Once a Warrior--Always a Warrior: Navigating The Transition From Combat To Home--Including Combat St

Being back home can be as difficult, if not more so, than the time spent serving in a combat zone. It's with this truth that Colonel Charles W. Hoge, MD, a leading advocate for eliminating the stigma of mental health care, presents Once a Warrior―Always a Warrior, a groundbreaking resource with essential new insights for anyone who has ever returned home from a war zone.

In clear practical language, Dr. Hoge explores the latest knowledge in combat stress, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), mTBI (mild traumatic brain injury), other physiological reactions to war, and their treatment options. Recognizing that warriors and family members both change during deployment, he helps them better understand each other's experience, especially living with enduring survival skills from the combat environment that are often viewed as “symptoms” back home. The heart of this book focuses on what's necessary to successfully navigate the transition―“LANDNAV” for the home front.

Once a Warrior―Always a Warrior shows how a warrior's knowledge and skills are vital for living at peace in an insane world.

• Love Our Vets: Restoring Hope for Families of Veterans with PTSD: 2nd Edition
• What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
• War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families
• Serving Military Families (Textbooks in Family Studies)
• Fields of Combat: Understanding PTSD among Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)
• The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War
• Warrior's Return: Restoring the Soul After War
• Combat Vet Don't Mean Crazy: Veteran Mental Health in Post-Military Life
• Head Space and Timing: Veteran Mental Health from a Combat Veteran Perspective