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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook

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This book may well become the best friend of every person recovering from PTSD. I frequently find myself turning to this book for direction and comfort when the symptoms become overwhelming. It is a powerfully effective tool against the panic and feelings of isolation that I face as a person with PTSD. The clear, concise explanations, acceptance of the reality of these symptoms, and specific instructions and suggestions for professional and self-treatment, organized in an easy-to-read format, have proven invaluable in my own recovery. Glenn has taken the fear and confusion of PTSD and turned it into an understandable and manageable situation. I would recommend this book to anyone suffering from PTSD. It may save your life, and will certainly save your sanity. I can't say enough good things about it. It has, truly, changed my life.

I was abused sexually (and in other ways) throughout my childhood within my home and by other offenders. I experienced the impact of PTSD from a very early age, but it mostly went untreated until I was in my early 20's. This book has a very in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the symptoms of PTSD, what causes PTSD and has a sensitive introduction to many aspects of healing and healing options from PTSD caused by many traumas (including sexual child abuse, rape, and violence). This is a very balanced book that talks comprehensively about depression, anxiety, triggers, intimacy and everything that happens to survivors of trauma. Over the years of my healing I have been able to turn to this book again and again.

The book talks about being a victim, survivor, thriver and helps trauma survivors to learn how to break free of the trauma and live a healthy life emotionally, mentally, physically, spiritually.

Ultimately we will all find our own way to healing, but it always helps to be educated and to receive support. This book is very in-depth and well rounded with many healing options to consider such as writing about our traumatic experiences, and meditation to name just a few (many of these healing options were helpful to me). There is hope. I often go back to this book for support when difficult emotions such as anger, grief, or trauma triggers re-surface (sometimes reading it in the middle of the night when I can't sleep). I wish you all luck on your individual journeys to healing.

Have been with PTSD for 7 years now. When I came across Dr. Schiraldis book on this very site, I didn't know what I was in for! - Most precise and compassionate information, so much help I'd never dreamed of, and the best possible of tools to learn how to cope - how to live with PTSD, and to start overcome it.
I'll never forget how chapter one begins, "PTDS results form exposure to an overwhelmingly stressful event or series of events.... It is a normal response by normal people to an abnormal situation". How I needed to hear that! While everybody thought I'd gone mad, including myself.
Later, I told my shrink about this phenomenal book, I said to her: "Finally, a "user's manual - a book for the man on the floor"... and she'd laugh and comment that I must have gotten somewhere, saying that!
Now - dear Mr. Shiraldi, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have no idea just how much you have helped me!
(Pray this book will reach many more - no one could get better help/information/advice/suggesions than what this book provides!

I purchased this book in April after beginning therapy and first being diagnosed with chronic PTSD. I have suffered multiple traumas in my life: This book has been an excellent supplement to my therapy. It has helped me see fully realize the extent of my symptoms and also to see how the secondary symptoms have affected my relationships with others and thus gain perspective on much of the criticism I have endured through the years from colleagues and peers. PTSD affects all areas of the sufferer's life, including interpersonal relationships, school, the workplace, and the home. I am only now understanding how my PTSD has affected my life, and beginning to get a glimpse of a more positive future ahead. Futhermore, it has helped me to see that a positive support system is essential to recovery, and I do not have that within my family, so it will have to be cultivated from my friends. I also highly recommend this book for its straight forward, no nonsense style. I am a graduate business student at a top program and upon my diagnosis, I was able to integrate reading "Sourcebook" in with my heavy courseload without feeling like I was wasting time on a publication that was too much talk and not enough solution.

As clinical and forensic psychologist I use this book in my practice with my clients who have experienced a trauma and are suffering from PTSD. This book is an excellent tool to educate trauma survivors about the symptoms they are experiencing and gives step by step tools and lessons to help overcome the symptoms of PTSD. After one experiences a trauma the psychological symptoms that come afterwards, often times months afterwards, can make the person feel as if they are going crazy. This book helps the trauma victim understand the predictable symptoms, the reason they exist and what to do to cope and eventually overcome them. This book helps trauma victims move from victim to survivor.

A wonderful book.

We tend to associate PTSD with Vietnam Vets, and the term was first coined during the seventies, after the War, but PTSD refers to trauma of whatever kind, from whatever source.

There are some wonderful reviews from people who have found the book to be helpful in their own recovery, and that was one of the things that made me buy it. I was not disappointed.

Even among my Vietnam Vet friends, who range from Marines and combat medics to Army Nurses and Red Cross Donut Dollies, there is a great deal of variation in how they experience PTSD.

As many of the non-Vet readers will know, trauma is trauma, whether it is combat-related or not, and this book approaches it in that way.

One Vietnam Vet friend who worked on the IWCS system in Thailand (troposcatter long haul communications) suffers from PTSD, even though his support role to the Vietnam-based forces technically kept him out of harm's way.

Whether you are interested in self-healing or in understanding the pain of others close to you, this book is a wonderful place to start.

Dr. Schiraldi has a gift for making this very complex condition simple to understand. I think this book will be very useful for both the people suffering from trauma and the mental health professionals who help them. It is an oasis of practical principles and skills with many useful, detailed instructions. It leaves me with a feeling of hope, that much can be done to reduce the suffering of PTSD.

This book on PTSD is very helpful in explaining the symptoms, remedies, and recommendations for individuals dealing with PTSD. I recommend it to anyone who feels they may suffer from PTSD, as it is a great relief to hear about other cases and symptoms of PTSD. Because of this book, I have realized that I'm not nuts and I'm not alone in my symptoms or in my diagnoses.

I found this book to be easy to read and written in plain english. It will be a great source of information for my clients. It is not always easy to find a text that is user friendly for most levels. The author does a wonderful job incorporating all of the information in a way that is not intimidating to the average person.

As a sufferer of PTSD, I find this book to be one of my saving graces. When things get rough, I pull out the book. (it actually has its own place on my nightstand!) There are so many great techniques and explanations included that are in real english and easy to read and understand. I wish I could have found it a year ago!