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No Comfort Zone: Notes on Living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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No Comfort Zone: Notes on Living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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No Comfort Zone exposes a jagged slice of humanity that is all too present, but often shielded from our view. The author challenges us to see life as she does, so we can understand a bit of what it’s like to live with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). With insight and humor, she describes the fear and unpredictability of growing up in an unstable household, the terror of being raped as a young adult, and the confusion and shame of living with perceptions and reactions that are often so very different from others’. After years of treatment for depression, a diagnosis of PTSD came as a surprise. Isn’t this something that only happens to combat veterans? But it made sense. In writing this highly personal account, Marla Handy helps the rest of us understand what PTSD is and that it happens here at home, too.

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PublisherMarla Handy
Release dateDec 21, 2011
ISBN9780983111139
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No Comfort Zone: Notes on Living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Marla Handy

Marla Handy, Ph.D., has over 25 years of experience consulting with nonprofit and community organizations in the areas of strategic planning, governance and managerial development, and has worked domestically and in South America, Africa, Asia, the South Pacific, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She recently retired from teaching at a large university.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Review: I am not really sure what to call this book genre-wise - it seems like a mix between a memoir and a PTSD self-help guide; even though the author does not consider it biographical. The format is unique, the subtitle - "Notes on Living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" - is a good description of how the book is laid out overall - "Notes". Included are short stories about Marla Handy's condition/experiences with tips on how to live with PTSD discussed throughout, but most of No Comfort Zone documents the thoughts and feelings surrounding specific events - Marla's difficult home-life, rape, depression, suicidal thoughts, uncharacteristic emotions, and over-reactions. The tone is honest and straight-forward, giving readers a glimpse of what it feels like to have, and live with, PTSD, and how someone can "treat" and/or make the disorder more tolerable. Marla's account is very personal and emotional, but highly educational; a great resource for those affected as well as medical/psychological professionals. I definitely have a better understanding of what it means to have post-traumatic stress disorder, and how I can be more sensitive around those who do.Rating: On the Run (4/5)*** I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    PTSD is something close to my heart, so it was a privilege to read this book on a topic affecting so many people I know. As a combat soldier, and someone who suffers from a mild form of PTSD myself, the knowledge and wisdom that author Maria Handy imparts to her book comforts and enlightens the reader. The book not only gives tidbits to help, but also makes the reader unlock certain things in themselves. I highly recommend this book to not only sufferers of PTSD, but families of those who have it, and in general, anyone who, at the very base, could use a little dose of humanity in their lives.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This isn't really a memoir, but it isn't really a self-help book on PTSD, its symptoms, and treatments for it. It's a bit of both, but mostly it is a sparely written account of how living with PTSD has affected one woman's life.Ms. Handy presents the facts of her life that contributed to her chronic PTSD in a flat, almost monotone, matter-of-face way. These things happened. They affected me these ways at the time, and these other ways at later times.PTSD is a disease that affects many Americans and not just soldiers. Soldiers returning home from war, survivors of rape and childhood abuse, domestic violence survivors. the one person in the car crash who wasn't killed, the list goes on and on. This disease is little understood, but it is out there and at larger numbers than we expect. Kin to anxiety and panic disorder, the symptoms with PTSD are much more severe and much more life impacting. Imagine that you can't go to bed without your gun, but your child is going to be in bed with you. What then? With PTSD the external world and the interior world are full of hazards - difficult to negotiate, difficult to understand, difficult to explain away to others.If you want a glimpse into what it's like to live with chronic PTSD, I recommend this book. It won't disappoint you.