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Belongs to: Therapist Reacts to Monsters by Shinedown
As someone who has struggled with PTSD for years, this song gives me life. You think you’ve beaten the monsters back and then they show up again.
You aren’t alone…
Absolutely 
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Yep…ptsd sucks…45 is relatable…but their cover of “simple man” is the best…
Every day is a new fight my friend. The strongest among us are the ones admitting the hardest battles they are fighting are internal. Keep up the fight, never give them ground.
I know wht u mean I’m X-firefighter I’m dealing with PTSD and Anxiety as well as depression I know exactly what u deal with every single day. I want u to know ur not alone My friend 
Truth. I’ve just learned to live with it and this song gives words to the feeling that I couldn’t describe
Completely relate. Shinedown has kept me out of some very dark places in life. Forever grateful for those four dudes and the community they have created.
The monsters will never win unless you let them…I stand up every day to mine because they are nothing and I have learned I’m so much stronger than they are
Always keep the good fight going 
PTSD is a beast in itself, and the way you describe those monsters is very relatable to me as well. There’s something about them that is awfully clingy and sticky. It acts like it was your very own shadow. You can walk ahead and be focused on the path forward, but they always seem to stay attached to you and follow you everywhere you go. Reminding you of how dark, scary and brutal life can be. It’s so hard to experience this. To have this thing within your mind and body that keeps on darkening what makes life beautiful and enjoyable, by reminding you over and over how unsafe you’ve felt in the past. It feels like being doomed, cursed or tainted, and makes you wonder at times if healing is even reachable.
It leaves a special mark that can’t be erased, can’t be avoided, can’t be ran away from, but is also so painful to learn to live with. It’s all about rebuilding trust in ourselves and in the possibility of being safe in this world. Rewriting our story. Not living according to our fears, and much more according to our own heart. But it’s hard. Hard to reinvent yourself when it feels like your world completely was shattered due to previous, unwanted adversity.
I believe you will show these monsters how much love, patience and confidence there is in your heart. Even if for now it’s muted due to the fear and pain you have known. You are whole, beautiful, strong. You will find your way again in this world, a way that these monsters will not be able to take away from you. I believe in you. 
Me too! Keep your head up and stay strong
Sometimes with bad intentions…feel your pain brothers
As a veteran, I think about my demons. They kept me safe and allowed me to protect my soldiers. Once you have let a demon go for good or bad, that demon will always try to influence your life. The fact that I have taken another’s life scares the hell out of me. That’s not something you come back from, and no therapy can make it do so. The thing that really scares me is that I now know what I am capable of. Everyone says they can kill to protect, but until you do, you have no idea what you are saying. Unless you have no heart, the souls you take will be with you until your last days.
You can always store your weapons in burlap and hide then them. But one day, those weapons will be dug up along with those feelings to do what is just.
The most fearful are actually the fearless. They have played everything in their head 1000 times, causing fearlessness. Those who say they aren’t scared are the fearful and will be the first to go.
I feel ya bro …lost everything but my last breath in this last year …ride tools being a independent contractor my income crazy no matter how much i have to get up …cant @@tonyc2354
Right there with u , I have struggled with my monsters . I suffer from PTSD and some days r better than others but it’s a constant struggle not to put that rope around my neck just to get some rest for the monster knocking at the door . I think I need to get a bigger lock for the door that holds the monster 