Ebook {Epub PDF} Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story by Mac McClelland

 · The themes in “Irritable Hearts” will be familiar to readers of a widely circulated essay that McClelland published in in which she first addressed her bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.  · Mac McClelland was a respected young journalist who artfully combined reporting from some of the world's bleakest spots with her own very human Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.  · Desperate, McClelland visited her old therapist, who told her that she seemed to be exhibiting symptoms of PTSD. McClelland told her therapist that sounded “absurd” and that PTSD was “for veterans”, not reporters, mere witnesses. Irritable Hearts is the story of what happens after this “absurd” diagnosis. It’s a memory of recovery, a thoughtful and well-researched record of one Reviews: 1.

"Irritable Hearts striking candor will win McClelland the empathy she deserves." - The New York Times Book ReviewA Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of "I had nightmares, flashbacks. I dissociated Changes in self-perception and hallucinations-those are some of my other symptoms. You are poison, I chanted silently to myself. And your poison is contagious."So begins Mac McClelland's powerful. Mac McClelland is an award-winning journalist and author of Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story and For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story From Burma's Never-Ending War. She's written for Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Reuters, New York, the New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, Matter, and Sunset, among other. Mac McClelland was a respected young journalist who artfully combined reporting from some of the world's bleakest spots with her own very human subjectivity. Irritable Heart: A PTSD Love Story.

The themes in “Irritable Hearts” will be familiar to readers of a widely circulated essay that McClelland published in in which she first addressed her PTSD. “That we are as strong as we are frail is the most profound of many truths rising out of Mac. "In Irritable Hearts, [McClelland] recounts her struggle with soul-baring candor, explaining not only her jarring symptoms, but also her fierce, unconventional attempts to cure herself." - Barnes and Noble "Irritable Hearts is a powerful memoir about a young journalist's painful battle with PTSD and her arduous road to recovery. But it is also a passionate and beautifully rendered love story.