Virginia Eubanks on writing about PTSD for the New York Times Magazine.
Virginia Eubanks on having, caring for someone with, and writing about post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Virginia Eubanks on having, caring for someone with, and writing about post-traumatic stress disorder.
Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?
My PTSD Stalks Me Still. Yet I’ve Found a Way to Reset. C.J. Chivers © Glasshouse Images Inside the ‘fear chemistry’ of past trauma. Here's how one Marine learned to reset his mental state after powerful memories came shrieking back into his mind. THE VISIONS OFviolence come without prompts I can anticipate or perceive, typically in moments of tranquility and rest. I’ll be dozing off near a wood stove on a chilly night, perhaps with my dog at my feet. Or I’ll be reclined in bed with a book under a summer moon, in the last moments before sleep, put to ease by the ...