Download or read book A Warrior Married to His Wife and PTSD written by Curtis Butler and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Baghdad, Iraq, in October 2003 and again in 2006 was like living in a Crock-Pot. It was hot, and the breeze, if you can call it that, was just as hot. We would travel to strange destinations to attend meetings, drop off supplies, or pick up soldiers. We even performed guard duty and with the scorching temperatures. The protective gear that we wore added about twenty degrees and an extra thirty pounds. The temperature was approximately 140 degrees or better. I was told to put on some suntan lotion, and I thought the officer was making a joke because I did not know a black man could get a sunburn in the desert; this is to be true. P roud T ough S trong D etermined

Download or read book A Warrior Married to His Wife and PTSD written by Curtis Butler III and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Baghdad, Iraq, in October 2003 and again in 2006 was like living in a Crock-Pot. It was hot, and the breeze, if you can call it that, was just as hot. We would travel to strange destinations to attend meetings, drop off supplies, or pick up soldiers. We even performed guard duty and with the scorching temperatures. The protective gear that we wore added about twenty degrees and an extra thirty pounds. The temperature was approximately 140 degrees or better. I was told to put on some suntan lotion, and I thought the officer was making a joke because I did not know a black man could get a sunburn in the desert; this is to be true. P roud T ough S trong D etermined

Download or read book Warrior Wife written by Hillary Sigrist and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you hold the hand of a warrior, youre joining him on a questone that traverses glory and pain. Its a journey traveled by few, and fewer make it through till completion. Extraordinary men have run our colors across the battlefields of history, but behind them have been the women who have held vigil as they go. This passage in matrimony is unique in the way the military will change you, your husband, and your marriage. PTSD, deployments, or never-ending household moves are just some ways a new normal lifestyle will challenge even the strongest foundations. But what doesnt break you will make you stronger if you let it! This book will illustrate the courage, support, and faith it takes to overcome the challenges of military marriages, as well as the tools, understanding, and insight to enter into the rewarding experience of being a warrior wife.

Download or read book Tears of a Warrior written by E. Anthony Seahorn and published by . This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author writes from his experience as a young army officer in Vietnam who served with the Dauntless Black Lions of the 1st Infantry Division. His spouse and co-author describes her perspective as a wife and mother who has lived the past thirty years with a veteran who suffers from the physical, and more specifically, the mental scars of combat. You will become familiar with how PTSD affects the veterans and their families and explore strategies for living with PTSD.

Download or read book Married to PTSD written by Fred Bo Dunning and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People believe that PTSD is a military thing; it's not; it is a normal human reaction to a horrific event that includes civilians. The stories in this book are from military families. Still, they cross the line into the civilian community because PTSD does not discriminate. Most PTSD in the world comes from the civilian sector of society. Since so much PTSD research is done by the Veterans Administration, so many believe that most PTSD comes from combat. As a therapist specializing in PTSD, I am here to tell you it is not. So many folks think of military members as heroes. They are not heroes. The heroes are the spouses, children, and family members who keep things together while their loved one is gone or struggling with PTSD symptoms. Those who live with PTSD symptoms cannot make it without their loved ones being there for them. These stories were written to help everyone understand that they are not alone. If you are Married to PTSD, I hope you can recognize yourself in these stories. I hope they will help you understand that being married to PTSD is not easy but possible.

Download or read book Wounded Warrior Wounded Home written by Marshele Carter and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every wounded warrior, there is a wounded home--an immediate and extended family and community impacted by their loved one's war experiences. Every day service members are returning from combat deployments to their families. And every day war comes home with them. When a combat veteran struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or traumatic brain injury (TBI), every member of the family experiences the effects. Spouses, parents, and children must undergo changes on the home front, a process that resembles the phases of grief. Confusion, hurt, anger, guilt, fatigue, and fear lie behind their brave smiles and squared shoulders. Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home gives hurting families a look inside the minds and hearts of wounded warriors and guides them in developing their own personal plan for physical, emotional, and spiritual wholeness in the wake of war. The authors, one the wife of a career US Navy SEAL and the other a clinical psychologist and Vietnam veteran, speak from their own experiences of living with PTSD and TBI. They also share insights from dozens of families and careful research, offering readers a hope-filled way forward.

Download or read book Once a Warrior Always a Warrior written by Charles Hoge and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential handbook for anyone who has ever returned from a war zone, and their spouse, partner, or family members. Being back home can be as difficult, if not more so, than the time spent serving in a combat zone. It’s with this truth that Colonel Charles W. Hoge, MD, a leading advocate for eliminating the stigma of mental health care, presents Once a Warrior—Always a Warrior, a groundbreaking resource with essential new insights for anyone who has ever returned home from a war zone. In clear practical language, Dr. Hoge explores the latest knowledge in combat stress, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), mTBI (mild traumatic brain injury), other physiological reactions to war, and their treatment options. Recognizing that warriors and family members both change during deployment, he helps them better understand each other’s experience, especially living with enduring survival skills from the combat environment that are often viewed as “symptoms” back home. The heart of this book focuses on what’s necessary to successfully navigate the transition—“LANDNAV” for the home front. Once a Warrior—Always a Warrior shows how a warrior’s knowledge and skills are vital for living at peace in an insane world.

Download or read book The War at Home written by Shawn J. Gourley and published by Columbia's Fire. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Gourley's husband returned home from his third tour in the Middle East, cracks in his personality had widen dramatically into full-on fractures. The next four and a half years were very difficult, and at times, downright terrifying for her and the children. Finally he was diagnosed with PTSD in August 2009. Those are the broad strokes of their story, but the details of how she fought to save her family will leave readers transfixed until the end.

Download or read book Married To PTSD written by Fred Bo Dunning and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why your spouse is acting the way they are? Why do they refuse to get help for their PTSD? Why is it taking so long to get past their PTSD? And why will they not just get over it and move on? All these questions are standard and discussed in this book. Married to PTSD, stories from the trenches is a book where accounts have been put together to help family members answer some of these questions. Bo has researched and worked with hundreds of veterans and their family members over the years surrounding PTSD and TBI. He understands that the spouses and family members need to know what they are seeing in their loved one with PTSD and TBI, and how to react. The short stories in this book will help you know that you are not alone and give you some answers to your questions surrounding your loved one's PTSD and TBI.

Download or read book Crisis and Chaos written by Colleen McCarty-Gould and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is marked by symptoms following exposure to extreme trauma. For loved ones of combat veterans unable to shake the grip of war, the homefront is indeed a battlefield. For many families, the memories of the departure, and all the plans and hopes for tomorrow, are shattered when the loved one returns. He comes home, but he's different. He returns from that faraway place, but yet a part of him seems to be there still, thousands of miles away. For centuries societies have shipped their youth off to war, fully expecting them to return home the same, to pick up where they left off, to carry on and to "fit in". Though this extraordinary book focuses on the uniqueness of war and PTSD, the disorder is also associated with other large-scale traumas like natural disasters and personal traumas like rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence. Although the severity of the veteran's trauma, and therefore the effects of that trauma vary from home to home, certainly one principle universally applies: Young people who see or participate in the atrocities of combat do not come out of the experience unscathed. This unique book brings their plight home.

Download or read book Tears of a Warrior written by Anthony & Janet Seahorn and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author writes from his experience as a young army officer in Vietnam who served with the Dauntless Black Lions of the 1st Infantry Division. His spouse and co-author describes her perspective as a wife and mother who has lived the past thirty years with a veteran who suffers from the physical, and more specifically, the mental scars of combat. You will become familiar with how PTSD affects the veterans and their families and explore strategies for living with PTSD.

Download or read book The Wounded Warrior s Wife written by Hannah Conway and published by Olivia Kimbrell Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battles Raging Within Are The Ones You Must Fight To Win WHITLEIGH CROMWELL dreamt of a happily ever after with her newlywed soldier husband. COLLIER CROMWELL loved God, his wife, and his country, though military life exacted a demanding toll. An unexpected deployment during the height of war sends Collier away for yet another year. Their lives tumble down a path marked with struggle, and fatalities. Burdened with unseen emotional wounds and crippled faith, Collier's homecoming only increases their trials. The angry, defeated hermit at Whitleigh's side barely resembles the loving, faithful hero she married two years earlier. Concerned about possible career repercussions, admitting his need for help proves difficult for Collier and his behavior worsens. Angry outbursts — and his cold, callous nature — isn't all that provokes Whitleigh to pack her bags. Collier seeks solace for his private suffering in the worst possible place leaving Whitleigh to walk away from shattered pieces of broken trust. Will Collier seek the healing he desperately needs in time to save their marriage, or is it over? Are there wounds too deep, marriages too broken, and lives so far gone they fall beyond even God's ability to restore?

Download or read book Hope for the Warrior Family written by Andrew Edwin Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warriors are taught how to deploy, but they are not trained to come home. This book outlines practical steps families-- and warriors-- can take to overcome the effects of PTSD, Moral Injury, and more.

Download or read book The Soul of My Soldier written by Abigail B Calkin and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “beautifully written, deeply honest” memoir of a marriage shaped by war and PTSD (Abigail Thomas, author of A Three Dog Life). After forty-five years of marriage, celebrated author and poet Abigail B. Calkin explores the relationship she has with her husband, who served three tours of duty in two different wars. Raw, riveting, and engaging, Calkin recounts how war and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) shaped their marriage and family. Told in prose and poetry, The Soul of My Soldier is a vivid exploration of the extended and significant impact war has on loved ones, and how war affects deployed military personnel far beyond their tour of duty. “When the guns fall silent and troops return home, soldiers carry with them an emotional mine field . . . The Soul of My Soldier reveals the tender attentiveness required to survive and heal.” —Hank Lentfer, author of Faith of Cranes

Download or read book The Global Warrior and Ptsd written by Chuck Dean and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-03-31 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Warrior and PTSD is a book that helps military people and veterans understand what post-traumatic stress disorder is, and why soldiers return home different than when they left home to fight in a war. It depicts small vignettes of warriors from several countries in the world and how it affected them.

Download or read book Wounded Warrior Wounded Home written by Marshele Carter and published by Revell. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every wounded warrior, there is a wounded home--an immediate and extended family and community impacted by their loved one's war experiences. Every day service members are returning from combat deployments to their families. And every day war comes home with them. When a combat veteran struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or traumatic brain injury (TBI), every member of the family experiences the effects. Spouses, parents, and children must undergo changes on the home front, a process that resembles the phases of grief. Confusion, hurt, anger, guilt, fatigue, and fear lie behind their brave smiles and squared shoulders. Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home gives hurting families a look inside the minds and hearts of wounded warriors and guides them in developing their own personal plan for physical, emotional, and spiritual wholeness in the wake of war. The authors, one the wife of a career US Navy SEAL and the other a clinical psychologist and Vietnam veteran, speak from their own experiences of living with PTSD and TBI. They also share insights from dozens of families and careful research, offering readers a hope-filled way forward.

Download or read book PTSD UNTREATED written by Kenny Harrington and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How do you make the transition from bullets and blood on the battlefieldto supermarkets, sidewalks, and Sunday school?"-- Kenny HarringtonWithin these pages is a very personal story of the face of PTSD as seen in the life of a WWII Marine veteran. The book is a sensitive and anguishing unveiling of a soldier returning home from combat, and his personal struggle adjusting to the routines of everyday living. The writing is an effort to show how PTSD, when untreated, leaves its indelible mark on one soldier and his family. My father was a wounded veteran who encountered an unsuspecting enemy when he arrived back on American soil. This was an enemy like none he had confronted on the battlefield, an invisible enemy that tore at his soul. I hope my experience, as the son of that wounded warrior, will provide encouragement and direction to those who may be struggling with the very real and painful injury of PTSD.Endorsement As a Viet Nam Veteran, who served with 1st Marine Division, and suffered the effects of untreated PTSD for over thirty years, I found "PTSD UNTREATED-One Family's Story" to be a valuable tool that brings understanding and healing. It comes with a fresh perspective that brings clarity to the one suffering with PTSD, as well as the effect it has on those in relationship with them. Most importantly, the book delivers hope and action steps toward healing.Phil CarneySenior Pastor, Pendleton First, Pendleton, Oregon