I couldn’t distinguish the symptoms from my heart. It was polarizing to be told there was a diagnosis for the behaviors I felt justified in having. And then, I knew some part of my disease was spiritual or inherited. Heart Berries, p 70 It’s August and Terese Marie Mailhot has got me thinking about generational … Continue reading PTSD Bookclub: Introducing *Heart Berries*
This final week of August, #PTSDBookclub discusses the final third of Mac McClelland’s Irritable Hearts, the power of work, and PTSD as a chronic and regularly fatal disease. Continue reading Irritable Hearts, Pt 3: Find the Thing You Won’t Give Up.
This week in #PTSDBookclub, we discuss the 2nd third of Mac McClelland’s Irritable Hearts, the atrocity hierarchy, and clarify the perplexing language of PTSD. Continue reading Irritable Hearts, Pt. 2: The Perplexing Language of PTSD
This week, we begin discussions of Mac McClelland’s memoir, *Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story.* Continue reading PTSD Bookclub: Introducing *Irritable Hearts*
On the Fourth of July, we explore “explosive” and “erosive” trauma through the writing of Maggie O’Farrell and Bat Barker. Continue reading Regeneration, Pt 4: Explosive and Erosive Trauma
A discussion of masculinity, PTSD, and care in Pat Barker’s wonderful novel, Regeneration. Continue reading Regeneration, Part 3: The Male Mothers of Trauma
An introduction to Regeneration, a novel that follows soldiers, doctors, and their friends and family through shared experiences at Craiglockhart, a military psychiatric hospital in Edinburgh that treated officers for shell-shock and neurasthenia during World War I. Continue reading PTSD Bookclub: Introducing *Regeneration*
In our final discussion of Slaughterhouse-Five, the #PTSDBookclub explores the difference between care and caregiving. Continue reading Slaughterhouse-Five, Part 3: The Blind Innkeeper
In PTSD as in Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, you enter “trauma time.” It turns out time travel is more stressful than you might think. Continue reading Slaughterhouse-Five, Part 1: Trauma Time*
