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Jo Watson Interviews Cathy Wield, Author of “Unshackled Mind”

Mad in America

Jo: Hi Cathy, thanks for joining me to talk about your new book Unshackled Mind: A Doctors Story of Trauma, Liberation and Healing. So by 2019, I was acutely aware of the importance of putting right my views which were already out in the public arena. Jo Watson, psychotherapist and founder of Drop the Disorder!

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Living on the Edge – Snapshots of Life with PTSD: The Wondrous Yellow Roses (Loss of Self)

The Art of Healing Trauma

This short story about a train trip shows how the many symptoms of PTSD combine to have a devastating impact to one’s Sense of Self. Losing a large percent of memory of one’s past is the equivalent of losing a large percent of one’s Sense of Self, identity, personality, etc. April 2009 – I had Severe PTSD.