Explaining combat-related PTSD for ex-servicemen and their families

‘Many thanks for sending me your Survival Guide to combat related PTSD. The Guide really opened my eyes and hit me like an express train because it showed me what had been happening and how PTSD had destroyed my life. Once again, many thanks for your work. Hopefully your Guide will open a few people’s eyes to the problems that veterans are facing and for action to be taken to help the ever increasing number of PTSD sufferers. Keep up the good work.’

- Bosnia and Gulf War veteran

‘Thank you so much for the Guide. I’ve read it about five times – it’s dead on. If I had known about it before my court case, I wouldn’t be here now.’

- Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Falklands veteran

‘Jimmy Johnson is to be thanked and congratulated for producing such an admirably clear guide, not only on what PTSD means to a sufferer, but on what remedial action could and should be taken by those who are in a position to help veterans. ’

- General the Lord Ramsbotham GCB CBE formerly HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales

‘Only soldiers can talk to soldiers and understand. Thanks, there are a lot of hurt men out there who need help.’

- Veteran soldier

‘The Guide is very informative, I related to it. Thanks for letting me open up. I find it helps knowing that someone else knows. It feels very scary reading the Guide and relating it to myself but you are a lifeline.’

- Malaya and Northern Ireland veteran

‘Thanks for the Guide, I think it’s great and the first time I read it I thought you had wrote about my life, I could see so much of me in it.’

- Northern Ireland veteran

‘Many thanks for all you did for the young Para, Jimmy. He said, “It’s as if the guy can see inside my head.” That is what he said to me after he read your Survival Guide. Once again, my sincere thanks.’

- A prison ‘listener’, referring to an Iraq war veteran on suicide watch

‘Thanks for the Guide. I needed this information’

- Vietnam veteran