In 2003, Dan Hays recalled that when he was eight, his grandmother threatened to have him locked up in an insane asylum if he became a writer. She reinforced her prediction in hideous and abusive ways, which was the second source of his PTSD, and the origin of the writer's block which had frustrated him for years. "Healing the Writer - A Personal Account of Overcoming PTSD," Dan's second published book, describes the specifics of the process he went through to free himself from the abuse by his grandmother. He used any healing techniques which might help, including therapy, acupuncture, the...
In 2003, Dan Hays recalled that when he was eight, his grandmother threatened to have him locked up in an insane asylum if he became a writer. She rei...