Life Sentence
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143782177 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Intensely interesting. PTSD is a damning disorder and more" according to maxy. Intensely interesting. PTSD is a damning disorder and more needs to be done yo support the men and women suffering from it!. Amazing must read Amazing book. Identified with so much of what Simon went through and is going through. Brave man to put it all on paper but so thankful he did. Must read Kindle Customer Well written and painfully honest. Highlights the dire need for more help and support for survivers of PTSD and their families.
About the AuthorSimon Gillard was a police officer for fifteen years, before being invalided out of the force with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Libby lives in Sydney.. He is now an advocate for others with PTSD in the emergency services and community. She has most recently written Everything to Live For with Turia Pitt, Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant with Owen Beddall and The Widow with Nolan Duncan. New Zealand-born Libby Harkness has lived and worked as a journalist,
She has most recently written Everything to Live For with Turia Pitt, Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant with Owen Beddall and The Widow with Nolan Duncan. Libby lives in Sydney.. New Zealand-born Libby Harkness has lived and worked as a journalist, editor and writer in Australia for more than 40 years. Simon Gillard was a police officer for fifteen years, bef
They swim behind my eyelids; I am drowning in their terror. My heart is racing and I stare into the dark. He began as an optimistic young probationary constable with a great sense of humor and passion for the job. All the dead people I have to touch their legs, their arms, reach into their pockets, look into their unseeing eyes for clues." From the moment two police officers walked into his primary school to give a talk, Simon Gillard knew he wanted to be a policeman. Suicides, heart attacks, murders, car crashes. It was a dream that stayed with him right through high school, and as soon as he was old enough he applied to join the force. I fear the images – too many to count. He sought help but was encouraged to just "go back to work" and ended up making four attempts on his own life. Nights were the most difficult: he would shut his eyes only to be tormented by nightmares about missing young women, and schoolboys not much older than his own son, whose lives had been devastated. In this powerful memoir, Simon reveals the details of the cases he worked on, how the police force operates, and how one man’s life can spiral so out of control. "I’m awake again, shaking, sweating. I can’t close my eyes. But as his career began to build, so too did the number of cases he worked on, from high-profile