Living in the Shadow: PTSD, and Life Post-Deployment

Living in the Shadow: PTSD, and Life Post-Deployment

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is prevalent among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans today: The author takes us on an incredible personal journey, detailing his life living with PTSD, survivors guilt, and depression upon his return from Iraq in 2005 that you have to read to actually believe.

Through gritty yet delicate accounts of some of the most difficult times during his recovery, the reader can see into the mind of an Iraq war combat veteran with PTSD. Telling his story beginning with the day he returned from Iraq, he details his life in retrospect; he examines the thought processes going on inside his mind and how PTSD was forcing him to think and act.

â€œHave you ever walked into a restaurant and...had the awkward moment where you ask a server to sit you far away from any children? They end up thinking you're a creep or pedophile... How do you outright say to someone you had bad experiences in the war related to the loss of innocent life, and being around children is just too much for you?â€

In this personal narrative the author deals with difficult topics returning veterans face, such as coping with flashbacks, numbing the emotions with drugs and alcohol, avoiding triggers and the effect of PTSD on relationships. He pulls no punches, telling it like it is and being honest with himself and the reader.

"I wasn't sleeping well, I was having angry outbursts, and I was drinking a lot trying to partly celebrate, partly forget. The solution â€“ drugs."

This is more than just a story - this is a unique insight from the mind of a veteran struggling to relate to himself and others. If you know a veteran suffering from PTSD or seek to understand more about combat stress, this book will give you personal insight. Now with updated content.

"I write to continue my healing process, and to provide to others a unique insight into the mind of a veteran suffering from PTSD. Maybe you know a combat veteran, have one in your family or are in a relationship with one. Maybe you are a veteran trying to deal with this yourself."

The author served as a Reconnaissance Platoon leader in the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry (Stryker). â€œOn 4 October, 2004 I landed in Mosul, Iraq. I returned in 2007 for The Surge. Ten years later everything I fought and bled for sit under ISIS control. That is soul crushing.â€

Country	USA
Author	Mathew Bocian
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	2nd revised edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Mathew Bocian
Manufacturer	Mathew Bocian
NumberOfPages	108
PublicationDate	2015-07-26
Publisher	Mathew Bocian
ReleaseDate	2015-07-26
Studio	Mathew Bocian