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Amber Courtot reviews #dealwithit and I piss off Dr FirstnameOnly

12 Apr 2018 · 2 min

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In this YouTube video, Amber Courtot provides a personal review of Dr. John A. King's book Deal With It. She explains that, although the book is not lengthy, she found it emotionally taxing and had to pause reading several times because the content was intense. Amber connects the material to her own life circumstances, noting that the book deepened her empathy and gave her a clearer understanding of what living with PTSD feels like, even though she is not personally struggling with the condition. She highlights the book’s clear, honest, and practical writing style, emphasizing that it is accessible to readers without a psychology background. Concluding, Amber enthusiastically recommends the book to anyone, especially those who know someone with PTSD, describing it as phenomenal.

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Hello, my name is Amber, and I just wanted to do a quick review of Dr. John King's book, Deal With It. This book took me a little while to get through, not because it's a long book, but because I had to dissect certain parts. I had to walk away from this book a couple of times just because some of the content is— it is. If you lived, you know, Uh-huh. Any form of normal life, it's just a lot to take in, hearing what people go through and have to deal with. And also, this book is very much interconnected with much of what I'm going through in my life right now. And something I will say, that this book is amazing even if you aren't struggling with PTSD, if you know somebody who is. It gave me so much empathy that I don't think I would have been capable of getting to that on my own. It opened my eyes, and it also helped give me a grasp of what it means to wake up and live your life with PTSD. It just— it put it in terms that really helped me Figure out how to cope being the person on the outside of it, watching it happen to someone else. You don't have to have a doctorate in psychology to understand this book. It's just coming from a very honest place, and it's very well done, very intelligently written, and so practical on so many levels. So thank you, Dr. King, and I would recommend this book to absolutely anyone. It was phenomenal. Thank you.