Rethinking PTSD, Trauma, and the Mental Health Industry
H. Nattanya Andersen : Flight Attendant Memoirist and Investigative Author
H. Nattanya Andersen is the author of Broken Wings and The PTSD & ADHD Fallacy series—works that challenge conventional explanations of post-traumatic stress, psychiatric labeling, and the global mental health industry.
Her writing is not theory from a distance. It is grounded in lived experience, primary-source research, and decades of investigation into how trauma is defined, treated, and often misunderstood.
These books are written for readers who are asking harder questions:
- Why do PTSD treatments so often fail?
- Who benefits from current diagnostic models?
- What happens when trauma is medicalized instead of understood?
What Makes These Books Different
Most books about PTSD focus on symptom management.
These books examine systemic causes.
Drawing on aviation history, military research, institutional psychiatry, and personal recovery, Andersen’s work explores how trauma narratives are shaped—politically, economically, and culturally—and how those narratives can entrench suffering instead of resolving it.
Key themes include:
- Medical misdiagnosis and over-pathologization
- The commercialization of trauma
- Self-directed recovery vs institutional dependency
- Historical origins of modern psychiatric models
- The difference between trauma, injury, and learned helplessness
Who These Books Are For
This work resonates most strongly with:
- Trauma survivors dissatisfied with conventional treatment paths
- Veterans and aviation professionals
- Clinicians, researchers, and historians willing to question orthodoxy
- Readers of investigative nonfiction and medical critique
- Anyone wary of one-size-fits-all mental health narratives
If you are looking for reassurance, slogans, or quick fixes—this is not that.
If you are looking for clarity, depth, and lived experience honesty, you’re in the right place.
Featured Works
A multi-volume investigation into how trauma, PTSD, and ADHD are framed, diagnosed, and monetized—challenging prevailing assumptions with historical documentation and lived evidence.
The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy
A Mental Health Industry Bonanza of Profit and Human Destruction
(Book 1)
Serving Evil
The PTSD & ADHD Fallacy, Book 2
More of the thought-provoking journey into one woman’s experience and extensive research into PTSD.
NEW IN 2026 – Micro-Volume eBooks from Book 1.
First Micro-Volume is now available on Amazon. Micro-volumes are thematically-grouped chapters to offer more digestible sized chunks of this substantial work.
Volume A – Only the Self Can Heal the Self
Nattanya’s Debut Memoir
Broken Wings
A Flight Attendant’s Journey (into PTSD)
A first-hand account of a flight attendant’s incident, PTSD diagnosis, and return-to-work fight, with practical insights for crews and passengers.
A Note on Responsibility and Healing
These books are written for educational & informational purposes and critical inquiry. They are strictly from the Author’s perspective and experience, and are not medical or healing advice. Each reader is advised to seek the best path for themselves and use their own best judgement about the systems and treatments that suit them.
What these books do offer is something increasingly rare:
- Context
- Intellectual autonomy
- Permission to question
- Respect for the reader’s intelligence
Explore the books.
Read the research.
Decide for yourself.