a category of psychiatric disorder category involving intrusive syndrome like flashbacks and hypervigilanceyou were expecting an attack at any minute or you feel numb or nothing. there's about 18 different symptoms but those are the three basic symptom areas and the intrusive symptoms that concludes my prayers and flashbacks, hypervigilance and just being totally angry and waiting for an attacker those are how i understand it but you have to understand it is a long story but it was invented basically in 1980 but has a history that extends all the way back in all of human history. the gentle man that wrote this for the buck finds it -- it is in some ways kind of an amoral condition but it is to be in the culture of the flashbacks. civil war veterans didn't have flashbacks. they were haunted so there was more of a supernatural reflection prior. it kind of grew out of the culture in the 1970s because that's where it came from in the movement. it seems like we've gotten away from the point where we think about the cost of people going to the war they don't take that into consideration. obviousl

but those are the three basic symptom areas, intrusive systems like nightmares and flashbacks, hypervigilance, just totally angry and waiting forren attacker, and then being numbed out. that's how i understand it. understand it's a long story, but ptsd was invented, basically in 1980, but has a history that extends all the way back, you know, in all of human history, you know, in the gentleman who wrote the forward for her book, finds it in the odyssey. it is common, but it tends to be inflected by the culture. flashbacking. civil war veterans did not have flashbacks, but haunted by ghosts. there was a supernatural inflexion to it prior invention of film and television. flashbacks as we call them grew out of the film culture and culture of the 1970s. it came from the antiwar movement in the while. >> what do you think of the fact we have gotten away from the point where they think of the human cost of people going to war? they don't take that into consideration. they, you know, people involved with wars, obviously, were unavoidable, and i remember growing up with the baby sitter whose husband

and being sort of really spring loaded, walking around very spring loaded, very hypervigilant. and that would give me a lot of information to explain some of this behavior. >> something which struck me, though, officials say they served in iraq in 2011, he was now in the process of being evaluated if he was, in fact, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. that seems like an awfully long process. an awfully long time here, doesn't it? >> it does. but you never know when he presented with symptoms. a lot of times with ptsd you can have a delayed onset. in fact, you can't diagnose ptsd until it's been a month of symptoms and often times it's six months or a year that people have the actual symptoms of ptsd and also in the military, listen, we have limited resources for treatment and it's very easy for people to say, hey, i have ptsd but there's a lot of consequences and a lot of benefits that come with that. so a lot of times the process to diagnosis it is much more deliberate than anxiety or depression. >> one thing which i think we should point out here, making this conn