Why Cope When You Can Heal?: How Healthcare Heroes of COVID-19 Can Recover from PTSD

by Mark Goulston, Diana Hendel, Founder Of the Studer Group Quint Studer (Foreword)

Why Cope When You Can Heal? is an essential resource for doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other healthcare professionals—and the leaders who support them—as they navigate the traumatic stress they have experienced and continue to face.

COVID-19 has traumatized the world—and no group has been more impacted than frontline healthcare workers. They’ve worked without adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), witnessed mass death, and been forced to make choices that haunt them. Many have fallen ill, while others have worried endlessly about their own health and that of their loved ones.

Additionally, all of this is happening in the context of a divided nation, a struggling industry, and a “just get over it” culture that exacerbates the problems healthcare workers face, while minimizing their suffering. These factors have created the perfect storm for widespread stress, depression, anxiety, and hopelessness—and, increasingly, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Medical doctor and psychiatrist Mark Goulston shares practical, evidence-based techniques and treatments for managing traumatic stress that will fill you with hope and inspiration.

In Why Cope When You Can Heal?, you will

real-world accounts and experiences from frontline workers;an overview of treatment options; andexercises, tools, and tips that you can use today.This guide will help you—and those you love and support in the COVID-19 battle—begin the process of healing from the inside out and reconnect with the joys and rewards of career and life.

160 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2020

About the author

MARK GOULSTON, M.D., is a business psychiatrist and consultant, author of the bestselling Just Listen, and subject of the PBS special “Just Listen with Dr. Goulston.” He writes a Tribune syndicated career column; blogs for Fast Company, Business Insider, Huffington Post, and Psychology Today; and is featured frequently in major media including The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Newsweek, CNN, NPR, and Fox News.

Reviews

[Ariana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written, this book brings to light some of the sometimes invisible struggles of healthcare workers during a truly traumatic time: the Covid pandemic. An excellent summary of PTSD and PTSI with real world examples and simple, effective, empirical approaches to handling such situational trauma.

[Kimberly Barnes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why cope when you can heal presents the issues that healthcare workers have faced while dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Of everyone affected, the healthcare employees on the front line, have been dealing with the tragedies of COVID-19, the lack of appropriate protective equipment in the early days, the deaths of many, the isolation caused by the pandemic and the list goes on. The pandemic has created an untenable situation for many working in healthcare. They are now plagued with symptoms of anxiety, depression, loneliness, guilt, and stress. This book provides valuable information and resources about dealing with PTSD. Included are examples of experiences of other workers, and tools/tips that can be used to begin the healing process. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance review copy in exchange for my honest review.