![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mother Jones: Was the topic of PTSD on your radar at all before the first Haiti trip? Was it something you thought about a lot? I recently spoke by phone with McClelland about how our knowledge of post-traumatic stress is evolving, what shocked her most about dealing with trauma, and how to define a badass: McClelland weaves these details into the telling of her own unexpected love story, the charming and jagged particulars of which left me, by the book’s end, expectedly exhausted. She unsparingly recounts her struggles to cope with the lingering effects of trauma: nightmares, sobbing fits, alcoholism. In her second book, Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story (out February 24), McClelland returns to terrain she has covered before to great acclaim and great criticism: herself-specifically, her battle with PTSD following a reporting trip to post-earthquake Haiti in 2010. They often wore me out, grammatically and emotionally, in the way that only intense work on difficult subjects can. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Īs Mother Jones‘ copy editor, I used to read the long, narrative features written by our former human rights reporter, Mac McClelland, many times over before they appeared in the magazine. ![]()
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