Review by Etienneza -- The Post Traumatic Stress Disorde...

[Etienneza]

[Following is a volunteer review of "The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy" by H. Nattanya Andersen.]

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2 out of 4 stars

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With tears streaming down his face, a close friend urges you what his subsequent step should be. The engine explosion mid-air did not kill him, but the damage inflicted on his mind-nerve center might never heal. What will your words of comfort be?

The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy describes a lengthy torturous journey towards healing from the debilitating effects of a Boeing 737 engine exploding mid-air, with H. Nattanya Andersen stationed literally 5 feet away. She miraculously survives. A vivid description of her journey attempting to heal the self follows. Mental health professionals with industry accolades and years of experience, proffer diagnoses therapy and support. Grim years of fumbling through an emotional wasteland continues. As a vessel with no rudder anchor or certain port of call, she turns to psychiatrists, psychologists numerologist, astrologists, clairvoyants and shamans for solace. Prolonged destruction of the mind continues. Suicidal dalliances appear more alluring as time passes. Final pronouncements on the accuracy, validity and efficacy of medical and pharmacological intervention for those suffering from PTSD are listed. Sad and wrenching a journey it is, thus so to many still labouring under a yoke of suffering. How does Nattanya Andersen survive?

I was enthusiastically drawn to The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy. as chronic depression survivor. Readers are served with valuable insights into current diagnostic tools and their practical applications and methodologies. Research pointing to inflammation in the gut as the harbinger of all mental or physical disease is fascinating, it demands further reading. The penultimate chapter "Only the self can heal the self." alludes to virtues required to draw comfort and strength from. Personal willpower, determination and persistency, in a nutshell. Nattanya Andersen was not an exact fit for diagnoses or PTSD spectra currently available. The book might provide the impetus for psychometricians to investigate the reasons why. It is possible I opine, medical science may merely provide the bridge between an incident of trauma and our introduction to an acute awareness of the budding 3 virtues referred to. The healing journey has to forge ahead and driven from within, as the author rightfully mentions.

Recommendations for an audience? It neither serves as a constructive structured handbook for PTSD sufferers, nor a reference guide to those considering mainstream or less traditional means of therapy. The author exempts it from being a medical diagnostics journal. Suffice to mention the avenues of healing that achieved results are only alluded to in passing and not discussed in enough detail to serve as references. Nattanya Andersen might decide to discuss these in the latter part of the trilogy. As it stands, plenty unanswered questions remain. Mentions to cited works elaborated on more extensively, via additional references, self-help tools, links to valuable websites, would change the outcome. Solely slanting medical science for ill delivery on a grand scale is insufficient. Elucidation of how, why and where practical solutions were lurking would be invaluable to prospective readers.

Following the above disappointment and adding shoddy editing, the publication attracts a well deserved 2 out of 4 stars. An attempt to present comprehensive research and conclusions on a united outcome was unsuccessful. If the author did indeed commence with a Tabula Rasa, it would not alter the outcome. Multiple spelling errors are noted in the text unfortunately.

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The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy
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[Mtibza eM]

Oh, what a traumatic experience. I need to read this book, and I sad that you had to rate it half stars.

[markodim721]

I think that the author invested a lot of effort but also courage to write a book that has a very sensitive topic. Of course, the book could have been better.