If symptoms last more than a few months, it may be PTSD. The good news is that there are effective treatments. Learn about symptoms, types of trauma, common reactions, and related problems. Find out about care near you and self-help resources for managing symptoms. Help your loved ones with PTSD and find the support you need for yourself.
Information and tools to help you with assessment and treatment of PTSD. Ask our experts a question or request consultation about PTSD-related issues. Veterans Crisis Line: Press 1. Complete Directory. Author: Chris Plekenpol, Copyright You want the flare of your faith to burn as intensely as a fire on the battlefield.
These devotions are written by a man who had considered war something that someone else always did, and was then himself deployed to Iraq as a company commander.
Because in war, as in contemporary America , reality involves struggle, trial, and triumph. Why, God? War screams the same questions whispered in everyday life. The battlefield explodes with the same tenacity of emotions that wretch our souls. Smoke fills the air just as doubt clouds our minds. Are you on the frontlines of war overseas?
Or perhaps your battle is personal, deep within. These devotions, penned by Captain Chris Plekenpol while on the battlefield in Iraq, expose the depths of inexplicable suffering as well as the heights of incredible victory in God. Faith Under Fire. An army chaplain's memoir. I had tried.
As he left for his second tour of duty as an Army chaplain in Iraq, Roger Benimoff noted in his journal: I am excited and I am scared. I am on fire for God He is my hope, strength, and focus. Unable to make sense of the senseless, Benimoff turned to his journal.
What did it mean to believe in a God who would allow the utter horror and injustice of war? Did He want these brave young men and women to die? In his darkest moment, Benimoff wrote: Why am I so angry?
I do not want anything to do with God. I am sick of religion. It is a crutch for the weak. He withdrew emotionally from wife and sons, creating tensions that threatened to shatter the family. He was assigned to work at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he counseled returning soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder—until he was diagnosed himself with PTSD. Finding himself in the role of patient rather than caregiver, connecting as an equal with his fellow sufferers, and revisiting scriptural readings that once again rang with meaning and truth, he began his most decisive battle: for the love of his family and for the chance to once again open his heart to the healing grace of God.
Field of Influence. Author: Jenny Reese Clark, Copyright To change one's field of influence is to change the course of one's life.
If I move one more step in any direction, I have to acknowledge that I passed serious long ago. I pursue an ever-eluding precursor of death, and I'm never satisfied when I find it. The time I spend in pleasure does not outweigh the chase, and the reasons why I continue in this parody of life baffle me.
Marine Thurman Casey Shaw. With an honorable discharge and wounds more than surface deep, United States Marine Thurman Casey Shaw leaves one war zone to battle for a half-life existence in another. With a former brother as his only friend in New York, Casey loses himself inside of a world that he can't escape. Addiction and desperate times lead him to an unusual proposal; Once you ingest the contents of this box, you must loosen its hold on your life forever.
Accepting the challenge out of pure hopelessness, Casey has no clue that when he wakes up, his life will change whether he wants it to or not. While filled with strong emotional content, the array of feelings are broad and explained in a way only one who has been there knows and can. As a former prisoner, I was spared by the same grace offered to Casey.
Redemption, sacrifice, faith, and love are all core elements found in this work. It begins serious and ends even more intense. This Marine's story is written for all who seek answers and my goal is that once read, those answers forge next steps. Authors: Edward E. Moody, Jr. This booklet provides hope and healing for veterans and their families who are suffering the invisible wounds and scars of war. Moody and Trogdon provide helpful information to understand the struggles and offer effective ways to find a brighter future of purpose and peace.
Topics include: PTSD, traumatic brain injury, stress of war, transitioning to home, and many more. The authors' writing flows out of experience and a genuine appreciation for those who have served to protect our country's freedom. God Understands American Bible Society. Armed Services Ministry in collaboration with Veteran Affairs VA chaplain consultants developed the God Understands series: A resource created to provide healing, hope and comfort to veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and the spiritual, physical and emotional brokenness brought on by active duty service.
Based on the Spiritual Injury Scale used by VA chaplains, real life situations about Veterans are shared to help identify spiritual injuries that often lead to feelings of uncertainty. There is a common human thread that flows through our frailties, our weaknesses, our heartaches and our sufferings—and a common thread of hope that so many have found through prayer and Scripture. Engaging this content can help you process your injuries and begin to heal. Start your own journey today. Author: Greg Gifford, Copyright Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is everywhere.
As you will see, God offers us a perspective on how we should view PTSD and the trauma that started it all. Nam Vet. Making peace with your past. Author: Chuck Dean, Copyright Although the Vietnam War officially ended in , it still rages in the lives of thousands of veterans and their families. This book not only tells why so many Vietnam veterans suffer from flashbacks, depression, fits of rage, nightmares, emotional numbing, and broken relationships, but it offers solid answers and gives hope.
It reveals the way to peace on the subject of post-traumatic stress. Once a Warrior. Wired for life. Once a Warrior: And Wired For Life illustrates how to turn negatives into positives and assists our highly trained military personnel in utilizing their tremendous potential in achieving success and happiness after their release from military service.
This book highlights the path along the way to transitioning from warrior to civilian. It is not a book to read just once, but one to study over and over again. Tending the Warrior Soul. Author: Louis Harrison, Copyright In war there are traumas to the soul that are not assuaged for the warrior by even the most excellent psychological care, medical interventions, and official support programs.
Tending the Warrior Soul helps to advance understanding of this soul damage, and offers support, encouragement, lessons from personal experience, counsel, challenge, and resources to those God has called to care for warriors' souls, as well as to the warriors themselves and their loved ones.
We must "remake" our worldview, expand our theological reference points, and accommodate our civilized views about violence, cruelty, right and wrong to the uncivilized applications of war.
Neither God nor His commandments change, for these are the anchor points, trustworthy and sure. Teaching people to sort through the reality of God while sifting through the ashes of soul, spirit, and mind burned in the consequences of war is not "routine" business.
Ministry to warriors is transformative. Army, Retired. Lou Harrison never dreamed of "writing a book," and was embarrassed when it was suggested. The thoughts he had been writing down during his years of ministry were for his own understanding and growth in ministry to combatants. His words, advice and insight have been tested for accuracy and usefulness through feedback from war-experienced friends, extending from young grunts to ranking line officers and chaplains.
The Combat Trauma Healing Manual. Christ-centered solutions for combat trauma. Author: Rev. Chris Adsit, Copyright Available through www. The Combat Trauma Healing Manual offers spiritual solutions for struggles with PTSD by helping construct an environment that will give God optimal access to the wounded soul. The book outlines a step-by-step program that will help PTSD sufferers…. Understand your trauma — spiritually, psychologically and physiologically.
Adopt therapeutic spiritual disciplines to bring you closer to God. Process your loss and grief. Experience the freeing influence of giving and receiving forgiveness. Rebuild your identity based on what God says about you. Strengthen yourself spiritually against future attacks.
Connect with those who will support you in many ways. Define plans to fully reintegrate into society as a strengthened man or woman of God. Two Wars. One hero's fight on two fronts--abroad and within. Author: Nate Self, Copyright For the first time, Army Ranger hero Nate Self tells his story.
Self recounts the Roberts Ridge Rescue mission, the ferocious battles in Afghanistan, and the lone war of attrition that Nate Self has waged against post-traumatic stress disorder. This book will become a go-to book for understanding the long-term effects of the war on terror.
Thousands of families are fighting this battle, and Nate Self opens up his whole life—tragedies, successes, failures, and a struggle with suicidal thoughts—to share the facts and to show how his family and his faith pulled him through. When War Comes Home. Christ-centered healing for wives of combat veterans. Copyright Insights from the medical and counseling community are wrapped in biblical principles and the shared experiences of other military wives.
The reader will:. Wounded Soldier, Healing Warrior. A personal story of a Vietnam veteran who lost his legs but found his soul. Author: Allen B. Clark Jr. A mortar exploded, and West Point graduate Allen B. This is the story of how one soldier, so gravely injured that both of his legs were amputated, turned his grievous loss into a personal triumph.
Clark describes his struggle through a year-long recovery and a severe bout of post traumatic stress disorder, so little understood at the time. He tells of earning his MBA from Southern Methodist University and finding employment as a personal financial assistant to Ross Perot, of moving on to public service and founding the Combat Faith Ministry , a lay ministry to veterans. Clark's story of growth and spiritual fulfillment wrested from his wartime tragedy is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and is of special relevance in our day of so many soldiers returning wounded in body and spirit from Iraq.
Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home. Orr, Copyright For every wounded warrior, there is a wounded home--an immediate and extended family and community impacted by their loved one's war experiences. Every day service members are returning from combat deployments to their families.
And every day war comes home with them. Spouses, parents, and children must undergo changes on the home front, a process that resembles the phases of grief. Confusion, hurt, anger, guilt, fatigue, and fear lie behind their brave smiles and squared shoulders. Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home gives hurting families a look inside the minds and hearts of wounded warriors and guides them in developing their own personal plan for physical, emotional, and spiritual wholeness in the wake of war.
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