A Stranger in My Bed takes you inside Debbie Sprague's life for an intimate view of a love story disrupted by the invasion of PTSD-thirty years after the Vietnam War. The cycle moves from love to fear, anger, and despair. Stories unfold of her husband's battle with PTSD, displaying typical behaviors, triggers, and moods. Those familiar with this world will be comforted: "That sounds just like my life, and I thought I was the only one." Others will find a new awareness: "I had no idea it was like...
Despite the fact that we have been studying posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since at least the late 1800s, it remains prevalent and, in many cases intractable. Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology of PTSD: Hidden Ghosts of Traumatic Memory begins with the assertion that we struggle to successfully treat PTSD because we simply do not understand it well enough. Using the phenomenological approach of Maurice Merleau-Ponty - which focuses on the first-person, lived experience of the trauma victim...
Although physicians during World War I, and scholars since, have addressed the idea of disorders such as shell shock as inchoate flights into sickness by men unwilling to cope with war's privations, they have given little attention to the agency many soldiers actually possessed to express dissent in a system that medicalized it. In Germany, these men were called Kriegszitterer, or "war tremblers," for their telltale symptom of uncontrollable shaking. Based on archival research that constitutes t...
Depression is a state of mind disorder that has something to do with persistent and extreme feeling of sadness, low state of mind, and loss of curiosity. It is with the capacity of causing you to feel worthless. The condition produces negative effects on how you think, take action, and experience - your response to our life generally. It generally makes actions that you loved participating in become uninteresting. That is a fairly common psychological disorder. In case you are currently battling...
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
by Julian D. Ford, Damion J. Grasso, Jon D. Elhai, and Christine A. Courtois
"Married to the Military: A Survival Guide for Military Wives, Girlfriends and Women in Uniform "
by Meredith Leyva
The Unofficial Scoop on Military Life Whether you're dating, engaged, or married to an active military servicemember or reservist-or you've just signed up yourself-you may feel as if you've somehow married the United States military! While there are plenty of orientation books for him, there are almost no handy, user-friendly resources for you. Meredith Leyva, a military wife and founder of CinCHouse.com, the Internet's largest community for military wives, girlfriends, and women in uniform, de...
Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood
by Wayne Muller
Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become
by Lynne Jones