Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Workbook: Practical Help and Information for PTSD
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You get to write the last chapter of your story.
PTSD is stealing far too much from the lives of trauma survivors. Many suffer in silence. This workbook provides transformational tools for working through:
• Fear
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Losses
• Panic attacks
• Low self-esteem
• Triggers
• Destructive patterns
Writing down your feelings enables you to analyze your thoughts and behaviour, reason them out, and effect change. Scientific research shows that by learning to think differently, we can change the brain. This book will empower you to initiate the necessary changes to restore order in your life.
This book includes an easily understood explanation of how trauma is stored in the brain and what trauma does to the brain. Inside this book there is a plan for overcoming the symptoms that hold you captive and a personalized path forward towards peace and freedom.
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Workbook - Sheri McLaughlin RPC CPCA
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER WORKBOOK
Copyright © 2018 by Sheri McLaughlin, RPC, CPCA
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The information outlined in this workbook is the result of decades of experience and research by the author. It is intended to provide practical and helpful information regarding the subject of post-traumatic stress disorder. Any use of the information in this book is at the reader’s discretion. The author and publisher specifically disclaim any and all liability arising directly or indirectly from the use or application of any information contained in this book.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained herein is accurate. The ideas, procedures, and suggestions contained in this book are not intended as a substitute for consulting with a medical doctor or psychological health care professional.
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Contents
Introduction
1. What Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
2. Negative Cognition and Mood
3. Losses
4. The Inner Person: Your Spiritual Self
5. The Areas of the Brain and What You Should Know About Them
6. The Effects of PTSD on the Amygdala
7. Biblical Restructuring: Allowing God to Change Your Mind
8. Overview of Healing from Trauma: A Biblical Perspective
Bibliography
Introduction
As a person who has personally suffered from PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic attacks, I find it unhelpful to be labelled as someone with a mental illness. For me, I felt kind of odd and wondered why I just couldn’t get on with my life. I would hear about murders on the news and often the perpetrator would be described as someone who had a mental illness. I didn’t want to be labelled in the same category and it greatly disturbed me.
I am choosing to describe PTSD as a struggle with our emotions due to circumstances we were unable to control. We would not have chosen to have traumas inflicted upon us.
In my opinion, the healing process related to PTSD, depression, anxiety, and other emotional issues isn’t much different from the healing process in regards to physical injuries. The brain is a physical part of our makeup, just as any other part of our body. The brain encompasses our minds and our emotions. If we have an injury here, it only makes sense that we will experience difficulty with our emotions and thought processes.
If you broke your arm or leg, likely you would have a cast put on, and it