Stand To

<p>Stand To: Recognising Treating and Living with Military PTSD - Paperback Description</p><p>Contact. Stand to. The tour ends; the long war doesn't. I write this because I live with it-Complex PTSD dogging my heels since service-and I speak in our language: tempo dark humour pride and the silence that keeps too many of us isolated. This isn't theory. It's a field manual built from lived experience and hard-won support.</p><p>Built for serving personnel veterans and families in the blast radius <strong>Stand To</strong> strips the noise away and turns chaos into decisions you can act on today. Inside you'll find plain-English briefings checklists and short mission drills you can repeat under pressure-plus tools for partners and children-so you hold ground on bad days and consolidate gains on good ones.</p><p>You'll learn to recognise what's really happening-how trauma rewires the brain; why combat PTSD often differs from civilian trauma; where TBI complicates recovery; and how moral injury can spin your compass. Then you'll map triggers manage flashbacks and dissociation dial down hypervigilance and fight for sleep when the night turns hostile.</p><p>This manual transitions smoothly from understanding to action. Chapters cover: recognising PTSD in the ranks; the journey from shell shock to PTSD; brain changes under fire; combat vs civilian PTSD; TBI + PTSD; moral injury; triggers; flashbacks and dissociation; hypervigilance; sleep; anger guilt and survivor's logic; avoidance and numbness; how the body remembers; self-medication; culture and stigma; families in the blast radius; talking to children; work and purpose after the regiment; peer fire support; first-line treatments that work; medication-tools side-effects expectations; nervous-system body armour; faith meaning and repair; building your personal Trigger Map; the Household SOP; the Crisis Action Plan; digital discipline; After Action Reviews; setbacks; and living the long war well.</p><p>Every section concludes in the same way soldiers learn best: with a <strong>Veteran Checklist</strong> <strong>Family Support Actions</strong> <strong>Mission Drill</strong> and a <strong>UK care pathway pointer</strong>-linking you to real routes of support and clinical care. If you're suffering you're not alone: from your GP to Op COURAGE Combat Stress and veterans' services some people understand the culture and have your back. Reaching out isn't failure; it's a tactical decision.</p><p>No fluff. No romance. Just clear repeatable actions that bring you back to the present when memory tries to pull you under. Use it at home at work on the road-anywhere life goes loud. I can't promise easy. I can promise honesty precision and a route that holds under pressure-one deliberate ordinary day at a time.</p><p><em>For serving veteran and family readers who need a steady hand <strong>Stand To</strong> is your practical UK-grounded guide to recognising treating and living with military PTSD-written by someone who knows the weight and the way out.</em></p>