This post contains affiliate links and book recommendations based on this topic. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental health disorder that afflicts about 24 million Americans at any given time (National Institute of Health). Post-traumatic stress occurs, in short, when traumatic events are re-experienced due to external triggers, nightmares and/or reoccurring thoughts. Due to the […]
Coping with PTSD
*No Spoilers I swear!!!* I watched American Sniper this weekend and wondered how they would portray trauma. Based on the trailer I knew this was a true story of a U.S. Navy S.E.A.L. who fought in the Middle East. The director, in my opinion, did a brilliant job of focusing on this soldier’s facial […]
