I am a veteran of the Falklands conflict of 1982 who served in the army for a period of twelve years from 1980-1992. three of which were served with the Special Air Service. This book is about my personal battle with PTSD, depression and perfectionism (My Black Dog). It chronicles how my illness developed over number of years, my nightmares, my enlightening stay in in mental institution, how it ruined my family life, almost destroyed me and how PTSD...

"A searing memoir of reckoning and healing from an acclaimed journalist and former This American Life producer investigating the little-understood science behind Complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as a radio producer at This American Life and had won an Emmy. But behind her office door she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk. After years of questioning...

"From New York Times bestselling author Agnete Friis comes the chilling story of a young mother who will do whatever it takes to protect her son. Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since she was seven years old, the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn't remember anything about that night or her childhood before it--but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for hours--sometimes days--at...

In this career-defining work, Browning explores the breaking point every mind has after finding her own limit during a gauntlet of traumatic events.

Describes how Rick Sylvester, after enduring a childhood of poverty and abuse, struggled through adulthood until he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and shares how he was able to overcome the odds to live a rewarding life.

The former Army intelligence officer and politician discusses his decade-long battle with depression and PTSD from his service in Afghanistan and how his family supported him through the challenging treatments that helped him to heal.

Harper Jennings has survived the Iraq war, her husband Hank's brain injury, a drug conspiracy, and a gang of murderous artefact smugglers. But when she starts to suspect her mother's boyfriend might be hiding something, soon even her own home no longer seems a place of safety.

From the streets of South Los Angeles to the elite homicide bureau, former sheriff's detective Danny R. Smith saw some of L.A.'s darkest hours: a crack cocaine epidemic, unprecedented gang warfare, a spike in homicides that stunned the nation, the Rodney King riots. A beating left him unconscious. Only the miraculous malfunction of a killer's automatic weapon saved his life. But it was the hundreds of deaths and innumerable tragedies-murdered colleagues,...

When Iraqi war vet Harper Jennings' staunchest rival at Cornell's archaeology department turns up on her doorstep, babbling about seeing a Pre-Columbian shape-shifter, Harper doesn't know what to think. But then Zina is killed, and the more contact Harper has with the relics, the more her life starts going wrong.