Author Spotlight: Velda Brotherton Writes About PTSD in Her Pulitzer Prize Nominated Novel Beyond The Moon
With Veterans Day upon us, Velda Brotherton's Pulitzer Prize nominated novel Beyond the Moon strikes a timely chord. 1985 - A wounded warrior home from nine years as a POW in Vietnam, a woman grief stricken over the loss of her husband. He touches her and she descends into his disturbed world where they wage a battle to bring him home from the horrors of that captivity. A love story you’ll never forget. Diaries of men serving in wars as long ago as 1,000 years spoke of suffering from symptoms that match those we identify today as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Many Civil War soldiers returned suffering from what was then known as nostalgia or soldier's heart. Because there was no treatment, some were sent to asylums, but most of these were closed down after the war. Veterans wandered the streets, many starved to death or froze because everyone thought they were crazy and dangerous and shunned them. Sadly, many homeless veterans today suffer from this ...