Vietnam Wives: Facing the Challenges of Life With Veterans Suffering Post-Traumatic Stress

I am officially an "expert" in combat PTSD with all sorts of fancy letters after my name, and I can say that Aphrodite Matsakis's VIETNAM WIVES and Patience Mason's RECOVERING FROM THE WAR [also available from Amazon.com] do more good than a planeload of folks like me. Nobody should have to go through it alone--not the veteran, not his or her spouse, not their children, parents, friends, employers, therapists. Healing (and protection against secondary traumatic stress) happens only in community--at least that's what I conclude from 11 years working with veterans. Both of these books are useful to not only their main audience, the veteran's spouse, but to veterans themselves and anyone else who wants to make their hearts wiser and their understanding deeper. I recommend these books frequently, and for years they were hard to find.

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Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D. is a psychiatrist whose only patients are Vietnam combat veterans in the Boston VA Outpatient Clinic. He is author of _Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character_ (available from Amazon.com)

This book is not just for Vietnam wives, but the veteran, his family and anyone who wants to be informed about PTSD. It examines how the disorder is developed and how it affects the victim and everyone around him/her. The goal is to gain insight about how PTSD can be recognized, treated and ultimately lived with in a manageable state. It is clearly written and can be understood by non-professional people.

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This book has stories that I personally have never even fathomed. What an eye opener I read this with an open heart, weeping the whole time.

I am very glad that I had read Nam Vet first because without some background this book can be a bit much. I recommend this book AFTER reading something more general like Nam Vet and An Operator's Manuel for Combat PTSD. All these books show the reader a world that the average person is just not aware of, teaches compassion and shows us solutions.

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This book has helped me understand my mother bettershe was a WW II Korea and Vietnam wife....should have read it sooner ...Also helps me understand my, unfortunately, "Vietnam" ex-wife a little better too. Worth the read for anyone wanting to understand the stress on those warriors left behind.

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If you have a husband or boyfriend--even a father, son or brother--who seems unable to "get it together" in his post-Vietnam life, this book can help you at least begin to understand and identify the underlying reasons for his unreasonable and anti-social behavior. The isolation you may have felt and that you even may have to live with is explained in clear and understandable detail. There are many anecdotal stories that, taken together, begin to build a picture in your mind about your particular situation. Doing so aids in your own ability to both accept certain behaviors and learn to use coping techniques with your spouse that may make life more bearable. Certainly this book opened my eyes to the realities of the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) condition, helped me realize that certain problems were actually controllable, and did not mean the end of the world had arrived. Vietnam Wives: Facing the Challenges of Life With Veterans Suffering Post-Traumatic Stress

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