If you didn’t know, I’m a book publisher for a living. A few months ago I was working on a project about PTSD by a psychologist in San Francisco. His father—who was likely suffering from wartime PTSD — had been various forms of abusive to his family. When he was almost 30-years old, my client was watching TV in his childhood home when his father shot his mother in the next room and then shot himself. Through his harrowing story, he traces the history of PTSD and its associated diagnoses, as well as his personal experience overcoming the grief of his parents’ murder-suicide and other traumatic events in his life. Some of his suggestions and conclusions are what inspired this post—namely the radical suggestion that one practice
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