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    Writing As Therapy: Tools to Treat Trauma
    Writing As Therapy: Tools to Treat Trauma
    Writing As Therapy: Tools to Treat Trauma
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    Writing As Therapy: Tools to Treat Trauma

    By Mark Antony Rossi

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    The highest respect is owed our returning military veterans to insure a fast and healthy readjustment to civilian life. USAF Veteran and Writer, Mark Antony Rossi shares his stories and examples to help others begin the process of using their writings as a means of positive therapy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoma Publishing
    Release dateJul 2, 2018
    Writing As Therapy: Tools to Treat Trauma

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      Writing As Therapy - Mark Antony Rossi

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      Introduction: Post Stress Redress

      Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a universally recognized genuine illness. You can get PTSD after experiencing a traumatic event such as war, a hurricane, sexual assault, physical abuse or horrible accident. More than 13 million Americans have PTSD. Nearly eight percent of all adults will develop PTSD during their lifetime. And 1 out of 10 women will get PTSD at some point in their lives.

      Evidence of mental trauma was documented by Greek historian Herodotus during the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. Herodotus wrote about an Athenian warrior who went permanently blind when a soldier next to him was killed. The blind soldier had not been physically wounded. During the American Civil War, Da Costa syndrome (soldier’s heart) found soldiers with extreme irritability and cardiac symptoms. In WWI, shell shock was believed to be brain trauma from exploding shells. WWI used terms as combat neurosis and "operational fatigue’ to describe combat-associated symptoms.

      The diagnosis of PTSD was not adapted until the late 1970’s and it became official in 1980 with inclusion in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. A 2012 Time Magazine study showed 66% of identified PTSD sufferers were taking some version of an anti-depressant. This book is meant to help those with mild to moderate PTSD sufferers who might not require a pharmaceutical approach to their issues. While I am not against the mentally ill availing themselves of whatever pharmaceutical demonstrates relief, I am also painfully aware that too many in the professional mental health community push medication before other less invasive methods.

      An individual’s treatment may require more than one discipline to be effective which is exactly why I believe writing therapy to be a valuable tool in the hands of healers working on a better path of stabilization and eventually self-realization. What you discover about yourself will be the truth and that truth will categorically set you free.

      Writing as Therapy for Returning Military Members in Distress

      Trauma stemming from combat situations is an invisible scar buried far from the naked eye. Its reappearance can be subtle because integration is not always through the public personality. The state of dreaming is usually the first area to suffer damage.

      How we dream and if we dream is paramount to staying connected to reality in a healthy manner. Skewed dreaming from unresolved stress is a major component to insomnia and insomnia a precursor to personality shift which frequently leads to pharmaceutical prescription.

      What if the dream world could be stabilized through writing therapy rather than antidepressants? What if writing therapy can repair the fissures created from battle fatigue? The alternative is mood manipulating drugs or adopting Hollywood stereotypes labeling military members Manchurian candidates poised to subvert society.

      Catholic clergymen are fond of saying confession is good for the soul. This statement is not a convenient cliché meant to gin up longer lines at the confessional booth. It belongs in the category of maxim: a brief bold truth elevating our understanding. The act of confession is the equivalent of lancing a brutally painful boil. The irony is those in desperate need of release remain in self-imposed prisons of fear.

      The kinder methods of writing therapy build a sturdy path to incremental confession. The scales of humanity expect healing on an immediate basis but the injured are complicated creatures seeking to rule their lives in a world seemingly out of control. Out of natural

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