Why Cope When You Can Heal?

Why Cope When You Can Heal? is an essential resource for doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other healthcare professionalsand the leaders who support themas they navigate the traumatic stress they have experienced and continue to face. COVID-19 has traumatized the worldand no group has been more impacted than frontline healthcare workers. Theyve 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 hopelessnessand, 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 discover: real-world accounts and experiences from frontline workers; an overview of treatment options; and exercises, tools, and tips that you can use today. This guide will help youand those you love and support in the COVID-19 battlebegin the process of healing from the inside out and reconnect with the joys and rewards of career and life.