If you could recommend one book for someone with PTSD?
If you could recommend one book for someone with PTSD, what book would you recommend. I have the PTSD workbook by Mary Beth Williams, but I am looking for a book that explains PTSD and triggers and why I react to things the way I react to them. I guess if you could recommend a book that is like the Bible for PTSD, the one book you think everyone with PTSD should read, that would help me. Sometimes I understand why I react the way I do, what causes my trauma, but what I don't know is how to fix things. Please don't give rude answers, Thanks in advance for help.
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Sorry...There is NO ONE Book on PTSD...
There is an explanation in the Diagnostic Statistical Manuel IV (DSM IV: 309.81)
You can also go to the Vietnam Veterans of America Inc site www.vva.org
and click on their Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) section...
It is about the most definitive and based on reality...
If you are not hooked into the Dept of VA Medical Center or
a Vet Center for PTSD...PLEASE do so today...
Some True Facts about Combat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD)
01..."THERE IS NO KNOWN CURE FOR COMBAT PTSD...NONE !!!!
(If there were, there would be Many, Many of us standing in that line...)
02...Combat PTSD has been around since Cain slew Able, by many Names...
03...Without Combat PTSD Treatment It WILL get far Worse...
(As in abandon all hope...)
04...Do not drink Alcohol or take Street Drugs...
(The Prisons are full of those who did...)
(Once you obtain a Label of Alky and/or Drug Abuser...
the Dept of VA will blame all your problems on that label...)
05...Actually you FIRST have to accept the Fact that you do have "Combat PTSD"...
(..also be very conscience of the Fact that there are 100's of BS Wannabes...)
( trying to obtain VA Comp with fraudulent claims for PTSD)
06...Also have to accept the FACT that you will never be the person you were
before Combat and having PTSD...ever...You have seen the Elephant and
there is no turning back the clock...
07...You will cease to hang around with all of your old school friends...
as you have Matured far beyond your age and they are still immature
"Middle School Drama Queens"...No longer have anything in common...
Their petty BS will drive you nuts...
08...Your startled response will never go away...may lessen over time ???
09...Will have trouble sleeping...as you are Hyper Alert 24/7, just as in Combat...
...also that they come in the Night...Night mares/Cold Sweats etc...
10...You WILL develop HEART Problems real early in Life...We ALL do...
11...It is like your body has aged 20 years from being in actual combat,
so you develop illness's medical problems earlier in life...
12...Your whole Believe system has been F**ked with and changed...
You can contact me through this site if you wish...
Its not an omnipotent resource to use, but if you want a book on entertainment value I recommend:
bobbie ann mason - in country - its about a family from kentucky and a survivor of war and his struggles. That's one of the things in it. The movie version stars Bruce Willis.
Another one: Book - An Anthology by Tim O'Brien - The Vietnam Reader.