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14-12-2007, 11:50 PM
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Awakening, how about changing your idea Slightly to PTSD: " Proud to Survive Daily" It could also be "Prepared to Survive Daily"
Anthony, you could also take this direction.
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15-12-2007, 08:11 AM
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Herc,
I actually like the direction that you are going. Kind of puts a more positive note to PTSD. I know..........PTSD is NOT positive, but we can manage our symptoms to a degree.
Last edited by becvan; 15-12-2007 at 08:27 AM.
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15-12-2007, 11:58 AM
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Herc that's a much better idea and so true! It kind of gets the message across that whilst we may have survived the initial trauma, it is still a life threatening ongoing battle for survival each day. |
16-12-2007, 02:29 AM
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I love
"Proud to Survive Daily"
or even
"Proud to Smile Daily" ??
I also like a line I once heard:
"Once a victim, now a survivor"
I suppose you guys have all seen that one plenty - sorry, I'm pretty new at this... |
25-12-2007, 12:17 PM
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great ideas! i've designed several t-shirts for various organizations, including a local volunteer fire dept. their big yearly fundraiser was a barbeque and calf fry. (that's a very Oklahoman tradition, fried bovine testicles) My image was a very distressed looking bull with a chef's hat and apron, standing on his back legs which were scrunched together veerrrrry tightly. crude, yes, but it was just what they were looking for!
i appreciate all the amusing shirt slogans I see on the web, like: I used to care, but now I take a pill for that. for me that one really hit home.
Here's one I thought of:
Help turn
Post Traumatic Survivor Disorder
into
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27-12-2007, 10:25 AM
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Thought of one for the stigma's of any mental disorders - "I survived trauma... PTSD sufferers are no wimps" and "Think PTSD is for the weak? I survived horror...what about you?".
For the days when we want no one near us ! - "I suffer with PTSD = Get too close and I'll lamp you!"
Last edited by Lisa; 27-12-2007 at 10:27 AM.
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