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Post-Traumatic Gazette

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:18.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Corporation
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
URL: 

http://www.patiencepress.com

Author: 
Patience Mason, Patience Press
Excerpt: 

My husband's (Robert Mason) Vietnam memoirs, Chickenhawk and Chickenhawk: Back In The World and my book, Recovering from the War, describe how we lived with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder when it didn't have a name and wasn't supposed to exist. When Bob came back from his tour as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam (1st Cav, ‘65-’66), problems developed. We lived with PTSD for 14 years during which I felt there was something wrong with me because I couldn't make him happy. He thought he was crazy. We did not associate any of it with Vietnam.

Annotation: 

This site acts as a newsletter providing a healing perspective for all trauma survivors, their families, friends and therapists. Author's husband was a Vietnam veteran. Besides the newletter itself, there is not a lot of information on the site yet, though more is coming. This site could serve as a resource for those interested in personal accounts and information concerning the changing perception and treatment of veterans and trauma survivors.

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