what got you involved in them posttraumatic stress disorder. i've been fascinated by this problem because of the true mendus number of people coming back from iraq and afghanistan is to made it one point six or one point seven million people suffering from this problem and no real good treatments out there are there early signs of busy or a spouse of someone's come home of this problem definitely bad sleep insomnia nightmares jumpiness easily triggered by very little things apparently flashbacks memories of being back on the battlefield and also sometimes a kind of numbing and withdrawal all of these are telltale signs of p.t.s.d. you are then not shot by the suicide statistic no i'm very saddened by it but given how much suffering these people endure it is not surprising they are studying the effects of trans and or meditation on this on this disorder what is the i remember doing shows on in years ago what is t.m. it's an easy practice to do you learn how to use a sound or a montrealer. and think that sounds twenty minutes twice a day while si

anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, you put them in a setting that's really ill equipped to deal with their needs. no training, often left in solitary confinement. >> gear you heard that comment from candace who says there are those in the community who think that we are too lenient and not worried about the victims on the flip side, the research says that youth are 36 times more likely to commit suicide in an adult facility than a juvenile facility. what's your response to the critics? >> as far as youth are concerned or young men who entered into the prison population, it doesn't seem too lenient for me, i'm at a maximum security prison where the chances of violence are taking place or you have it to you, defend yourself is extremely hard. in those kinds of settings it is extremely challenging. i will not say it is too leeb yent but i will recognize those who have been harmed and use violence that i think we as a people once we take responsibility for our actions and become accountable, then sky is the limit as far as rehabilitation is concerned. if we can reach that point i be

they say they have struggled to deal with their parent's posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, andire not to talk about what they went through. >> have my community to come back. even though there are a lot of struggles, it is still really beautiful to me, that's why i feel so strongly about it, because i don't want to feel like i'm losing my roots. >> reporter: roots that took hold in long beach nearly 60 years ago, from the first visit to the university in the 1950s, to the tens of thousands that fled the killing fields. long beach became an obvious choice. today it is home to some 50,000 cambodian residents. this is one of them. years later, cambodia town formal recognition as a landmark in 2007. >> we no longer refugee. we have a rich culture that we want to share, and then my generation or the next generation they are proud of. they are proud to be cam bodian americans. which they didn't have that before. >> reporter: these girls are taking it even further. it's an intricate dance older and younger generations emerging together from tragedy to see an ancient culture blossom in

casey people with very high rates of the anxiety llord posttraumatic stress in this sibling conflict and labor not talking to each other so now i am on a mission to improve the way that we die. there will always be suffering but i don't think we should be tear rise to think if we don't provide the perfect as we have failed somehow but never like to use the us eliminate the unnecessary suffering as a result of in essence in the 1960's we invented a panoply of life-saving devices. pacemakers, and dialysis, respirators, like a burst of creative and pensions. these were mostly intended to get someone over a brief temporary health crisis called the bridge technology but they became a bridge to nowhere because now they're used on people at the end of their life so people are sacrificing the possibility to have meaningful conversations prior to their death because they fight and toe the last minute the person who is dying is a prepared this is a total reversal of religious traditions up and tell me 200 the virtuous person of faith excepted the coming of death as god's will and prayed for pa

by the early '80s i lost dozens of friends and acquaintances and it is something that's like a posttraumatic stress syndrome losing person after person so when i first learned about crystal meth and what it was doing, in nattily terrified me but made me upset and they agree in part of the drive to get the story when i realize people on crystal meth there are higher rates of transmission with this bill mathematics the and the general population because when you're on the drug you feel powerball which you to do anything in nothing can hurt you and people were not using protection helping to spread the virus so that made me upset another reason i thought it was important to come out also because he was hiv-positive in part of that club and bar scene and is someone from my generation now we can live within there is treatment but back then it was a death sentence. so to see that correlation coming after the aids epidemic was almost as if i was seeing another wave of death and i remember the famous slogan for aids activist silence equals death it feels like the same thing. silence equals death. fe

to him it was similar to posttraumatic stress disorder. he was amazed at the effect that it had on people, especially scientists that have to do the same thing over and over again without knowing specifically what they're working on. one of the things they did in order to try and keep morale up because they did not want our role to fail because with that would mean is people would leave and people leaving affected production. it wanted to try and keep people as happy as possible. they created this mess recreation system. it grew almost overnight. sports teams for everything. this plant would play that plant. a rabbit breeders' club. you could go bowling almost any time of day or night. at 24 hours a roller rink. orchestras, anything you could think of. the idea was that when people had to work so hard they wanted to be able to play hard as well. and so a lot of the stories i hear from some of these people is how much dating there was because the average age as 27. they're all locked up behind a fence going to dances every now of the week.

it was something that what i hear it does many of my gay brothers experience was also almost a posttraumatic stress syndrome of the same person after person. when i first heard and first learned about chris elma and what it was doing, it not only terrified me, but he really made me upset and angry and it certainly was part of the drive for me to get the story out. when i realized people on crystal meth, okay, there are rates showing -- higher rates of transmission for hiv with crystal meth addicts than on the general population because when you're on the stroke me feel all powerful unlike you can do anything mse can hurt you philosopher not using any protection and is helping to spread the virus. that's really very upset. it was another reason i thought it was important to come out. particularly in this case because matt you was hiv-positive. he was involved in using mass. he was part of the scene, part of the club scene and are seen. someone from my generation, hiv and aids are something we can live within their street metaphor appeared back then there was literally a death sentence. so for

. >> was studying soldiers and posttraumatic stress and became fascinated with the resilience of those didn't have it. >> we came up with a series of factors that seemed to be prevalent in all different populations of people and all different kind of trauma. >> he says in disasters like 9/11 or hurricane sandy, people are more likely to weather the storm when they have strong social support, a strong community, and if there isn't one, real survivors will make their own, especially true, he found, among former pows. >> many of them were in solitary confinement for years and they weren't allowed to talk, so they developed a way of communicating by tapping on the wall and the analogy is, that everybody needs a tap code. a way of developing a support system, a, communicating with other people that are going to help them get through tough times. >> even in the toughest times, resilient powss shared something else, unshakable optimism. >> one of the pows told us we knew we were 8,000 miles away and nobody was going to come get us and we were being held by an enemy, but together, we felt we w

. >> reporter: both haunted by experiences and diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder.to the same place for treatment, k-9s for warriors. it's an exclusive program that rescues dogs from shelters and trains them to be service dogs for people suffering from ptsd. it's here in this four bedroom house that veterans learn to readjust to every day life with the help of a service dog. >> the dog makes me feel safe. when you're on the battle field, you have buddies, the guy to the left, your guy to the right. she's my partner. >> it's a win/win for both the dog and the warrior. >> reporter: 68-year-old sherry had the idea to start it. she notice that when her son was around dogs, he was back to his old self-cracking jokes, relaxed, happy. >> he felt comfortable around the dogs. it would take his mind off of what he had seen and been through. >> reporter: young wasn't sure what worked for brett would work for him, but today he credits this dog, whisky with saving his life. >> i was skeptical at first because i never had a dog. once i got the dog, about the second day, like a li

do you feel you suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder?finition ofl ptsd is an anxiety disorder associated with witnessing or expensing a traumatic event. -- or expensing a traumatic event. it is such a blanket term. some and people are like, you can't get ptsd from this or that. -- a widerely phenomenon that i think a lot of people realize. injury is more moral like think of it -- think how you would feel if you're part of something that you felt violated the constitution. i swore an oath. how do you feel -- you can't use .i obeyed orders," as an excuse it's "i obeyed the constitution regardless of lawful or unlawful ,"ders her c i was really unprepared for it. i tried to get out old couple times into a different job and was consistently told it is the needs of the air force come first and so i did it. i buckled down and i did it. i did the job. i did it as best i could because i was scared that someone would come in and they would not do it very well. i paid a spiritual and mental price for that. i think that is something that people rea

as someone who advocated for soldier suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder, i want to let his family know how dedicated he was to resigning extra resources to the thousands upon thousands of soldiers who returned from iraq and afghanistan who needed extra help with posttraumatic stress disorder. he was very kind to those of us who are concerned about breast cancer and women in the u.s. military who may have experienced breast cancer. and working with me at session, in fact, the last two sections, to provide -- >> gentlelady. >> and he worked with them in last two sessions, mr. speaker, and providing extra funding for ptsd, a center that is in houston, texas, but also dealing with additional research for triple negative breast cancer that might have an impact not only in the military population of women but also with women around the nation. bill is like that. always extending, always sharing. he have a social place in my heart because my mother is from st. petersburg florida, but i was that he should have a special place in the hearts of all americans because if you ever want

as someone who advocated for soldier suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder, i want to let his family know how dedicated he was to resigning extra resources to the thousands upon thousands of soldiers who returned from iraq and afghanistan who needed extra help with posttraumatic stress disorder. he was very kind to those of us who are concerned about breast cancer and women in the u.s. military who may have experienced breast cancer. me at session,h in fact, the last two sections, to provide -- >> digitally. >> -- gentlelady. >> and he worked with them in last two sections -- two sessions, mr. speaker, and providing extra funding for ptsd, a center that is in houston, texas, but also dealing with additional research for triple negative breast cancer that might have an impact not only in the military population of women but also with women around the nation. bill is like that. , alwaysxtending sharing. he have a social place in my heart because my mother is from st. petersburg florida, but i was that he should have a special place in the hearts of all americans because if you e

june trying to raise awareness for wounded service members and those with conditions like ptsd, posttraumatictress disorder. the town of occoquan will hold an arrival ceremony tonight. the mooneys plan to finish their journey to washington, d.c., in the morning. >>> 5:51 is our time right now. a nice weekend for a little bike ride through the district or at least the beginning of the weekend. >> and they should reopen the pools, too, i think. our temperatures feel more like august. it will continue and the flowers are responding, too. the fall flowers are still in full bloom around this photo taken and posted by one of our viewers. post your weather and nature photos, beautiful. looking like summer. also looking like fall with autumn colors showing up out of the mountainses and patchy fog especially around the blue ridge. some of the rural areas in virginia and into west virginia. some of the visibilities are down under a quarter of a mile. watch out for deer. it's deer collision season. temperatures in the 50s there. closer to washington near 60 at prince george's, fairfax, montgomery county

the health care that provided to millions of our veterans that have come out without limbs, with posttraumatic stress disorder and tbi, brain injuries, is because in 2009 congress passed a law that said we'll fund one year ahead the health care of our veterans. now, if that debt ceiling is broken, thomas, we will have up to 40% of our veterans thrown out of the va system, no longer being able to take care of their limbs. look, let me tell you what a taxi driver just told me as i was driving in here today. he said he brought up this topic that i was going to be on and he started to talk about the impact of our va because of the lack of governance in washington, d.c., with the shutdown. he said, you know, i served in vietnam and we veterans saw a lot of shit that the rest of common americans never saw, but it made me and my fellow veterans humble. i hope that at least something good comes out of this, that our congress members become humble and understanding that they're supposed to be of a government of, for and by the people. they are not supposed to be harming people, particularly veterans wh

. >> was studying soldiers and posttraumatic stress and became fascinated with the resilience of thoseho didn't have it. >> we came up with a series of factors that seemed to be prevalent in all different populations of people and all different kind of trauma. >> he says in disasters like 9/11 or hurricane sandy, people are more likely to weather the storm when they have strong social support, a strong community, and if there isn't one, real survivors will make their own, especially true, he found, among former pows. >> many of them were in solitary confinement for years and they weren't allowed to talk, so they developed a way of communicating by tapping on the wall and the analogy is, that everybody needs a tap code. a way of developing a support system, a, communicating with other people that are going to help them get through tough times. >> even in the toughest times, resilient powss shared something else, unshakable optimism. >> one of the pows told us we knew we were 8,000 miles away and nobody was going to come get us and we were being held by an enemy, but together, we felt we

as someone who advocated for soldiers suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder, i want to let his family know how dedicated he was to providing extra resources to the thousands upon thousands of soldiers who returned from iraq and afghanistan, who needed extra help with posttraumatic stress disorder. he was very kind to those of us who were concerned about breast cancer and women in the united states military who may have experienced breast cancer. and working with me this past session, in fact, the last two sessions, to provide -- ms. brown: i yield an additional minute to the gentlelady. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, another minute. ms. jackson lee: i thank the distinguished gentlelady from florida. he worked with me over the last two sessions, mr. speaker in providing extra funding for both posttraumatic stress disorder, a center that is in houston, texas, but also dealing with additional research for triple negative breast cancer that might have an impact not only in the military population of women, but also with women around the nation. bill was like -- if i mi