they diagnosed me with posttraumatic stress. i didn't seek help either.d i had to seek help. >> so, what we do is we have the person go over their memory, as if it were happening, again. but they are in a safe environment. >> so, i did that with therapists. i would have to talk myself through the situation over and over again. to lower my anxiety level and lower my adrenaline levels. >> if you can't engage a person using exclusive imagination, then you don't see the treatment effect because they're so walled off from their emotions. let me pop you into a city environment and jump into a market area. >> yeah, i could see you have the fruit, vegetable stands. all the trash in the street, which is pretty realistic. >> where virtual reality comes in, it basically delivers the context for your memory and the imagery, the sights, the sounds, the smells of being in iraq or afghanistan. >> like, i hear all these layers of sound and i hear the helicopter and the call to prayer. >> i really think the visual sets a stage or context, but the sound can really serve to

if we save the patient, they have to deal with many operations, icu care, post tau matt he -- posttraumatic stress. head injuries, disfiguring operations and long-term care and many, many other serious problems. we cannot forget the physical scars, but there's also emotional scars after they are injured. at san francisco general hospital a number of gunshot wounds has declined in recent years. in 2007 we cared for 381 shooting victims in our emergency department. 2011, the last year we have data on, that number is now 182 shooting victims. while this is a substantial drop, i submit to you that one is too many. these numbers represent the patients who are transported to the hospital, not the victims who died at the scene or do not come in for care. many people are killed from homicides, but suicide taking one's life with weapons is much more common in the united states. it is a silent killer since more than twice as many people die of suicide than homicide historically in the united states. there is an hep dim i can of violent crime committed with guns and is a serious public health problem

posttraumatic stress. he's saving lives by teaching troops to handle the horrors of war before they hit the battlefield. that is what earns him a spot on the next list. i'm dr. sanjay gupta, hope to see you back here next sunday. >>> it's 2:30 p.m. in the east, 1 11:30 a.m. on the west coast. these are the top stories we're following right now in the "cnn newsroom." >>> tragic news out of brazil. at least 233 people have died in an early morning fire in a crowded nightclub in the city of santa maria. college students were jammed inside celebrating the end of their summer vacation when the blaze broke out about 2:00 in the morning. let's go to rafael romo with the latest. rafael, how did this fire start? >> there was a concert and part of the concert included using pyrotechnics and apparently part of the initial investigation points to the fact that it might have been started that way. there was insulation, there was foam insulation on the ceiling and that might have been a possibility. now the problem is t

what is going on in people's brains, this is a mental condition, we are suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. i know that i am. i am missing my boy. dearly. and i need some closure, i don't have any. i'm tired of crying, i am tired of begging. if there is something that i can do, to help you i will. let me know. i mean, i have all of the names of the people that shot my son. i have them. i can come and give them to you. they are in his file. something needs to be done. get a subpoena, subpoena them. subpoena them. make them come to court and talk. that is all. >> thank you miss brown. >> any further public comment? >> hearing none, public comment is closed and line item. >> please call item number five. >> discussion of possible action to move the police commission's dark or no meeting day from the second wednesday of each month to the third wednesday of each month. action. >> commissioners, we added to this to agenda because we have taken the second wednesday of the month off, however one of the commissioners has the conflict with the democratic central committee. >> two act

if we save the patient, they have to deal with many operations, icu care, post tau matt he -- posttraumatic stress. head injuries, disfiguring operations and long-term care and many, many other serious problems. we cannot forget the physical scars, but there's also emotional scars after they are injured. at san francisco general pi

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so i have posttraumatic stress with anything having to do with "footloose."s like no, i won't do anything from that movie but i'll do "danger zone." >> jimmy: so you did "danger zone" with kenny loggins. >> which is a problem because the only lyric anybody remembers is "i went to the danger zone" and nobody remembers any of the other. he told me a great story. he said the lyrics are terrible. georgio, the big producer, didn't want to share lyric credit or pay any money so he gave the engineer $10 and said write the lyrics. absolutely true story. that's why they're awful. >> jimmy: what are the lyrics? i thought it was highway to the danger zone. i didn't realize it was i went to the danger zone. >> that's the chorus and that's the good part. that's what you want kenny loggins to sing. so i was stuck with the crap. burning down the highway -- >> jimmy: kenny loggins -- most people will not sing their karaoke songs in a karaoke situation. but kenny is right there for you. >> he's a trooper and he hasn't lost a step. he sounds great. >> jimmy: are you guys enjoy

. >> and you wonder where so many cases of posttraumatic stress disorder come from, that everything youd is wrong in this country when you're growing up you then either commit -- see others, were forced to cover or choose not to cover-up. today in our headlines, we just read this year, the worst year for suicides almost one a day, and that is just active-duty soldiers right now in the wars now. that is that even include the record number of veterans who kill themselves. >> that is right. one thing also to keep in mind about the vietnam-era veterans like jamie, this was largely draughty army -- draftee army. these are mostly teenage boys, 18, 19, 20 years old. today, some of these soldiers are a little older. anothere also written book called "the case for withdraw from afghanistan." what is that case? can you talk about having kerry and hagel now heading u.s. foreign policy, which is overseeing the longest war in u.s. history? >> if confirmed to. >> yes, if confirmed. >> i guess there are reasons to be hopeful. these men have seen combat. john kerry did speak out one time, seemed like h

with our female veterans coming home, having a hard time finding jobs, dealing with trauma, both posttraumatic stress and sexual trauma. we've done more since the president appointed the secretary than we have in a lot of years prior to that. i'm so thrilled that the secretary is staying on to continue the great work. >> reporter: a little news for us there, a little nugget. you're very close to the president. what do you think going into the second administration he needs to do in terms of, a, getting the troops home from afghanistan, and, b, providing the kinds of services that he talks about, because the state of veterans is so tough and poor in this country today? >> it's tough. i think we need to bring our troops home from afghanistan as quickly as possible but in a way that we don't have to send them back. then we need to have a good transition from the d.o.d. to the va so that when they leave the military they know where they're going. they don't just go home and sit in their house. they know i'm going to go to school or go into a job training program or they have a job lined up and may

i do have a little bit of concern with the amount of posttraumatic stress syndrome that we have withent that you want to do immediately what is going to protect your kid. so i don't want to say that should be off the table but i don't want to introduce more guns and more people with mental problems. >> caller: between that and training teachers to use weapons. come on. the whole thing is asinining. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: i don't understand the philosophy behind it. but i think there's a lot of out of work military people that could use some jobs if they are really gung ho on this. >> stephanie: right. and they are always talking about cutting government spending. so it's like where are you going to get that money? >> caller: exactly. the nra seems to be able to garner a lot of funds -- >> stephanie: yeah, why don't they pay for the guards then. there will be a way of coming to the table. we will pay for the armed guards for every school in the country. >> caller: exactly. >> stephanie: all right. thanks, honey. let's go to albert in tucson. hi, albert. >> caller: good morning

bill of rights for higher education, for appropriate treatment for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. as we all know, senator kerry has played a leading role in shaping american foreign policy for many years in his position on the foreign relations committee and as chair of that distinguished committee. as chair of that, he was instrumental in securing passage of the new start treaty, an arms control accord with russia that is helping to reduce the danger of nuclear proliferation. he has served as a trusted special envoy to afghanistan, sudan and pakistan at crucial moments. senator kerry advocated for democratic elections in the philippines. he was part of the delegation that uncovered the fraud that ultimately led to the removal of president ferdinand marcos. he was a strong proponent of u.s. action to end ethnic cleansing in kosovo and to impose sanctions on burma tied to human rights abuses. senator kerry has been a leader in promoting economic development and recovery in haiti, fighting global hiv-aids, supporting democracy and human dignity, and the advancement of huma

how many of those -- our troops come back with posttraumatic stress. maybe people will look into it and say, wait a second, this may be a tool against terrorism. host: that is bob. this is the lead from "the baltimore sun." back to the telethons. -- telephones. the line for independents. caller: thank you for taking my call. host: where are you from? caller: i am from pakistan. it is critical when we are looking at the whole context of the situation right now. a 600 page ridge they are taking a 4 million march in pakistan, they have cracked down and literally blocked for almost five days now, electricity, natural gas, everything is gone. trying to keep them away from protesting against what is happening within pakistan. host: are you still in touch with people from pakistan? caller: yes. host: what is their response? do they want to see the minutes of the numbers that we have now or would they like to see the role of the u.s. troops moved back or step down? caller: their interest -- if it is not stable one way or .nother it will be pulled back and push

i suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder. i have it winchester that i hunt deer with. i haven't old-style single action pistol -- i have an old style single-action pistol. i turned to anger very quickly. people with severe post traumatic stress -- host: we do give up your weapons voluntarily -- would you give up your weapons voluntarily? caller: yes, sir, i would. host: you still on them? caller: i have wondered about this. the second thing i wanted to know -- the obvious ignorance of people that they do not know what the second amendment even says. the second amendment -- i wish you would read it. it is short. it was set up for a regulated militia. you have to live by those rules. ask the people at waco how that worked out for them. stand by. we have weapons you did not believe anin. [indiscernible] for heaven sakes, people, wake up. read the second amendment. most people have not read it. host: that was mike in arkansas. guest: thank you for your service. i hope you consider the proper thing to do with your guns. he seemed insightful about the correct decision for yo

sleeping, having a lot of nightmares and just memories and flashes and they diagnosed me with posttraumaticning again but they are in a safe environment. >> they say it looks like a video game but when you put the goggles on, it brings you to the same scenario. >> you put on the sounds, the sound of wind. >> and we can blow stuff up. >> therapy has been effective. i was never a fan of prolonged exposure and that kind of thing because it's an uncomfortable thing. >> at its core, therapy has to induce some level of anxiety so that you're processing hard memories. i'm skip, clinical psychologist at the university of california institute for creative technologies. let's go. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing the all-new cadillac xts... another big night on the town, eh? ...and the return of life lived large. ♪ humans. even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. at liberty mutual insurance, we understand. that's why our auto policies come with accident forgiveness if you qualify, where your rates won't go up due to your first accident, and new

notice significant which are not brain injury, the invisible disease, the invisible room with posttraumatic stress. there's a lot of veterans coming home, suicide rate is astounding . there's not sufficient mental health capacity in the system memory doing everything to hire 78,000 votes in pa and the like, but the plaintiffs didn't have to to deal with this answer the question we asked was how to do that and that's going to take more time, but we think how to begin this process. the next question we asked was how do we prevent the vein of the existence of seven of the biggest cities in america and a lot of other people starts with the obvious proposition , creating a federal drug -- excuse me, a federal trafficking statute for guns. we have one for drugs, but there is no governance tests. as you point out how substantial bands are committed with weapons purchased outside your state or city. illinois, the guns recovered at crime scenes are purchased outside the state. in new york, 68%. the only way to stop this is a federal trafficking statute. we recommend to the president take on congress

so i guess i'm trying to tell that you people with severe posttraumatic stress, whether they're ex-militaryor not, should probably be disqualified from carrying a weapon. my second thing is -- host: before you go to your second thing, would you give up your weapons voluntarily? caller: yes, sir, i would. with the help of my neighbors, i would. host: have you thought about doing that? caller: yes, i have. host: but you still own them at this point. caller: yes, sir. i at night lay in bed and wonder about this about using them on my own self. the second thing i wanted to know was, the basis of this whole argument is the second amendment. if appalls me that the obvious ignorance of people that do not know what the second amendment even says. they just know what the n.r.a. tells them or their neighbor tells them. the second amendment, if you read it, i wish y'all would read it because it's very short, it was for a regulated militia. in school and in the military, i learned what regulated is. it's regulation. it's rules, you have to live by those rules. anybody who has a bunch of ar-15's and ak-