Sating the Preta: A Memoir About Emotional Abuse and Recovery from Complex PTSD

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In this new year, when it's time to reflect and renew ourselves, it may be helpful to think about whether or not you're a victim of emotional abuse and are suffering the pain of its consequences - Complex PTSD.

This book might help you identify causes and symptoms and where to go from here. I hope it can help you begin an important journey to recovery from the devastating damage of trauma.ok mi

From the book description:

Complex PTSD from emotional abuse is an unreported epidemic in the United States. Lily Scot's “Sating the Preta” reveals the intricacies of this disorder through a personal account written in terms easily understood by trauma victims and their loved ones.

According to Scot, in our increasingly anxious society, all of us are vulnerable to Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as more of us experience psychological trauma first and second hand. For most of us, these are not shocking or violent headline-creating incidents. They are subtle moments of terror in childhood that open us to risk and further emotional abuse in adulthood.

Out of this complex trauma we learn reactions and behaviors used in a psychotic merry-go-round of avoiding or confronting new terrors – Complex PTSD. Too many of us are the product of emotional abuse and Complex PTSD, and too many others its unwitting cause.

In “Sating the Preta: A memoir about Emotional Abuse and Recovery from Complex PTSD,” Scot illustrates how Complex PTSD develops through a personal story translating the dis

order into a treatable problem rather than the unrelieved craziness that victims feel and loved ones witness, setting them on a journey toward recovery, one perhaps similar to the transformation experienced by Scot.

This compelling memoir explores the first years of Scot's life from 1950 to 1980 - three decades of intense cultural change during which perilous and harmful as well as gratifying and amusing personal events inspire her erratic journey. Scot evolves her story through satisfying vignettes offering vibrant impressions of a poignant early childhood, a painful and silent adolescence, a young adulthood fraught with rage and self-destruction and finally an emerging maturity of compassion, forgiveness and remarkable intuition. She writes in an emotional, but not self-involved manner, her self-deprecating humor often as amusing as her observations are sharp and enduring.

This story also suggests that in these troubled times we be more accepting, forgiving and kinder in our judgment of what motivates those we meet. Their behavior may just be a reflection of the tremendous chaos fermenting in their soul from influences over which they had no control.