New member benefit
Associations and not-for-profits offer it as a new member benefit in their welcome packages, and as a conference or trade show hand-out.

Account Premium
Banks and credit unions offer book as a new account premium. Sure beats a toaster for your new customer — active duty personnel or veteran.

Great Gift Idea
...for active or returning troops; or for a veteran who has been contemplating a life review or life story, but was uncertain how to begin. Books are inexpensive and easy to ship domestically or overseas, will not spoil, are hard to damage, and show the recipient you are aware of a topic of interest specific to their needs. Thoughtful of you!
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Extension class
Continuing education and extension classes use it as a textbook and workbook (it's both!). And cost to students is much lower than traditional textbooks.

Get ideas out of your head and on paper
Sometimes just writing about your thoughts and experiences allows you to clear your head. You aren't abandoning these thoughts, just allowing yourself to return at a later time to address them.

Considering seeking professional help?
You're considering seeking professional help. You're also considering not seeking professional help. Well, what are your alternatives as you think about these options? Begin using this structured life review workbook to help you put some logic to your voice and your concerns. Later, if you decide to get that help, this will be a rich base from which you and your therapist can work from. But if you decide not to seek professional help, you still will have some great life review/life story accounts as you look toward moving on with your life as your own self-advocate.

'To speak is pain,
but silence too is pain'
...said Prometheus; but this is not true only for him. Sometimes you aren't sure whether you should confront certain thoughts. It might seem that to do so would invite unwanted feelings and possible trouble. But the flip side is that by avoiding painful thoughts altogether you may be masking their underlying cause. Now maybe you should seek some help for this, and maybe you shouldn't. In the meantime there is nothing wrong with acting as a self-advocate and spending some time capturing these ideas and stories in some way. Even if you would then prefer to forget them, at least you will have captured and controlled those thoughts.