Published: Dec. 21, 2011
Words: 28,821 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780983111139

Short description

No Comfort Zone challenges the reader to understand a bit of what it’s like to live with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). With insight, clarity and humor, the author describes the fear and unpredictability of her past and links them to her perceptions, reactions and hopes in the present.

Extended description

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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Tags

nonfiction, child abuse, inspiration, inspirational, rape, memoir, ptsd, ptsd post traumatic stress disorder, stress, trauma, nonfiction narrative, rape and its aftermath, inspiration and hope, ptsd recovery, complex ptsd, complex post traumatic stress disorder

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Review by: Crimfan on Aug. 16, 2012 :
This book is a very tough but very enlightening read. Anyone who suffers from PTSD, particularly developmental trauma, or loves someone who does should read this book. (And if you suffer from developmental trauma you should love yourself but probably have a hard time with that. Reading this will help.)
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Crimfan on Aug. 16, 2012 : (no rating)
This book is a very tough but very enlightening read. Anyone who suffers from PTSD, particularly developmental trauma, or loves someone who does should read this book. (And if you suffer from developmental trauma you should love yourself but probably have a hard time with that. Reading this will help.)
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Sister Loreto on May 03, 2012 : (no rating)
This book has been a tremendous help to me in understanding PTSD and why I sometimes react the way I do. What is especially helpful is the personal aspect of this book on the part of the author. Anyone who suffers from PTSD should read this book.
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Review by: Shirley Holt on April 28, 2012 :
I really "enjoyed" reading this book.
"Enjoyed" seems a word that should not be associated with a book on PTSD but l do not feel quite so alone.
It is not an easy subject to admit the need to read a book on.
I am thankful for finding out about it and reading it.
Well worth the read.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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