Hope is the first dose : a treatment plan for recovering from trauma, tragedy, and other massive things /

Warren, W. Lee, 1969-

Hope is the first dose : a treatment plan for recovering from trauma, tragedy, and other massive things / W. Lee Warren, MD. - First edition. - xv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-272). Prologue: It's coming for you, but there's a plan -- Part one: When the thing happens that you never get over. Where on earth is hope? -- Un-holy week -- What color is today? -- Can it get any worse? -- A test dose -- Holding the light, feeling the darkness -- Part two: You choose how it changes you. The apogee of hopelessness -- The best-laid plans -- Extraordinarily ordinary -- Origami golden calf -- A little bit like hope -- Seems easier to die -- All in your hear -- Part three: Your choices will change your life. Data stories -- You can't have that -- Reanimation -- Data stories, part 2: gap theory -- Hope is a verb -- Memory, movement, and the science of happification -- The happification of hopeful souls -- Part four: Welcome to the self-brain surgery school. Lucky Chuck's last ride -- The punch line -- Choosing your treatment plan -- A controlled form of trauma -- There's no failure in prehab -- Understanding your brain on TMT -- Part five: Comfort care for terminal lives. The biopsy will change your mind -- Surgery and rehab will change your life -- Thoughts become things -- The hard work of wellness -- No old beaches -- Epilogue: The high stakes of happiness.

When the thing happens that you never get over -- You choose how it changes you -- Your choices will change your life -- Welcome to self- brain surgery school -- Comfort care for terminal lives.

"A neurosurgeon's powerful memoir of personal tragedy, grief, and recovery offers a roadmap to finding hope and even happiness when the worst happens, by placing trust in God"--

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Psychic trauma--Religious aspects--Christianity.


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