Ramjet: My Secret Life with PTSD

RAMJET Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, affects millions of people worldwide, people who struggle to piece together lives after war, catastrophe and other traumas. Often, they struggle alone. RAMJET is a valuable resource to others who are suffering the effects of PTSD, and the families and professionals who strive to understand it. The autobiographical book offers the author's deeply personal account of his own experiences in the Vietnam War, the tattered life afterward, PTSD diagnosis, and his long battle to recover. Others with PTSD, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and other mental health professionals, as well as family members and friends of those with PTSD will gain invaluable and intriguing insight into the condition from someone who crawled through the morass of PTSD and survived to tell this story.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 362 pages

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