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Jenni Schaefer, beloved best-selling author and self-help speaker, reveals her unexpected but harrowing battle with PTSD, while exploring the groundbreaking treatments that saved her.
At the height of her career as a motivational speaker and mental health advocate, Jenni Schaefer admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital. Overcome by feelings of anxiety, panic, and even rage, Jenni had no idea how she got there, and even worse, she felt like she had no way out. When her therapist gave her a diagnosis, those four letters would change her life for good?PTSD.
In Facing the Invisible Monster Jenni unravels her trauma with unflinching honesty, grit, and heart. From delving into the incident itself?rape at the hands of an abusive boyfriend?to navigating the wild west of modern day trauma treatment, this is Jenni Schaefer at her finest. By including original research about the condition and its treatments, she paints a new, fuller picture of PTSD that will shatter stigmas and right readers' misconceptions about trauma.
Accessible, honest, and full of inspiration, Facing the Invisible Monster is a beacon of hope for any of the millions of Americans coping with trauma and its devastating aftermath.