Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is classified as a subcategory of anxiety disorders, a stress response caused by a catastrophically traumatizing event that is outside the range of usual human experience. PTSD is what Lacy Johnson was diagnosed as having after experiencing her traumatizing incident. In Lacy M. Johnson’s memoir, The Other Side, Johnson recounts the terrifying story of being kidnapped and raped by her abusive partner and struggling to recover from the incident. Johnson describes to her readers of going through everyday life while being haunted by the memories of the man who she calls “The man I used to live with.” The only way to help Johnson would be by giving her the gift of forgetting her abuser. Forgetting the man she
