Ptsd Memoir

$2.99 only for the 4th of July Holiday! "It doesn’t take long for me to realize that my worst day at home is nothing compared to my best day here. I keep telling myself that I made a big mistake by joining the USMC, but it’s too damn late! I’m here now, and so I’m just going to have to make the most of it." Richard Oliver is a single father at the end of his rope. Financially strapped, stressed out, and emotionally broken, he seeks a way out of his situation. With few options available, he enlists in the Marines to give his son a better life, believing that he will never get the ...

This sequel to Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man digs deep into the mind of a Khe Sanh vet. The author, Ernest Spencer, opens up and shares with the world his life experiences from both before and after surviving the longest battle in the Vietnam War. How does wartime service change a person? Ernest shares his struggles with finding a place to fit back into the American Dream. Some, like the author, transition back into society very well in the eyes of the world, yet the demons deep inside are grappled with daily.

This is the memoir of Sgt Carnell Smith Jr aka Sgt WarDawg. As a U.S. Marine Infantry Rifleman, the Sgt was called on to serve 3 tours in Iraq in 2003, 2004, & 2005 including the very 1st day of the War in March 2003. This is the story of a kid from Orlando who joined the Marines at 18 years old and went on to turn 19, 20, and 21 in the throes of the Iraq War during its first 3 years. Ending with the Sgt's tales of struggle with PTSD, this a memoir that relates to an entire generation of Warfighters in America.

For 18 years of my life, I dealt with harm daily. I suffered over 40 years with a substantial assortment of trauma-related manifestations. The devastation of the problems began when I was a child and lasted until I was in my mid-40s. I know my story sounds bleak but don’t be discouraged. Peace, laughter, joy, and happiness eventually came my way.

Fragments of A Half-Life is a rare collection of intimate writings from award-winning poet and philosopher Emily Maroutian. This fragmented anthology diverges from her familiar uplifting tone, allowing the reader to journey into the mind of the poet as she comes to terms with past trauma, uncomfortable truths, and the pain of life after recovery. Written over the span of ten years, this collection features passages and poetry from old journals that were later discarded. The reflective accounts serve as candid observations and confessions about the difficulty of healing, including variants ...

Her only way to survive is to start believing in herself. “I know it’s scary and I’m trying to explain to you, that when you’re scared, this is how you need to move. You need to look at the object and advance, you can’t stand still. Those who stand still get killed, and you can’t stop. Understand? They get killed. They kill them: he stops – he’s killed, he stops – he’s killed. You can’t stop, even if it’s terrifying, even if it’s really, really scary. It’s a very good practice in war and in life. You can’t let fear make you freeze, you need to walk, go straight...

I was born living the American dream. I had a mother and father who loved me. An older sister who cared for me. A beautiful house on a lake and extended family close by. But life has this way of flipping you inside out. By age two, we'd lost our home. By age six, my mother had died. For the next five years, we moved from place to place, crisscrossing the country.

The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: the world of the fiercely driven biologist and anthropologist Neville White, and the world of the hunter-gatherer clans of remote northern Australia he studied and lived with. As White tried to understand the world as it was understood on the other side of the vast cultural divide, he was also trying to transcend the mental scars he suffered on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Tina's struggle continues in The Terrorist Maker. Surrounded by murderers her only chance to survive is to start using her gift. His gaze is stony, his eyelids at half-mast. And I can’t look at him at all, which is why I’m lying with my eyes closed. I’m afraid to see something frightening in these eyes. But I feel that I need to look. Otherwise, this ‘frightening thing’ inside him will suffocate me. I realize, that if I don’t do this, I’ll be left to die exactly like that man, about whom they later simply forgot. Therefore, however frightening and difficult it might be, I’m ...

Jonathan Garrett Green experienced a relatively “normal” childhood. He would not know how his upbringing would shape his future. Dealing with various obstacles, J. Green would display resiliency like no other. From fighting police in Alabama in 2006, to becoming a human rights advocate, the mind and spirit of J. Green could not be defeated.