Greetings, readers! Now that Amazon has disabled its popular ebook lending feature, we're more committed than ever to helping you find the best ways to borrow FREE or save big on the Kindle books that you want to read. Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime Reading offer members free reading access to over 1 million titles, including Kindle books, magazines, and audiobooks. Beginning soon, each day in this space we will feature "Today's FREEbies and Top Deals for Our Favorite Readers" to share top 5-star titles that are available for KU and Prime members to read FREE, plus a link to a 30-day FREE trial for Kindle Unlimited!

Lendle

Lendle is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associates participant, we earn small amounts from qualifying purchases on the Amazon sites.
The PTSD Story - Dr. Samuel Krakow

The PTSD Story

Dr. Samuel Krakow
The Krakow Press, LLC , English

The contents of this book, such as text, graphics, images, and other material contained therein (\"Content\") are for informational purposes only. The Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read in this book. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately.

Reliance on any information provided in this book is solely at your own risk. The Content is provided on an \"as is\" basis.

Dr. Krakow does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, physicians, products, procedures, opinions, Web sites that this book links to, or other information that may be mentioned in this book. Reliance on any information provided by Dr. Krakow, Ira Krakow, or others associated with the production of this book, is solely at your own risk.

This book may contain health- or medical-related materials that are sexually, graphically explicit, or portray parts of the human body. If you find these materials offensive, you may not want to read this book. The Content is provided on an \"as is\" basis.

With the end of the Iraq War and the continuing drawdown of military forces from Afghanistan, various medical after-effects of these conflicts are being seen at home. Military personnel face issues that have been seen in other conflicts, especially increased risk of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), suicide risk, substance abuse, and depression. However, a new disorder is being highlighted with greater frequency, the problem of traumatic brain injury. This book seeks to educate healthcare providers and soldiers, and their loved ones, about these topics, and what can be done to help.

This introduction is intended as a brief overview of the medical issues returning soldiers face returning from Iraq and other war zones. I include the Wikipedia articles on:

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

• Psychological Resilience (factors that help a person overcome a stressful environment)

• Benefits for US Veterans With PTSD, including how to show that you have PTSD

• Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)

• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

• Traumatic Memories

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Exposure Therapy

formatted for the Kindle, with all hyperlinks and images preserved, so that you can explore these serious conditions, and ways to overcome them, in more depth.

The cover image, Regions of the brain affected by PTSD and stress, originated at the National Institutes of Health. The original is at:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-research-fact-sheet/index.shtml

The image was uploaded to Wikipedia on March 13, 2010, and is located at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PTSD_stress_brain.gif

with the following licensing:

This image is a work of the National Institutes of Health, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

Genres for this book