The Hidden War: PTSD on the Front Lines: Memoirs of a Psychologist Treating Warriors at a Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan
Contents
Prologue
Enlisting
Training, Training, Training
Pre-Mobilization
Mobilization
More Training
Deployment to Kandahar
Camp Nathan Smith
Counseling
Settling In
Missing the Comforts of Home
My “Home” Away from Home
Outside the Wire
Behavioral Health Deployment Stress
Buddy Watch
Outside the Wire Again
More Missions
Movie Night
Tapping for Sleep and Anger
On Guard, Ready, Fence
Casualties of War
Stigma of Behavioral Health
Attack on Camp Nathan Smith
R&R and “Home” Again
December 2011
Happy Holidays
Welcome to 2012
Counting the Days
Loss
Moving On
Operation Slingshot
April 2012
The Handoff
Full Circle at KAF
Back in the US
Home
EFT at the SF Vet Center
About the Author
Acknowledgments