna have a good time tonight (Celebration)

Let's celebrate, it's all right

Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate)

Celebrate good times, come on!

It's a celebration!

Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate)

Come on and celebrate, good times, tonight (Celebrate good times, come on!)

'Cause everything's gonna be all right

Let's celebrate (Celebrate good times, come on)

(Let's celebrate)

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Donald N Medder / Warren Williams

Celebration lyrics © Reservoir Media Management Inc 

PTSD Patrol GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
November 6, 2020

These are really stressful times. Between the pandemic and not knowing who are next president will be, or what else will happen in this year from hell, I needed a break. I took the day off to spend some time with friends and had a great time. Which is why the feature video today is, Girls Just Want To Have Fun" from Cyndi Lauper.

Aside from everything else, the extra stress of the election has me getting too little sleep. I am a news geek, so I am up late at night followed by getting up way too early. I know that I cannot control what other people do, or what they think, and that is frustrating. I can only control what I do and how I think.

The same applies to you. You control what you think and what you do. No one else has the power unless you give it to them.

When you have PTSD, you have a choice to make. If you are willing to settle for suffering, then you have already predicted your future. If you decide there a better way to live, then you just opened the door to possibilities. It will take a lot of work and that can be stressful at times. This is why you do need some time to just have fun...enjoy being alive!

I come home in the morning light

My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right?"

Oh mother dear we're not the fortunate ones

And girls, they wanna have fun

Oh girls just want to have fun

The phone rings in the middle of the night

My father yells, "What you gonna do with your life?"

Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one

But girls, they wanna have fun

Oh girls just want to have

That's all they really want

Some fun

When the working day is done

Oh girls, they wanna have fun

Oh girls just wanna have fun (girls, they wanna, wanna have fun, girls wanna have)

Some boys take a beautiful girl

And hide her away from the rest of the world

I want to be the one to walk in the sun

Oh girls, they wanna have fun

Oh girls just wanna have

That's all they really want

Some fun

When the working day is done

Oh girls, they wanna have fun

Oh girls just want to have fun (girls, they wanna, wanna have fun, girls wanna have)

They just wanna, they just wanna (girls)

They just wanna, they just wanna, oh girl (girls just wanna have fun)

Girls just wanna have fun

They just wanna, they just wanna

They just wanna, they just wanna (girls)

They just wanna, they just wanna, oh girl (girls just wanna have fun)

Girls just want to have fun

When the working

When the working day is done

Oh when the working day is done, oh girls

Girls, they wanna have fun, everybody

They just wanna, they just wanna (girls)

They just wanna, they just wanna, oh girls (girls just wanna have fun)

Girls just want to have fun

when the working

When the working day is done (they just wanna, they just wanna)

Oh when the working day is done, oh girl (girls just wanna have fun)

Girls just wanna have fun (they just wanna, they just wanna)

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Robert Hazard

Girls Just Want To Have Fun lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC