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| | Notices | Welcome to PTSD Forum. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a life threatening, debilitating disorder that can break down a sufferer’s body through anxiety and stress. Further it poses a significant suicide risk resulting from the brains neurological imbalance and chemical depression. Sufferers often live in denial, thus this community is aimed at helping PTSD sufferers help themselves through others experiences, guidance and education. We are here for the sufferer, spouse and families surrounding PTSD. Spouses and family are too often forgotten in this equation, and often they receive all the worst that PTSD has to offer. If you're involved in any way with PTSD, get registered and help yourself now. Non-active members will eventually be deleted. If you are not a sufferer, carer or someone within the mental health industry, and active, then there is little reason for you to be a member of this forum. Non-active members with zero posts are deleted periodically during the year. |  | 
02-02-2008, 09:56 AM
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| |  Hi - Any Good Books To Help?
hi, my names niki and ive suffered ptsd for about 5 years now.
my trauma happened in a hospital that was meant to help me from another traume that happened when i was a child. thats the most heartbreaking part of my story which i dont have the courage to write now. ive been lurking on the board for a while now but this is the first time ive written. i just wanted to know if anyone can recommend me a good book about how to handle ptsd. the most horrible part of this disorder for me is coping with the time ive lost and getting flashbacks. not particulary flashbacks of the trauma, but how i was before the trauma.
it trully breaks my heart when to remember how happy and how free i was. its weird but i feel like ive lived two different lives. the one before i went to the bad hospital and the one after. sometimes i forget i even had a good life, until i get those flashbacks and i have too painfully and obsessivly go through them. i wish i could just block them out but this doesnt work. anyway, if anyone knows of a good self help books please get back to me, thankyou and take care,
niki xx  |
02-02-2008, 10:10 AM
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Recommended Books To Buy outlines in priority order.... |
07-02-2008, 04:09 PM
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Hi niki and Welcome to the forum.  It's great that you posted. And, hope to see you join in more around the board, obviously in your time, and only if and when you're so inclined.
Hope you're taking care.
Hope |
07-02-2008, 09:05 PM
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Hi Nikki,
Welcome to the forum.  |
08-02-2008, 04:08 PM
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hi anthony, do you have anymore books that deal with the way a family can help a PTSD sufferer? |
08-02-2008, 04:13 PM
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Pastrychef, I own the following two books Anthony lists, and both are excellent. If you read these along with books for PTSD sufferers such as "I Can't Get Over It" and articles pertaining to PTSD itself, you really cannot go wrong.
Secondary Traumatic Stress
This book was written for those who counsel trauma, so those counsellors learn how not to transfer patient trauma to themselves effectively. That means, if your a carer of someone with PTSD you likely live with worst than what a therapist gets from counselling.
Coping With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Guide for Families
This handbook describes how the characteristics of PTSD manifest in daily life and details its effects on the emotional, mental, and physical aspects of an individual’s life, including disorders and physical disabilities that may occur jointly or as a result. The work analyzes the affect of PTSD on the couple and the family, detailing possible reactions, and compares the characteristics of healthy and PTSD families. The work explains how and by whom the disorder is diagnosed, with discussion of cross-cultural perspectives on PTSD and the effects of cultural difference on its diagnosis and treatment. |
13-02-2008, 08:00 AM
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Hi nikigeorgina -
I've read a lot of the post, and the stickies about how the forum is run and also I've surfed some other PTSD forums and like this one because it's closely and well moderated. The people who post seem very kind and want to help. This forum seems very safe and a healthy place to talk about whats happened when you feel comfortable.
I bet the books help you feel comfortable with sharing which many people find helpful. |
14-02-2008, 09:03 PM
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Hi nikigeorgina
i am reading "I cant get over it " by Aphrodite Matsakis ph.D. i am finding it very helpul,you may too
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