Before survivors of traumatic events can stop feeling guilty, they often need to focus on the guilt they're experiencing and the problems it has caused. If youire wrestling with guilt feelings after experiencing a traumatic event, Survivor Guilt will help you to resolve them by encouraging you to examine them from the wider context of all the possible stresses caused by the experience. Use the books evaluations to honestly assess your role in the event. Learn to cope with survival guilt even when it is the result of difficult moral dilemmas.

Survivor Guilt

Self-Help

Aphrodite Matsakis

Death & Grief

New Harbinger Pubns Inc

In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Matsakis explains that post-traumatic stress disorder affects not just soldiers, but also suruvivors of many other types of trauma including: <ul>
<li>crime</li> <li>vehicular accidents</li> <li>rape</li> <li>family violence</li> <li>sexual abuse</li> <li>natural catastrophes</li> </ul>
I Can’t Get Over It directly addresses survivors of trauma. It explains the nature of PTSD and describes the healing process. This book will help you: <ul>
<li>Find out whether you have PTSD</li> <li>Cope with post-traumatic anger, grief, and survivor guilt</li> <li>Recognize related problems such as depression, substance abuse , compulsive behavior and low self-esteem</li> <li>Identify “triggers” that set off flashbacks, anxiety attacks, and other symptoms</li> <li>Relieve wounding caused by others’ blaming and insensitivity Gain a sense of empowerment and hope for the future</li> </ul>

I Can't Get over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

To write about the combat veteran is to write about fortitude, dedication and selflessness, and about experiences unfathomable to those who have never known the indescribable horrors of war. To write about you the veteran s spouse or partner is to write about another kind of loyalty and perseverance and yet another kind of pain and sadness. The trauma of war can affect not only the warriors, but their partners and children as well. Often it is you, the veteran s partner, who helps sustain the veteran during his or her depressions, anxiety attacks, and post-traumatic reactions. It may also be you, and perhaps you alone, who has sustained your veteran s will to live during his or her most anguished moments. Unfortunately, some veterans vent their anger (at themselves or at others whom they felt betrayed them) on the people they love and who love them the most their partners and children. The purpose of this book is to help you (and your veteran) better understand combat trauma and its possible effects on intimate relationships and family life and to guide you to resources that can help strengthen every member of your family. The beginning chapters provide basic information about combat trauma and how it can lead to depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other forms of emotional pain. The remaining chapters focus on some of the most common problems confronting families of combat veterans: emotional numbing, sexual difficulties, anger, and guilt. There are also chapters on family violence, children, women veterans, and military couples and sections on how to cope with anger and depression, how to find helpful organizations and books, and how to communicate effectively on difficult issues. In addition to describing the tensions that can result from combat trauma, this book emphasizes the many ways a veteran s war experiences can help enrich individual family members and the family as a whole. Just as one part of your family cannot suffer without that suf

Back from the Front: Combat Trauma, Love, and the Family

Sidran Press

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