Post Traumatic Stress and Disorderly is one man’s story growing up
in Liverpool UK and his fight with the mental health condition PTSD,
manifested by multiple horrific ordeals. Symptoms first surfaced as a
young teenager after being targeted by the notorious Liverpool
Bogeyman during the eighties, stalked and bullied until a violent
confrontation was the only way out of the harrowing situation, thus
becoming the catalyst for the debilitating mental state. His ordeal
included witnessing three murders (including two in a double gangland
execution of friends in his family run health club in the nineties)
the investigation, the suspicion of his involvement by the police, the
court cases as a pivotal witness, the wearing of a bullet proof vest
and self-prescribed remedies of cocaine and alcohol to escape the
torturing images embedded into his now fragile mindset. These remedies
were just as destructive, helping the demise to an already crumbling
psyche. This book is a brutally honest account of one man’s failings
to some degree successes in his elusive search for a more stable peace
of mind. But it didn’t stop there. Bolstering the attacks of PTSD,
he experienced a car bomb attack to kill and destroy, a near psychotic
encounter with a global superstar, incarceration to HMP Liverpool, a
near fatal stabbing on a family holiday, right up to the experiences
of losing both parents within fifteen months of each other, one to the
pandemic in 2020, and the tragic premature loss of his oldest brother
shortly after. This is an account of creating antidotes for better
mental health, finally accumulating into a formula of stability that
the mental health professionals failed to provide. Like the ups and
downs of a vast mountain range Post Traumatic Stress and Disorderly
will take you down to the caverns of despair, soaring to the peaks of
personal achievement, in a war the author has had with himself.
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ISBN
9781398453821
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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