The Myth of Overcoming PTSD: NOT

By Andrew D. Cohn and Ollen Stephens

Book Overview

Over fifty years ago, I fought in a war that rendered me speechless after enduring one of the most horrific wars in history. Upon my arrival in Vietnam, it took months before I was able to accept my predicament, and deal with a living situation that I had no control over and was a completely foreign encounter fighting in a strange land where the residents of this land were willing to fight to the death. In boot camp, being trained as a Marine combat soldier, we were all taught to literally kill, or be killed. However, as easy as that sounds, that reality was terrifying and entirely unexpected bringing about fear on all levels. All that we were taught was the attempt by the Corp to prepare us as well as they could for combat and how to engage the enemy and for those six or seven months, we were trained to stay alive by any means necessary. Little did I know what the Corp taught me was not nearly enough to guarantee my return and in fact, we were all told that many of us wouldn't make it back home, or at least not in one piece. This was the true beginning of what I knew trauma to be, and that feeling has lasted until this very day.I want my readers to know that this introduction is written to assist those who have been traumatized and to assure you that all is not lost unless you give up. If you are reading this book and have lived with some harrowing experience far too long, take a deep breath and learn that you are not alone. However, it will be your practice of devout due diligence to seek treatment and support to learn how to cope with an entire litany of emotions that will cripple you and stunt any growth you could possibly measure. If it were not for my discipline to find answers that I sorely needed, I would not be here today to write this self-help book. Therefore, this introduction is a summary of candid accounts as to what I have done to survive. It is also a summary of past and current episodes that could have destroyed me emotionally leaving me empty and unfulfilled, and yes, suicidal. I want to emphasize yet again, that overcoming PTSD is impossible, but it is treatable if you take the time to exercise your freedom of choice to guarantee a better mental state of mind above all else. Nothing and no one can come before your mission to heal the torn and fragmented etchings held within your mind that will distract the countless interruption to your recovering some portion of your life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08B39QPL3
• ISBN13: 9798654059604
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"