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All the Ghosts I Bring Home
Paperback
Biographies GeneralMedical ReferenceMental Health
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 17 2025
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nurses are trained to save lives. No one teaches them how to survive their own mind.
Christopher T. Perkins entered healthcare at seventeen, first as a CNA, where he learned how quickly life could change-and how little time there was to process what he witnessed.
Years later, working in a Level 1 trauma ER, crashes, overdoses, codes, and death became part of the job. To coworkers and patients, Christopher was the calm nurse people wanted in a crisis.
Inside, something very different was happening.
The cases followed him home. The losses accumulated. Depression deepened. PTSD took hold. And eventually, after years of carrying other people's emergencies, Christopher reached a point where surviving his own thoughts became the most urgent crisis of all.
Instead of disappearing into the silence so many healthcare workers know too well, he asked for help.
Therapy. Medication. Change. A move into critical care. And the difficult realization that caring for others does not make you immune to being injured by the work.
All the Ghosts I Bring Home is a deeply personal memoir about trauma, PTSD, depression, identity, and what happens when the person everyone depends on finally admits that he is struggling too.
This book is for:
- Nurses who have ever sat silently in the car after a shift.
- Healthcare workers who carry cases home long after the chart is closed.
- The people who love them and want to understand what this work can leave behind.
- Anyone who has ever mistaken struggling for weakness.
This is not a story about being fearless.
It is a story about being afraid, asking for help, and making one defiant choice:
To stay.
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