Reporter Thinks Loving Veteran With PTSD is New?

This is what I got in my email and made me spit out my coffee on my desk. It missed my monitor.

Pair's book sheds light on spousal PTSD fight StarNewsOnline.com
The two women had spouses who were diagnosed with PTSD. ... unchartered territory of loving someone with post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD).

"Unchartered?" Seriously? What they hell did the reporter think all other generations were doing? Any clue how many books have been written over the years about all of this? Just one more case of the media manipulation instead of doing some basic research.


I've been doing this for over 30 years and even wrote a couple of books about it but someone else wrote books long before me.

Patience Press started in 1993 with the publication of Why Is Daddy Like He Is? a book for the children of veterans with PTSD and the first issue of The Post-Traumatic Gazette. We also sold remaindered hardback copies of the Viking (1990) edition of Recovering from the War: A Woman’s Guide to Helping Your Vietnam Veteran, Your Family and Yourself. When we ran out in 1998, Bob created a new cover for the book and, because so many veterans had found it helpful even those from other wars, we changed the subtitle to A Guide for All Veterans, Family Members, Friends and Therapists.

Patience also wrote a series of pamphlets about PTSD: After the War: For the Wives of All Veterans, An Explanation of PTSD for Twelve Steppers:When I get sober I feel crazy, and The War at Home. This was followed by Why Is Mommy Like She Is? a book for the children of women trauma survivors. When the new wars started, she wrote a pamphlet for the new veterans, Home from War. Finally, she wrote a new version of Why Is Mommy Like She Is? for military women who have been deployed or suffered MST. All of these are now available free on this website. You may copy them and share them as long as you retain Patience’s copyright notice.

There are thousands of book about living with PTSD but as long as reporters want to pretend no one was charting what life was like, then history will simultaneously be repeated and ignored. If you want to know why things have gotten worse with more being done on PTSD, it is simply because most of the true groundbreaking work was done before the internet.