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The PTSD Breakthrough
The first book about PTSD to provide a fully integrated approach to healing post traumatic stress disorder based on scientific, psychological, spiritual, and biological solutions. PTSD is not just a problem for our soldiers and their families alone. PTSD is considered an anxiety reaction to trauma of any kind. It can truly happen to anyone. PTSD was previously treated as a psychiatric disorder only, but new scientific research shows that biological factors play just as important a role, and it's so much more than simply healing anxiety and depression. He has developed a program for PTSD that provides clear, action-oriented steps based in science that you can take to rid yourself or a loved one of the demons of PTSD. Furthermore, many of the healing approaches can be done in the comfort of your home and are self-directed. Trauma recovery and its impact on mental health are critical to anyone suffering from PTSD, including veterans and those suffering from childhood trauma. And the research uncovered by Dr. Lawlis and his colleagues and the treatment plan he presents in this book offer new hope for those who are afflicted. Praise for The PTSD Breakthrough : "Dr. Lawlis has done it again! His latest book offers new hope for PTSD sufferers and their families with approaches that can be used at home where the real problems occur and persist. There is a great deal of insight, strategy, and inspiration for anyone who is dealing with these horrific challenges toward the satisfied life they deserve. A must-read for every member of a family touched by PTSD." ―Dr. Phil "Dr. Frank Lawlis, one of the most gifted and prolific contributors in modern psychology, delivers in The PTSD Breakthrough a highly readable, scientifically grounded, balanced approach to PTSD, zeroing in on the damaging effects of trauma to the brain psyche, and spirit." ―John Chibran, PhD, ThD, Harvard Medical School, and the author of What's Love Got to Do with Talking with Your Kids About Sex "As a nurse educator, coach, author, and consultant, Dr. Frank Lawlis's timely book on PTSD truly addresses the deep-rooted problem beneath the symptoms and syndrome. His innovative and practical guidelines allow the individual to once again achieve high-level wellness with new penetrating insights and compassion for self in the healing journey." ―Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN; International Co-Director, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health; Co-Director, International Nurse Coach Association; Author of Holistic A Handbook for Practice (5th ed.) and Florence Mystic, Visionary, Healer "Much is being written about post-traumatic stress disorder. But if you want a book that looks at the disorder from a new perspective, and explains it and its treatment in a way that both patient and practitioner can understand, this is the book for you." ―John Roitzsch, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, VA Medical Center
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First published September 1, 2010
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Frank Lawlis
27 books14 followersDr. Lawlis has focused on clinical and research methods of the mind-body relationship since 1968 when he received his Ph.D. in Psychology with an emphasis in medical psychology and rehabilitation. He was awarded the Diplomate (A.B.P.P.) in both Counseling Psychology and Clinical Psychology. He also received the status of Fellow from the American Psychological Association for his scientific contributions to the field of clinical psychology and behavioral medicine, as well as other awards for his pioneering research in this field.
Most recently Dr. Lawlis has taken on the exciting project to update the alcohol and drug dependency treatment with applications for brain plasticity. He has been assigned this task by Origins Recovery Center in South Padre Island, Texas, as Director of Psychology and Brain Plasticity. Based on consistent research which shows that addicts get better the longer they stay in treatment, regardless of what treatment they receive, lays support that the brain healing time is critical, so his focus is on increasing the healing potential of the healing through such opportunities as hyperbaric chambers, vitamin and anti-inflammatory approaches, breathing patterns, neuron-biofeedback, imagery, exercises, and sonic stimulation with music. He has already produced several CDs of sonic rhythms consistent with his work in PTSD that are available specific to this regard, along with applications from biofeedback, specific brain stimulation and musical stimulations. These models have been discussed in his book, Retrainng the Brain.
Having served on five prestigious medical school faculties in the Departments of Psychiatry, Orthopedic Surgery, and Rehabilitation Medicine and five graduate psychology faculties, he has blazed new studies and approaches in the care of patients with chronic and acute pain, cancer and psychosomatic problems. The Medical Schools he served were New York Medical Center (1967-68), Texas Tech Medical School (1973-75), Universities of Texas Health Center (UTHC) at San Antonio (1975-76), UTHC at Dallas (1979-89) and Stanford Medical School (1991-93).
Dr. Lawlis has authored and co-authored more than 100 articles and chapters as well as four textbooks; Imagery and Disease (IPAT: Champaign, Ill., 1984), Bridges of the Bodymind (IPAT, 1980), Transpersonal Medicine (Shambhala Publ., Boston, 1996), The Mosby Textbook on Alternative Medicine (Mosby, 2001), The ADD Answer, The IQ Answer, Mending The Broken Bond, The Stress Answer, The Brain Power Cookbook, The Autism Answer and PTSD Breakthroughs.
In addition to his literature, Dr. Lawlis has published audio works available at MindBodySeries. Dr. Lawlis has developed programs for Anxiety, PTSD, Depression, Sleep, ADD/ADHD and Creativity and demonstrated them on the Dr. Phil Show.
Dr. Frank Lawlis cofounded the Lawlis and Peavey PsychoNeuroPlasticity Center in Lewisville Texas as a new innovation for psychological assessment wherein an individual would have a thorough medical-psychological-neurological-sociological-family dynamics evaluations during the same week. With the intensive focus approach, the multilayers of interactions can be addressed quickly and with less frustration and discouragement. Moreover, there would be a specific plan to redevelop brain functions and coordinate their sequencing such that even major challenges could be overcome within a quicker time frame. Through this process great steps have been taken to understand an individual's problems and to address all the issues during a finite time period.
Presently, Dr. Lawlis is serving a projectr called "Camp Better America" as an adviser and instructor. The mission of the program is to serve soldiers and their families as they reenter society from war and help in adjustment issues. The program has been supported by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Department of Defense.
Dr. Frank Lawlis has been Chief Content and Oversite Adviser as well as Chairman of the Dr. Phil
Most recently Dr. Lawlis has taken on the exciting project to update the alcohol and drug dependency treatment with applications for brain plasticity. He has been assigned this task by Origins Recovery Center in South Padre Island, Texas, as Director of Psychology and Brain Plasticity. Based on consistent research which shows that addicts get better the longer they stay in treatment, regardless of what treatment they receive, lays support that the brain healing time is critical, so his focus is on increasing the healing potential of the healing through such opportunities as hyperbaric chambers, vitamin and anti-inflammatory approaches, breathing patterns, neuron-biofeedback, imagery, exercises, and sonic stimulation with music. He has already produced several CDs of sonic rhythms consistent with his work in PTSD that are available specific to this regard, along with applications from biofeedback, specific brain stimulation and musical stimulations. These models have been discussed in his book, Retrainng the Brain.
Having served on five prestigious medical school faculties in the Departments of Psychiatry, Orthopedic Surgery, and Rehabilitation Medicine and five graduate psychology faculties, he has blazed new studies and approaches in the care of patients with chronic and acute pain, cancer and psychosomatic problems. The Medical Schools he served were New York Medical Center (1967-68), Texas Tech Medical School (1973-75), Universities of Texas Health Center (UTHC) at San Antonio (1975-76), UTHC at Dallas (1979-89) and Stanford Medical School (1991-93).
Dr. Lawlis has authored and co-authored more than 100 articles and chapters as well as four textbooks; Imagery and Disease (IPAT: Champaign, Ill., 1984), Bridges of the Bodymind (IPAT, 1980), Transpersonal Medicine (Shambhala Publ., Boston, 1996), The Mosby Textbook on Alternative Medicine (Mosby, 2001), The ADD Answer, The IQ Answer, Mending The Broken Bond, The Stress Answer, The Brain Power Cookbook, The Autism Answer and PTSD Breakthroughs.
In addition to his literature, Dr. Lawlis has published audio works available at MindBodySeries. Dr. Lawlis has developed programs for Anxiety, PTSD, Depression, Sleep, ADD/ADHD and Creativity and demonstrated them on the Dr. Phil Show.
Dr. Frank Lawlis cofounded the Lawlis and Peavey PsychoNeuroPlasticity Center in Lewisville Texas as a new innovation for psychological assessment wherein an individual would have a thorough medical-psychological-neurological-sociological-family dynamics evaluations during the same week. With the intensive focus approach, the multilayers of interactions can be addressed quickly and with less frustration and discouragement. Moreover, there would be a specific plan to redevelop brain functions and coordinate their sequencing such that even major challenges could be overcome within a quicker time frame. Through this process great steps have been taken to understand an individual's problems and to address all the issues during a finite time period.
Presently, Dr. Lawlis is serving a projectr called "Camp Better America" as an adviser and instructor. The mission of the program is to serve soldiers and their families as they reenter society from war and help in adjustment issues. The program has been supported by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Department of Defense.
Dr. Frank Lawlis has been Chief Content and Oversite Adviser as well as Chairman of the Dr. Phil
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February 22, 2011
I would like to start out with explaining that I am not a psychologist or even a student in the field... yet. However, I have suffered from PTSD since I was 14 years old and am currently doing independent research on various treatment methods of PTSD and many types of trauma in the hopes of one day earning my degree in psychology. That being said, I must also admit that I am not a fan of Dr. Phil McGraw, nor do I have any sort of appreciation or respect for his methods. The very fact that the author of this book, Dr. Frank Lawlis, works as an adviser on Dr. Phil's show, is cause enough for skepticism.
My biggest complaint about this book is how Lawlis does not interject with any sources or use names of case studies or even state any data. How does he back-up his methods? By merely stating that it "has been proven by science". Okay then... Quite bluntly, if someone who is a doctor is not able to provide source material and statistical information in his text at all I have extreme suspicions about his reasons for writing the book and his experience on the subject. (There is a resource section in the back of the book, but, again, there's no mention of these resources or data in the text itself.)
My second complaint is that this book does not read at all as if it were written to treat PTSD. The biggest points he makes is that someone who suffers from PTSD needs plenty of sleep, fresh air, and a healthy, vitamin-enriched diet. A wee bit obvious, don't you think? The introductory chapters are nothing more than overly informed methods of treating anxiety, nightmares, and stress. As I neared the end of his description of numerous vitamins and dietary supplements, I seriously considered giving up on this book (something I never do) but persisted on hoping for a dramatic upswing in regards to his supposed "revolutionary, science-based approach to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder recovery".
I can't say I was disappointed by the continuation of his constant "proven by science" remarks or lack of description when he uses a mindfulness-based stress reduction technique (using a specific type of sound frequency and rhythm over headphones... also known as biofeedback) on a traumatized soldier... After which he never explains what happened in that little story beyond whipping out the headphones and giving them to the soldier. For example, where he learned the technique or even what it's called or how professionals generally use it on patient, these things are never mentioned. To be quite blunt once again, this is a serious oversight in a book about treating PTSD... To bring up a treatment method and not explain anything about it, is extremely unprofessional. Thankfully, the book was just about finished at this point so I didn't have to suffer through his "revolution" for too long.
Furthermore, something that irritates me about Lawlis and his colleague, Dr. Phil is that they both claim to be experts in various fields that have little to nothing in common with each other. At the beginning of most chapters, Lawlis starts out with explaining how he's working in a new field in a new location. I don't believe that anyone, especially a psychologist, should publish a book, let alone go on national television, when they cannot decide what their focus is on. To write a book or have a television show, you are saying to your audience that you are an expert, that you know what you're talking about.
On Lawlis' website, in his biography, it says that he earned his Ph.D in psychology with an emphasis in medical psychology and rehabilitation. He's working on a project regarding alcohol and drug dependency treatment and has worked with patients who have chronic and acute pain, cancer and psychosomatic problems. His list of achievements continue on but none of them have to do with experience treating trauma aside from his recent work on a project entitled "Camp Better America as an adviser and instructor", which works with soldiers and their families on how to reintroduce those coming back from war to society.
I'm not saying he's not distinguished in the field, however, I am saying that he doesn't know enough about trauma or PTSD to write a book about treating it. Trauma, if you've ever experienced it or spent numerous hours talking to victims of trauma or sufferers of PTSD is a nightmare and a tragedy. It's horror. Lawlis mentions in this book that he's angry about the obstacles soldiers returning from war have to face when they come home, where they feel like strangers amidst their family and tortured in their own bodies, but the methods he mentions barely even scratch the surface of how a psychologist would treat someone in that position, let alone victims of rape, molestation, physical torture and abuse, mental abuse, early attachment disruption, natural disasters, grief, etcetera.
Honestly, I found this book to be insulting to those who have been traumatized and live with PTSD. Healing from trauma is not an easy task. It's not as simple as sleeping properly, exercising, and eating healthily and for a psychologist to think that it's that simple is a travesty. This book is embarrassing to those brave, strong psychologists who take on trauma victims and PTSD sufferers as clients and spend months to years earning their trust, helping heal them of their symptoms and teaching them methods of dealing with life on an hourly and daily basis.
If you're looking for a well-written, informed and organized book on methods of treating trauma and PTSD, I highly recommend The Trauma Treatment Handbook: Protocols Across the Spectrum by Robin Shapiro. It's an excellent overview and written in such a way that's easy enough for anyone to understand.
My biggest complaint about this book is how Lawlis does not interject with any sources or use names of case studies or even state any data. How does he back-up his methods? By merely stating that it "has been proven by science". Okay then... Quite bluntly, if someone who is a doctor is not able to provide source material and statistical information in his text at all I have extreme suspicions about his reasons for writing the book and his experience on the subject. (There is a resource section in the back of the book, but, again, there's no mention of these resources or data in the text itself.)
My second complaint is that this book does not read at all as if it were written to treat PTSD. The biggest points he makes is that someone who suffers from PTSD needs plenty of sleep, fresh air, and a healthy, vitamin-enriched diet. A wee bit obvious, don't you think? The introductory chapters are nothing more than overly informed methods of treating anxiety, nightmares, and stress. As I neared the end of his description of numerous vitamins and dietary supplements, I seriously considered giving up on this book (something I never do) but persisted on hoping for a dramatic upswing in regards to his supposed "revolutionary, science-based approach to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder recovery".
I can't say I was disappointed by the continuation of his constant "proven by science" remarks or lack of description when he uses a mindfulness-based stress reduction technique (using a specific type of sound frequency and rhythm over headphones... also known as biofeedback) on a traumatized soldier... After which he never explains what happened in that little story beyond whipping out the headphones and giving them to the soldier. For example, where he learned the technique or even what it's called or how professionals generally use it on patient, these things are never mentioned. To be quite blunt once again, this is a serious oversight in a book about treating PTSD... To bring up a treatment method and not explain anything about it, is extremely unprofessional. Thankfully, the book was just about finished at this point so I didn't have to suffer through his "revolution" for too long.
Furthermore, something that irritates me about Lawlis and his colleague, Dr. Phil is that they both claim to be experts in various fields that have little to nothing in common with each other. At the beginning of most chapters, Lawlis starts out with explaining how he's working in a new field in a new location. I don't believe that anyone, especially a psychologist, should publish a book, let alone go on national television, when they cannot decide what their focus is on. To write a book or have a television show, you are saying to your audience that you are an expert, that you know what you're talking about.
On Lawlis' website, in his biography, it says that he earned his Ph.D in psychology with an emphasis in medical psychology and rehabilitation. He's working on a project regarding alcohol and drug dependency treatment and has worked with patients who have chronic and acute pain, cancer and psychosomatic problems. His list of achievements continue on but none of them have to do with experience treating trauma aside from his recent work on a project entitled "Camp Better America as an adviser and instructor", which works with soldiers and their families on how to reintroduce those coming back from war to society.
I'm not saying he's not distinguished in the field, however, I am saying that he doesn't know enough about trauma or PTSD to write a book about treating it. Trauma, if you've ever experienced it or spent numerous hours talking to victims of trauma or sufferers of PTSD is a nightmare and a tragedy. It's horror. Lawlis mentions in this book that he's angry about the obstacles soldiers returning from war have to face when they come home, where they feel like strangers amidst their family and tortured in their own bodies, but the methods he mentions barely even scratch the surface of how a psychologist would treat someone in that position, let alone victims of rape, molestation, physical torture and abuse, mental abuse, early attachment disruption, natural disasters, grief, etcetera.
Honestly, I found this book to be insulting to those who have been traumatized and live with PTSD. Healing from trauma is not an easy task. It's not as simple as sleeping properly, exercising, and eating healthily and for a psychologist to think that it's that simple is a travesty. This book is embarrassing to those brave, strong psychologists who take on trauma victims and PTSD sufferers as clients and spend months to years earning their trust, helping heal them of their symptoms and teaching them methods of dealing with life on an hourly and daily basis.
If you're looking for a well-written, informed and organized book on methods of treating trauma and PTSD, I highly recommend The Trauma Treatment Handbook: Protocols Across the Spectrum by Robin Shapiro. It's an excellent overview and written in such a way that's easy enough for anyone to understand.
December 2, 2012
So after reading about the new findings in the area of #PTSD in a recent article by Scientific American (http://bit.ly/TCGzHM), I said to myself it's time to better enlighten myself on practicioners' perpective on post-traumatic stress. After all, all I had so far known was that it responds to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) long-term and that there is an 'inoculation' against flashbacks: it's called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) —and playing Tetris is, in fact and a bit surprisingly, close to emulating EMDR (http://huff.to/11jV5uj).
And yet besides the "mechanics" of PTS' management, the sufferer is a miserable human being most of the time. It is also one of the most "unfair" malaises, as PTS is something that was entirely done to you by the others. It's not your fault. And it's something that we as society have very little understanding of.
Though I am a patron at Karolinska Institute's library (where there is a number of heavy resources: http://bit.ly/QXvfe4), I started with a pop-sy book: The PTSD Breakthrough, by Frank Lawlis. It definitely has its crazy moments that undermine the credibility of the entire book (for instance, it recommends oral chelation and coffee enemas; SERIOUSLY?!). And yet on the other hand, it is not as detached and pathway-mechanistic as the usual CBT would be. I found it very good at arguing the theory that in PTS, there is a sort of reparable brain "hardware" damage, whereas usually we tend to see psychological distress as a mix of 1) emotional malfunction (negative self-talk vis-a-vis a crisis), 2) chemical malfunction (the dopamine/serotonin story).
Lawlis gives a gentle introduction into brain's neuroplasticity, and bases his further explanation on it (out of all links in this post, this is the most worthy of attention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropla...). The brain neuroplasticity perspective was the most valuable that the book offered; things like disorientation, loss of memory, under-performing make sense when "misaligned" neurons are taken into account. PTS is, in a way, a massive strike of workers in the Brain Factory (my interpretation, not Lawlis'). Lawlis then follows up with multiple alternatives of receiving help—both from working with therapists but also DIY.
For finals, an excerpt. I think it defines PTS very well (tough-love but hopeful and instructive):
(...) injured and possibly devastated by an event that was perpetrated by some other person, either intentionally or accidentally. And because of that fact you were defined as being a victim. You may be the victim of a war event, a rape, a terrible crash of some sort, or any number of horrible situations no person would choose. This set of events places you in the role of sufferer. You, therefore, have a direct cause you can point to for your damages. And if you cannot find a resolution to these damages yourself, you can take it out on the world, right? No. You instead need to have your internal compass reset to your true north. I realize that you were traumatized in some event that left you vulnerable and at least a little off track from your life plan. And it may not seem fair to ask you to leave that all behind, to have to take on the work of recovery when you didn’t cause the problem in the first place. But when you get to the end of the line, you will find positives in taking on that change, and you are the only one who can do it. (pages 155 – 156).
And yet besides the "mechanics" of PTS' management, the sufferer is a miserable human being most of the time. It is also one of the most "unfair" malaises, as PTS is something that was entirely done to you by the others. It's not your fault. And it's something that we as society have very little understanding of.
Though I am a patron at Karolinska Institute's library (where there is a number of heavy resources: http://bit.ly/QXvfe4), I started with a pop-sy book: The PTSD Breakthrough, by Frank Lawlis. It definitely has its crazy moments that undermine the credibility of the entire book (for instance, it recommends oral chelation and coffee enemas; SERIOUSLY?!). And yet on the other hand, it is not as detached and pathway-mechanistic as the usual CBT would be. I found it very good at arguing the theory that in PTS, there is a sort of reparable brain "hardware" damage, whereas usually we tend to see psychological distress as a mix of 1) emotional malfunction (negative self-talk vis-a-vis a crisis), 2) chemical malfunction (the dopamine/serotonin story).
Lawlis gives a gentle introduction into brain's neuroplasticity, and bases his further explanation on it (out of all links in this post, this is the most worthy of attention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropla...). The brain neuroplasticity perspective was the most valuable that the book offered; things like disorientation, loss of memory, under-performing make sense when "misaligned" neurons are taken into account. PTS is, in a way, a massive strike of workers in the Brain Factory (my interpretation, not Lawlis'). Lawlis then follows up with multiple alternatives of receiving help—both from working with therapists but also DIY.
For finals, an excerpt. I think it defines PTS very well (tough-love but hopeful and instructive):
(...) injured and possibly devastated by an event that was perpetrated by some other person, either intentionally or accidentally. And because of that fact you were defined as being a victim. You may be the victim of a war event, a rape, a terrible crash of some sort, or any number of horrible situations no person would choose. This set of events places you in the role of sufferer. You, therefore, have a direct cause you can point to for your damages. And if you cannot find a resolution to these damages yourself, you can take it out on the world, right? No. You instead need to have your internal compass reset to your true north. I realize that you were traumatized in some event that left you vulnerable and at least a little off track from your life plan. And it may not seem fair to ask you to leave that all behind, to have to take on the work of recovery when you didn’t cause the problem in the first place. But when you get to the end of the line, you will find positives in taking on that change, and you are the only one who can do it. (pages 155 – 156).
November 4, 2015
Breakthrough is way too strong a word for this book. A few ideas, sure, and you can tell the author is very well-meaning. But I got very little out of it. I think part of the problem is, Lawlis is speaking from a place of ignorant knowledge: he has knowledge from a psychologist's point of view, but none from an I've-been-there point of view, which I think, for something like PTSD, is the only way to really find a breakthrough. It's like a book on parenting written by someone who's never had kids. Even if they've studied parenting, they don't really KNOW enough to come up with a real parenting breakthrough, or to even really identify well with their readers.
Again, nice guy, well meaning, but very little depth of content. And like others have said, he doesn't actually reference studies or anything; he just says "science proves" or "research shows", and that's that.
Again, nice guy, well meaning, but very little depth of content. And like others have said, he doesn't actually reference studies or anything; he just says "science proves" or "research shows", and that's that.
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March 19, 2011Many modern techniques to alleviate the most debilitating cases.
March 23, 2019
"Read" is a somewhat loose term for this since I began skimming by p.80 as it became more and more clear that while this has some perfectly valid suggestions for coping with PTSD, there was equally as much that struck as pseudo-science with little to inspire faith in the author's suggestions. Many of the sections were more alt. and complementary health and spiritual practice as much as medical or psychological methods; I use all of the above and have no objection to such, but do object to things getting lumped in together and with a veneer of authorial medical knowledge vs. fact.
What was far more annoying was the over-simplification of the suggestions (really, you think I should stress less and get better sleep to help my focus and PTSD? Gee. Thanks for the tip. I'll follow right up). The comical case study characters lacked either the complexity of real individuals or the author lacks in writing skills to present a more wholistic sketch of patients. Annoying in this day, and I will say it is a few years old, but while mention is made of other forms of trauma, the book is heavily geared toward male vets as a source for PTSD.
While I can appreciate an integrative approach to treatment, I think, as another reviewer said, I'll leave coffee enemas and vision quests to others and seek treatment from other sources. It did provide some laugh out loud material that had my roommate and I rolling on the floor and laughter certainly is good medicine.
What was far more annoying was the over-simplification of the suggestions (really, you think I should stress less and get better sleep to help my focus and PTSD? Gee. Thanks for the tip. I'll follow right up). The comical case study characters lacked either the complexity of real individuals or the author lacks in writing skills to present a more wholistic sketch of patients. Annoying in this day, and I will say it is a few years old, but while mention is made of other forms of trauma, the book is heavily geared toward male vets as a source for PTSD.
While I can appreciate an integrative approach to treatment, I think, as another reviewer said, I'll leave coffee enemas and vision quests to others and seek treatment from other sources. It did provide some laugh out loud material that had my roommate and I rolling on the floor and laughter certainly is good medicine.
November 29, 2017
Some bull about toxins, some plausible therapy stuff.
May 3, 2019
“Stress is the culprit of rage, and therefore learning how to manage this stress is key.”
October 5, 2019
This is the first, probably not the last, on the subject of PTSD. It does give some insight. I have been told no one can be completely cured of PTSD, but this book seems to indicate otherwise.
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December 16, 2022Skimmed through this book. It looks very comprehensive and helpful. Step by step practical approach.
March 3, 2015
It is a waste of time to try to figure out why people did or did not do the things of the past. You cannot change the past, you cannot make things happen differently, you can never truly know what is in another's mind & you certainly should not continuously beat yourself up. All these points only act to create more discord in the mind by complicating it with emotions such as guilt & fear. You will never find simplified answers in this pile of chaotic data of the mind, so seeking them in this manner only acts to further complicate the issues @ hand.
1 of the most features of learning features of learning to relax is learning to breathe. Your breath is a signal. The pattern of your breathing is a signal to the rest of your body so that you can begin to allow all of your systems to go into sleep mode. By breathing the relaxation pattern, your mind can shut down, your heart can actually begin to rest itself better. All of your organs, your kidneys, your lungs, your pancreas, your intestines, a7 your muscles can relax as well. It is the pace that's important, focus on your pace.
1 of the most features of learning features of learning to relax is learning to breathe. Your breath is a signal. The pattern of your breathing is a signal to the rest of your body so that you can begin to allow all of your systems to go into sleep mode. By breathing the relaxation pattern, your mind can shut down, your heart can actually begin to rest itself better. All of your organs, your kidneys, your lungs, your pancreas, your intestines, a7 your muscles can relax as well. It is the pace that's important, focus on your pace.
December 22, 2015
I recently heard of this book by way of the Dr Phil Show and was anxious to read it. I suffer from PTSD and over the course of many years it has endlessly controlled and ruined my life. From early on I have searched for methods, medications and any possible remedies to lessen or remove some of the horrific symptoms; the worst one being constant nightmares. I have tried many different things, none of which proved to have any validity. This book does offer various steps and methods of improving overall brain health and tactics to curb or end various symptoms. It does clearly state that some of them may work for some and not for others. Some of the suggestions listed are things that I attempted that did not work for me; however, there are suggestions of things I hadn't heard of or tried which gives me hope that one or more of them could in fact hold promise. The book is well written, with easy to understand step by step instructions and patient accounts on their encounters with different techniques. There are suggestions both on the pricey side and ones that are not.
December 28, 2014
Very informative to deal with people who suffer from PTSD. Personally I used to suffer from PTSD, this book is indeed useful for someone like me.
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