>> well, we've got to first understand a more -- more about posttraumatic stress and tbi. one of the things we've done is we've instituted resilience centers down range. i was just down range. >> down range means you were on the ground in afghanistan? >> on the ground in afghanistan and if you go to the east, if you go to the south and you see the resilience centers that we've established for soldiers who are in blasts -- >> what's a resilience center? >> a resilience center is where a soldier goes in the event he's in a blast. if he's in a vehicle that's damaged, if he's within 50 meters of a blast and he's outside if he's in a building with a blast or loses consciousness, that individual is evaluated. even if they pass that first evaluation and do not have a concussion they're held out of the fight for 24 hours. sometimes the symptoms of concussion don't display themselves for 24 hours. we give them a second evaluation and if they pass that, they, in fact, go back to duty. if they fail either one of those in that 24-hour period, they go to a resilience center where we re

i came back with a little posttraumatic stress disorder but i was tremendously open up and a lot of the guys in the platoon reported the same faint. they became emotional at the darndest things and i did too and they were puzzled. these are 20-year-old guys. they don't like to cry. they don't watch a movie and start tearing up. they are not used to that. is uncomfortable. what many of them said, fall trauma and the unpleasantness and they wish, they were moved by things just walking down the street. seeing a woman with her kid. things like that. i was having the same experience in my 40s. better late than never. i was changed in many ways but most of those ways were good. for me. the guy is being younger, we don't understand it. we think we are turning into girls. i had it more nuanced. did you have anything like that? >> i understand exactly what you are saying. i remember being surrounded and thinking this is it because we had been fighting. we were down to seven bullets each and it was looking very dicey because we had been hit three times and the next time they were going to have us

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the posttraumatic stress disorder. is the va edevoid handle this? they are dealing with lots of wounded iraq and afghanistan soldiers. so they are dealing with physical injuries and a tremendous stigma attached to acknowledging any kind ever mental illness in the military period. as the va muse forward and modernizes, this is important to look at. >> all right. from sexual assault to corporate sponsorship professional career women are over-mentored and under-sponsored. this, according to a new study by catalyst, finding women's lack of sponsors is part of the reason men outpace them up the corporate ladder. while mentors provide career guidance and advice, sponsors use their influence with executives to advocate for the mentee's promotion or higher salary. the study reveals women with senior-level mentors advanced further and earned more than women with less senior mentors. but even with a high-level mentor, women's pay and promotions still lag behind those of men. business experts say women should be open to having male mentors and women must be mo

and that their family's risk of posttraumatic stress was significantly less when a loved one died at home and not at the hospital. so, tonight, diane sawyer and dr. tim on that delicate and difficult conversation. >> reporter: you interviewed lois. what did you learn from the conversation with her? >> well, i was blown away by lois and her husband, their courage, their -- the way they could articulate their feelings. when you really get down to it, people are much more interested in the quality of life than the quantity of life, but our whole medical system is geared to prolong quantity. there's something about just keeping life going or death going at all costs. >> reporter: when you start to talk to people about end of life and decisions that have to be made, what's the first thing that comes to your mind? >> the first thing that comes to my mind is, how do we honor the wishes of the patient, and secondarily, their family, rather than follow the dictates, the instincts of our medical training to do more? that's hard for doctors to do. >> reporter: and then how do you broach that ex

. >> family members had a fivefold higher risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder if their lovedone died in the intensive care unit. >> reporter: according to one national survey, 80% of terminally ill patients prefer to live out their last days at home as opposed to a hospital. have you talked about what kind of treatment you might want at a certain point or not want? >> i expect that my quality of life that i treasure will be compromised at some point. my life has been full of wonderful things. and i'd like to have a few more. so while i'm still here, i'm going to do everything i can to really live. >> reporter: dr. timothy johnson, abc news, boston. >> so brave to share her story. and we hope you'll weigh in on this. the conversation begins on our website -- abcnews.com/worldnews. and we'll continue the conversation right here tomorrow night, diane sawyer, dr. tim and diane asks the doctor himself will he now address this issue with his own family. dr. tim's answer tomorrow night here. >>> when we come back tonight on "world news," remembering a motown great who at first kept

. >> reporter: family members say he had been on disability for posttraumatic stress disorder and suffered from depression. they say he didn't deserve to die. >> my dad was very wonder expfl everybody that knows my dad knows he was very helpful man. >> family members said they wish he gotten the help he needed and they're planning a private memorial service for him. >>> tonight, south san francisco police have released a sketch of a man who attacked a woman at a cal tran station. the victim says he grabbed her and as she struggled to get away, punched her in the face. >> she was describe as a latino, about 5'4" inches tall weighing 140 to 150 pounds. the vick tick was able to break free but lost her purse. the aattacker took some cash and ran away. >>> a very secret and fast trip to afghanistan after meeting the top, the president spoke to about 3500 military personnel at the air base. he toll them to expect success. >> one year ago, i ordered additional troops to serve in this country that was the staging ground for r the 9/111 attacks. all of those troops are now in place. thanks to your

. >> reporter: family members say he had been on disability for posttraumatic stress disorder and suffered from depression. they say he didn't deserve to die. >> my dad was very wonder expfl everybody that knows my dad knows he was very helpful man. >> family members said they wish he gotten the help he needed and they're planning a private memorial service for him. >>> tonight, south san francisco police have released a sketch of a man who attacked a woman at a cal tran station. the victim says he grabbed her and as she struggled to get away, punched her in the face. >> she was describe as a latino, about 5'4" inches tall weighing 140 to 150 pounds. the vick tick was able to break free but lost her purse. the aattacker took some cash and ran away. >>> a very secret and fast trip to afghanistan after meeting the top, the president spoke to about 3500 military personnel at the air base. he toll them to expect success. >> one year ago, i ordered additional troops to serve in this country that was the staging ground for r the 9/111 attacks. all of those troops are now in place. thanks to your

i was just wondering since heo refers to having posttraumatic stress syndrome, did he have in some there?nso that is mymn queiastion... thank you very much. >> guest: i am a pretty healthy sleeper. i did have a time in the first you're so that i covered iraq when i would wake up in the middle of the night when i was back home. i would wake up at home and have no idea where i was. that is probably the most terrifying thing, the psychological effect that i have suffered. coming out of bed at three in the morning in other darkness at home in columbia, south carolina and begin sprinting around my apartment because i had no idea where i was. i think my brain has adapted to doing this kind of work, and i don't suffer this doesn't things thin and more. >> host: you know they havehey some really good pasta inlly goi mogadishu. and then the expression on your parents base is rather priceless. why did you include that? t >> guest: i came home from somalia in late 2007 and crashee as i described before. i moved in with my parents. to undk they adverse struggle to understand what it waes that is was

in spite of the military's best efforts, suicide and posttraumatic stress rates continue to soar. and our ability to care for the wounded in severely overburdened. the ability of individual service members and their units to rest, recuperate, retain--retrain and re-equip themselves for redeployed is tretched beyond its limits. and in afghanistan our so-called ally, president karzai, is corrupt. the afghan military and the police are not reliability partners. and al qaeda is someplace else. a few weeks ago president obama told us that we are in afghanistan for at least another four years, maybe more. the question is, for what? why do we need to sacrifice more precious american lives? why do we need to continue to align ourselves with a crooked government that routinely commits fraud in elections? why aren't we instead using all of our resources to go after the terrorists that murdered so many of our civilians september 11? the republicans won back the majority of the house by promising to control spending and reduce the deficit. this war has already cost us over $450 billion. when