PTSD: Understanding and Overcoming it

By: Josh Graham

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Navigating Mental Health: PTSD
A Guide to Understanding, Healing, and Resilience

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is more than a diagnosis—it is an unseen weight that reshapes how people think, feel, and live. Whether born from combat, abuse, accidents, or everyday traumas, PTSD can leave individuals trapped between hypervigilance and numbness, haunted by memories yet cut off from life in the present.

In this compassionate yet clear-eyed guide, Navigating Mental Health: PTSD distils the latest insights from neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience into a resource for understanding and recovery. Moving beyond clinical jargon, it offers both an accessible map of how trauma alters the brain and body, and practical ways to begin the process of healing.

Alongside an exploration of the science and psychology of PTSD, you’ll discover:

• How trauma reshapes the nervous system and why symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares, and emotional numbing emerge.

• Why PTSD is not weakness but a survival response that can be understood—and rewired.

• The most effective therapeutic approaches, from EMDR and somatic experiencing to mindfulness and body-based practices.

• Stories and case examples that illustrate how people reclaim agency, rebuild trust, and rediscover meaning.

• Tools for everyday resilience, helping survivors ground themselves, manage triggers, and move toward post-traumatic growth.

Part science, part story, and part survival manual, this book provides a gateway into one of the most pressing mental health challenges of our time. It is written to guide, to support, and to remind readers that healing—though never linear—is always possible.

Navigating Mental Health: PTSD is designed for survivors, supporters, and professionals alike. It offers clarity without oversimplification, warmth without sentimentality, and practical hope grounded in evidence.

Basic book, not for people with PTSD

I listened to this book as someone recovering from PTSD. I thought it was well organized and gave a very basic rundown of the condition. I didn’t learn anything new, and there was nothing in the book about how to actually heal. As someone who has been living with PTSD for more than 10 years, there’s not much in this book for me.