What Color is PTSD?
What color is PTSD. The American Legion uses the red poppy, the Vietnam Vets pick the "orange blossom" from agent orange fame.
What color is PTSD? What flower/poppy can we use to take to events and pass the message to think of those with invisible wounds, buy wounds that reach up in the middle of the night to strike and threaten again, as if the war never ended?
what color . . .
What color is PTSD? What flower/poppy can we use to take to events and pass the message to think of those with invisible wounds, buy wounds that reach up in the middle of the night to strike and threaten again, as if the war never ended?
what color . . .
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Permalink Reply by bob@dryhootch on -
Great ideas! Several thoughts to throw out:
I just got back from a VVA Chapter mtg and asked re poppies as they handed out at several Brewers games. VVA offers orange (re Agent orange) and a black/white re POW's. They cost them $130 per one thousand ( 13cents each.) If you have at an event (i.e. ball game) you cannot "sell" only ask for donations and give flower in exchange. I worry about a pin as I would think the minimum cost would be over $1 each. Re bracelets, great idea, anyone know cost in min volumes of 1000 at a time?
Colors, does Purple Heart use a purple poppy? THat would be a conflict and would not want to offend them.
There seems to be a number of suggestions of blue? Is one "blue" with depression, PTSD, but also the color of the sky "hope"? Of course, where would we get made??? What flower is blue we could get a grower to name for PTSD?
thoughts?
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Permalink Reply by Connie Kangas on -
Morning glories can be blue -- perhaps someone can check with the florist across the street from dryhootch for suggestions on a flower that would appropriate.....
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Permalink Reply by Victor Romeo on -
Gold Star Wives use purple pansies as their flower.
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Permalink Reply by bob@dryhootch on
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SAGE - how did I forget this plant of healing. Dr Bernstein, PTSD Guru @ Milwaukee's VA taught of its place of healing in Native American culture for its warriors. Its healing history also comes form most cultures where it has grown. So its been sitting here in front of us all this time. This green plant with blue or purple flowers has always been the plant associated with PTSD, shell shock ,weak heart, etc etc.
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Permalink Reply by Breezy Brzeski on
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I like that idea. Sage is a healing and grounding plant. That is my vote.
Breeze
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Permalink Reply by Tom Williams on
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It should be the color of olives as a symbol of the peace promised by the olive branch.
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Permalink Reply by Nadya Diaz on -
how about a white rose, to represent the innocence that some veterans desire, to be free from PTSD... i did a paper on the comparison of Vietnam Vets and Iraqi Vets with PTSD in school i read that some called it "having a Scarlet P on your record".. (can some one explain what that means?) anyways back to the flower color, maybe that scarlet color...?
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Permalink Reply by Mark Menting on -
What color is PTSD?
Smokey Gray. It lies somewhere in the schema of you just never know if the smoke will clear momentarily, go pitch black or fire up.
But if we are looking for colors, heck you know me. OLIVE DRAB!
No really, though, the Wild Dagga or Lions Head, is a Lamiaceae flower, in the same family as all the sage, rosemary and thyme family. , that has many medicinal properties to it, Check it out. But Sage works also http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/9448/sage13279844.jpg, but looks a lot like a purple poppy, which ironically is the opium poppy plant.
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Permalink Reply by kenyatta yamel on
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I don't have PTSD but everything i have heard about it sounds grey. some people in the deepest pit of PTSD seem to understand something is wrong but with all the distortion, it's hard to see clearly.
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Permalink Reply by Coleen Chapin-Glasscock on -
PTSD can be black as the night with no moon or stars; its a h*** as deep and wide as misunderstanding can be. It hurts everyone around the afflicted and no one knows whats happening~ most go on misunderstood not only by others but mostly by themselves. The isolation from a life not fully lived is a scream of silence that dares utter nothing for fear of more misunderstanding.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel J Morrison on -
I think that black and white pretty much sum up PTSD. Black is our darkest hour in PTSD and white is plain to signify the loss of significance and the numbing of our feelings. We repress these feelings so often, that soon we become a plain empty shell afraid to show or share our terrors. God bless, Daniel
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Permalink Reply by Daniel J Morrison on
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have we come to a decison? Pins or bracelets? What colors? I would like to be kept informed. Thank you & God bless, Daniel
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