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 . . .

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Permalink Reply by Lem Genovese on August 24, 2010 at 12:17am

DARK BLUE:
Its a form of the Blues that only good therapy can handle.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel J Morrison on August 26, 2010 at 11:15am

DARK BLUE??? Please explain why this is a color of healing. Dark blue can be a color that drowns out all shades of blue. So, therefore, why not black? Black drowns out all color. This is more or less what PTSD does to our lives. It drowns out all significanc, self identity, feelings, etc. I re-thought the white, for it could signify. the color of hope, the light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak. Please,inform me on what the choice is to be so, I can submit some designs. One idea is the dry hootch symbol. We could have it a cracked cup with black on one side and white on the other with a red cross in the middle showing healing by bringing the two sides together to make a divided vet feel whole. Please tell me what you think. I welcome the crtiquing. God bless, Daniel

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Permalink Reply by Connie Kangas on September 1, 2010 at 8:56am

From Wikipedia: "Purple" -

Military
In the US and United Kingdom militaries, purple refers to programs or assignments that are "joint", i. e., that are not confined to a single service such as the army or navy, but apply to the entire defense establishment. In the Canadian Armed Forces they are known as purple trades. Assignment to one or more joint billets is required for promotion to flag rank (Rear Admiral and higher) in the U.S. Navy. Officers in joint billets are sometimes referred to as "wearing purple" (the phrase is purely metaphorical as there are no purple uniforms in the U.S. armed forces, UK armed forces or Canadian Armed Forces.)
During and before World War II, the Japanese used a code known as PURPLE or the Purple Code. The Allies' military successes in the Pacific theater depended on the fact that the Japanese did not know that Allied cryptographers had broken the code.
The Purple Heart is a US military decoration awarded in the name of the President of the USA to those who have been wounded or killed while serving on or after April 5, 1917 with the U.S. military

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Permalink Reply by Victor Romeo on November 25, 2010 at 6:09pm

This is good stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Kelly S on September 20, 2010 at 7:17am

Personaly PTSD looks Olive Drab, black and brown all together. Maybe we should have a camo poppy. Because PTSD has more then one head.

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Permalink Reply by Connie Kangas on September 20, 2010 at 9:09am

Hi, Kelly: I'm not a veteran; I'm a supporter of Dryhootch and its mission, so I can only speak from my point of view. But I like your idea of camouflage...also, wristbands have been mentioned by others as a fundraiser for the hootch -- and wristbands can be purchased in camouflage. Wristbands are also a good idea because it seems to me they would reach a wider audience than a flower/poppy, ie, adults, children, older folks, etc. They would be instantly identifiable as "military", if that is the idea that members want to put across. Where does this project stand? Just curious!

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Permalink Reply by 3i2blxn14zbx1 on December 29, 2010 at 4:05pm

The camo idea allows for the "hidden side" of the PTSD medical arena which many individuals don't comprehend or thet don't want to believe PTSD exists. The choice of colors for the lettering on the wristband can be where the expression of all the sides of PTSD can be exhibited. I would even believe that the old "mood ring" changing color concept might be a method to express that. Never-the-less; I am in favor of a wristband style, these last a long time, just like the life long experience of PTSD.

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Permalink Reply by Betsy Beckner Saunders on September 25, 2010 at 12:15am

I think of the blue forget me not flower, if there are flowers involved. I think the public may be somewhat inundated at this point with flowers, or maybe I am just not good at "distributing" poppies. Something camo would be really nice, and identifiable.

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Permalink Reply by Victor Romeo on November 25, 2010 at 6:10pm

Disabled American Veterans already use the blue Forget-Me-Nots.

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Permalink Reply by Betsy Beckner Saunders on January 5, 2011 at 11:28am

Doesn't matter if another organization already uses the color or not. The color blue stands for faith, also brings about solitude and peace. I like forget me nots because the return every spring, reminding me of renewal. They remind me of the strength of the human spirit.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Linder on November 22, 2010 at 8:04am

Since PTSD is associated with Depression... Depression is known as the "blues"... and blue does have a calming effect on the psyche... I think the flower should be