Down Range: To Iraq and Back | Bridget C. Cantrell; Chuck Dean

Down Range: To Iraq and Back | Bridget C. Cantrell; Chuck Dean | Coming back to the real world with the right kind of support

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Down Range: To Ira...

	Down Range: To Iraq and Back Bridget C. Cantrell; Chuck Dean WordSmith Books, 2005 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

...Maybe it's just me...

If you were there, you either lived it, saw it or heard about it. Something in this book will apply to you and it can make the difference between being at home or homeless. A must read for those who question"...maybe it's just me...". Iraq 03-04

Coming back to the real world with the right kind of support

This book was long overdue. This will help us avoid what happened to our Vietnam Vets. The support and information provided by two professionals who have a wealth of knowledge and experience in treatment of PTSD and other trauma experiences provides veterans and their families with a way to cope and deal with the problems that arise during and after exposure to the war. The book is well written and easy to understand. However, the most important thing this book does is bring the affects of PTSD out of the closet and an awareness that there is help available and ways to deal with the affects.
Thank you Bridget and Chuck for writing such a comprehensive and worthwhile account of something that has affected our society and needs to be addressed.

Cecilia A. Stevens

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The truth about the "Walking Wounded"

Mr Dean and Dr Cantrell, tell it like it is and was for us veterans returning to "The World"...For 30 plus years I was the "walking wounded", suffering from PTSD and not having a clue why things were not going right ..
MY hope is that reading this book will open the eyes of not only the families, but the poloticians who hold the purse strings for the funds needed to treating both the newly retuning vets and the vets from wars past....
Early detection and early treatment are paramount in treating these "Walking Wounded" and this book unmasks the veil of pride and denial the families and we vets loom under....So "Listen UP" and read this book ...Thank you Mr Dean and Dr Cantrell

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just my thoughts

well, first off let me just say that down range was very informative... i say informative because i could only truly relate to alittle of it. while reading the book i was really hoping to connect with it, but i don't have alot of the symptoms the book talks about. i did relate to some, and those were the parts i read very carefully, but when i got to the parts i couldn't connect with, it was hard for me to focus on reading and really soak in what the author was talking about..once i read the book for me and got what i needed out of the book....i re-read it for the information, and focused on what i can learn about ptsd...and help share it with my soldiers. all in all it is a good book, and although it has been the only book i've read on ptsd..i would recomend it to other soldiers for their deployments and redeployments.

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Thoughts of a combat veteran

The book should be in the possession of every combat serviceman and his family. Dean and Cantrell build on Dean's two prior books about essentially the same topic: The damage warriors bring home, but that cannot be easily seen. Nonphysical wounds of a psychological nature are as real as shrapnel holes! Returning to the family after being in combat can be a difficult transition for many young men and nowdays for women. Families need to know what to expect, and so does the returning service member. It was recently estimated that as many as 36% of our returnees from Iraq and Afghanistan may be affected by serious cases of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. If this is true, it's a calamity we cannot ignore.
Get the book and read it cover to cover. It takes on difficult challenges, and may help get us through the minefields of trauma in homecoming.The message is important to families as well as to the serving member. This first edition has some grammar problems that detract from the message at times. Subsequent editions can be expected to be more professionally edited.
A best seller? We shall see, but it is certainly something it will pay to get your hands on if you have a loved one in a combat zone.

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