The Struggle
Continues
By Paul & Natasha Fjelrad
At 10am on the 3rd of May, 2013, Paul walked into John's therapy room. The sense of fear was immediate and palpable. He was shaking, hadn't slept meaningfully for weeks, was barely able to function and in unbearable psychological and physical pain. However, this story of everything that had led up to this moment and what happened next, is being told from the other end of the therapist's couch. A first-person account of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the life that led to it and the challenges faced together by Paul and his daughter Natasha during the fight back.
This isn't a story of recovery or cure. This is learning to adapt and overcome from severe psychological injury and to accept that the struggle continues.
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“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
In the press
It seems quite strange to write about how much I enjoyed this book because obviously it's a true story about two real people's lives, but I did very much enjoy reading this book! It's a compelling read and from very early on I felt committed to reading it and wanted to know how it ended. A lot of this is down to the style of writing. The way the book is written from two perspectives (Paul and his daughter Natasha) is quite different to anything else I've read before and really adds something different to the exper…
Tom Davies — The Proper Mental Podcast
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