Ptsd Book Club? Are There Avid Readers Here?

[KP the nut]

KP is hopping around in excitement - bless I don't get out much. Anymore excitement and I will need a wee :rolleyes::eek:

 

[Gamereign555]

How do you 'private message' somebody on here? I don't have messenger or the likes of anything else that would do. I can start a conversation or leave it on your profile page i guess. What shall I do.

 

[Happy Head]

Awesome idea, this will force me to read for pleasure rather than school! Thanks Anthony, count me in

 

[Loloma]

Anthony, there are some brilliant books written by S Scott Peck who is a psychiatrist, probably retired by now. I have read two of them and they can be bought at a discount price through Amazon in a package of three for just under $28.00

"People of the Lie", "Road Less Travelled" and "Further Along the Road Less Travelled".

Just thought you may like to look at it. I used the first two when I was hospitalised for a long period in the Nineties. They helped me a lot and deals with PTSD in many forms from childhood to adulthood. Made me understand a lot about the evil side of people. The other was uplifting and a guide to finding your way in life. It explained life as a road map and how we branch of the track as life situations occur. Very interesting reading.

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

 

[ButterflyPEI]

I am in for sure. Reading is my best escape! Where will be find the Book Club forum? Will it just be this thread or another one under Chit Chat?

 

[Gamereign555]

Not sure yet, Anthony would get around to that part later he said.

 

[anthony]

It will appear as a forum in the general category... called, Book Club.

Taking a breather at the moment from writing a small novel to explain Eriksons Psychosocial Theory, whilst having to makeup a case study, then analyse it. Go figure... the shit you have to do for schooling.

I have read two of them and they can be bought at a discount price through Amazon in a package of three for just under $28.00

"People of the Lie", "Road Less Travelled" and "Further Along the Road Less Travelled".

Thanks Loloma.. I will take a look. Still getting through the current few I have here, which I have ignored for the past month or so due to holidays. I try to read 25 - 50 pages a day of the more indepth books... so it only consumes 30 - 90 minutes a day of my time without overloading.

I am looking forward to reading outside of the entire trauma field though. That will actually be refreshing.

There was one someone mentioned, which sparked my curiosity the other day, and I have it bookmarked on my other computer which I can't access right now... but will include here later, which when I searched brought up some other quality recommendations on grief, relationships and trauma, life after death, etc, which I found interesting as maybe's for my own personal trauma collection.

 

[catjudo]

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Mercy by Jodi Picoult

 

[Happy Head]

If you want a true, entertaining, hysterical story Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods is great

 

[bluebeam]

I'm in, but I'm voting for a short book. I get distracted easy.

 

[Gamereign555]

It might be a good idea to go with something no more than 300 pages at first.