Post Traumatic Stress and Disorderly is one man's story growing up in
Liverpool UK and his fight with the mental health condition PTSD,
manifested by multiple horrific ordeals.
Symptoms first surfaced as a young teenager after being targeted by the
notorious Liverpool Bogeyman during the eighties, stalked and bullied
until a violent confrontation was the only way out of the harrowing
situation, thus becoming the catalyst for the debilitating mental
state.
His ordeal included witnessing three murders (including two in a double
gangland execution of friends in his family run health club in the
nineties) the investigation, the suspicion of his involvement by the
police, the court cases as a pivotal witness, the wearing of a bullet
proof vest and self-prescribed remedies of cocaine and alcohol to escape
the torturing images embedded into his now fragile mindset. These
remedies were just as destructive, helping the demise to an already
crumbling psyche. This book is a brutally honest account of one man's
failings to some degree successes in his elusive search for a more
stable peace of mind.
But it didn't stop there. Bolstering the attacks of PTSD, he experienced
a car bomb attack to kill and destroy, a near psychotic encounter with a
global superstar, incarceration to HMP Liverpool, a near fatal stabbing
on a family holiday, right up to the experiences of losing both parents
within fifteen months of each other, one to the pandemic in 2020, and
the tragic premature loss of his oldest brother shortly after.
This is an account of creating antidotes for better mental health,
finally accumulating into a formula of stability that the mental health
professionals failed to provide. Like the ups and downs of a vast
mountain range Post Traumatic Stress and Disorderly will take you down
to the caverns of despair, soaring to the peaks of personal achievement,
in a war the author has had with himself.
