The Soldier's Guide to PTSD: A No-Sh*t Guide to Reclaiming Your Life

Your life is at stake, my friend, and I'm not going to beat around the bush with fancy euphemisms and positive affirmations. I know how serious PTSD is.

We’re going to touch on all the symptoms invading your day-to-day life.

• Trauma and Triggers
• Flashbacks and Hallucinations
• Substance Abuse and Alcoholism
• Irritable and Angry Outbursts
• Shame, Self-Loathing, and Self-Destructive Behavior
• Avoidance and Doom Scrolling
• Addictive Behavior

Once we've shined a light on how PTSD and Moral Injury have disrupted your life, we're going to cover the top clinically proven, evidence-based treatment options to get you on the road to recovery.

This book is your no BS guide. It contains an overview of the tasks and practical tools and techniques for recovering from trauma. It also provides answers and understanding for those who do not have PTSD and want to help a loved one who does.

But, before we get started, we have to have an honest conversation with ourselves. We have to be willing to take that first step.

Do you believe change is possible?

Do you want to change?

Many people with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder often feel they don't deserve to get better. Trauma lives in a part of the brain that resists rational thought, so we get stuck in toxic shame.

Let me tell you a little secret. You Deserve to heal!

Keep reading. I’m going to teach you everything I wish I knew when I started my recovery from PTSD and Moral Injury.

The Soldier’s Guide to PTSD does not waste time cutting through the bull and getting down to brass tacks. Told in the voice of a Soldier-turned-therapist, it is a call to arms, offering facts, empathy, and direction, while urging Service Members to seek the right therapy, helping family members to understand the battlefield, and connecting civilians with the Warrior culture.

As a therapist, Virginia Cruse became frustrated with the rumors her clients heard about PTSD that kept them from getting better. Why did so many of them believe PTSD couldn’t be treated? Why did so many feel shame for non-combat related PTSD? Why did some believe they deserved to have PTSD, while others felt they didn’t deserve to get better?

All the rumors, worthless information, and toxic shaming hit home hard with Cruse, who herself struggled with her own debilitating PTSD.No one had taken the time to explain PTSD and Moral Injury to Service Members in a way that made sense.

Because of that Virginia Cruse has made it her mission to get the right information out there so people can gain access to the help they need.

This is it. Your call to arms; offering the facts, empathy, and direction.

Other books in the PTSD Recovery Series

• The Soldier's Guide to PTSD – A No Shit Guide Military-Focused Guide for PTSD and Moral Injury (Explicit Language Warning)
• The Soldier's PTSD Workbook – Work through the ways PTSD has disrupted your life (Explicit Language Warning)

• Acknowledge and Heal – A Women-Focused Guide To Understanding PTSD
• Acknowledge and Heal PTSD Workbook – Work through the ways PTSD has disrupted your life
• Acknowledge and Heal PTSD Journal – 365 days of prompts and exercises

• The PTSD Field Manual – A Gentle Military-Focused Guide for PTSD and Moral Injury
• The PTSD Field Journal – 365 days of prompts and exercises