ok to saythat it was to somebody, yeah, i have posttraumatic stress or, yes, i have anxiety. i have a problem i can't describe. it is not medical. ibuprofen won't take care of it. there something wrong. -- there is something wrong and i don't know what it is, but there is something wrong. with myas meeting up friends from vietnam, i was there doing tet. my tet brothers when i came back to united states, we all connected. it was ok for me to say to my tet brothers and they were not going to say it to me first. they were these macho men and they were west point graduates. they were not going to say if they had anything wrong having flashbacks or nightmares or anything like that. i remember i said to them, "you know what? i can't sleep anymore. maybe two hours, three hours. i keep waking up. it is not like i have bad dreams, i just can't sleep." amazingly, skeeter told me the same thing. john lang told me the same thing. they both passed now from agent orange. is the last of my vietnam brothers. i'm the sole living person left of that group. it took that. it took somebody else t

learnedd to care and i iat was ok to say to somebody have posttraumatic stress. problem that's i can describe. ibuprofen will take care of it. i don't know what it is. is something wrong. my brothers when i came back to the united states, we all connected and looked each other up. we were about to admit that there was anything wrong or having flashbacks and nightmares. i said i can't sleep anymore. i keep waking up. it's not that i have been dreams is just that i can't sleep. he told me the same thing. thingang told the same they both die from agent orange. the last of my vietnam brothers who was still around. so living person left of that unit. that for some of you say i can't sleep and for years we if i pickedn touch up the phone and call them names like my gosh it was just yesterday that this happened. i'd never been apart for that many years. this is the way it was with us. homecoming was horrendous. lang thesefor john west point graduates who would of west point graduates. , his great great grandfather west point graduate. a long line of military families. a

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. >> many suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder. the lyrics. >> the veterans must be drug and alcohol free. >> of any veteran -- >> suffered from an addiction. >> for years between the military, i was the person the people came to for help. whether it was a pride thing or just plain stupidity. i just cannot bring myself to do it. >> done a lot. >> i have the respect of my family members. bill: how do they get there? how can a viewer get the? >> two reasons. a lot of them might not want to be drug and alcohol free. the other is they are not aware of the program. until i specifically looked it up i didn't know programs like this were available. bill: viewers can call her go to the website. >> and they screen them. they have to want to make a change. ♪ >> an american girl made city -- history in the holy city of jerusalem. i've been in the hospitaleck. twenty three times since. i had nothing to give. we had nothing in the refrigerator. i would be dead and not sitting here right now if it wasn't for pond lehocky. moisture so i can get i

. >> yeah, ptsd is a term that means posttraumatic stress disorder, and military sexual trauma is a term's abbreviated mst, and so, it happens when someone is sexually assaulted in the military. they develop ptsd, but it has some different symptoms that ptsd you might develop from combat. it's, in some ways, more severe than combat ptsd, and yet it's more difficult sometimes to get those benefits that heath was talking about. >> so, heath, you feel like you were retaliated against, right? >> yes, ma'am, in more than one way. >> and how would you compare that retaliation to the assault? >> [ sighs ] it's actually worse. >> it was worse? >> i-i-it's more demeaning. when... you join the military, they're supposed to have your back, and when they don't have your back... it makes it worse. and then the v.a. -- they don't help you out. it makes it worse. so, you relive each moment over and over. so, each time they retaliate against you by... taking your benefits away or not allowing you to be seen, it reopens the wounds. >> mm, i'm so sorry. cacilia, we were talking off air about the retaliati

we need to do more especially with regard to mental health and mental illnesses, posttraumatic stressthe kind of things these veterans are dealing with. in the bills we are passing this week with regard to the heroin epidemic, there are programs in their that are geared toward helping veterans like the veterans court initiative where we can diverge that to someone who has a drug problem and commits a crime but instead of going to jail, they are diverted into programs. we are starting one in trumbull county and that's a great thing happening. the judges are helping us in the mahoney valley region with diversion programs. they are great alternatives. the vets should not be thrown into jail. they have a problem and i got that problem probably from serving our country. we want to make sure the folks with mental in the get the kind of treatment they need. host: we are talking about the defense spending bill, one portion as we noted earlier will call for women to register for the draft in 2018. it's a step toward the day that young americans of both genders can be subject to a draft. do you

involves changing your memories and it could can a huga step in treatment of phobias and even posttraumatic disorder. fox's abby hunts man explains how it works. >>reporter: fear could be a normal response to outside stimuli like this tarantula.ara some these can be debilitateing especially for those struggling with ptsd.tsd those are not as solid as you may think and can, in fact, be all ted. every time you retrieve a memory it gives you an opportunity to rewrite or add new informationew to that memory. it's this rewriting or reconsolidation that scientists are studying to t attach fear to memories. we can try to block the storage of the old memory, the restorage information that sort of changeh the way the memory feels. we can change it from somethingo that's really fearful torf something that's a little more useful. using mris researchers hope to o learn more about when a memory is vulnerable. a time that is ten minutes to mn six hours after recalling the memory.. ultimately the goal is to erase the lasting fears leaving thehe memory, but not the fear associated with it. research could b

. >> posttraumatic stress disorder i was in the military 11 years in the marine corp. i figured i've earned the right to smoke whatever i want to smoke. >> reporter: medical reasons or recreational, a smoke joints. >> as an old job with injuries and arthritis and everything, i can get oxycodone i don't want to do any of those things. >> smoking is the best option for people. >> happy mothers day. >> this mother daughter team traveled here from lehigh county. >> i have severe rheumatoid arthritis and to fiber myalgia and it's minority for patients who suffer chronic illnesses. >> we have to save our positions and people that want to do it recreationally. we need to stop prosecuting for victimless crimes. >> one pot smoking woman told us she never thought she'd see the day she can walk along a smoking a joint in front of a police officer and not get arrested. philadelphia, as you know does allow you a small you amount of marijuana, as for the new law, the health department has about six months to get initial regulations into place, governoring some 25 grower processors a

he has posttraumatic epilepsy and recently finished speech therapy. >> i wanted to maintain a sense ofimism and positivity. >> what do you think when you're presented with that stark fact that a couple of days or a week or so after your accident your family were faced with this monumental decision? do we try to keep him alive or do we say good-bye and they could have done either one and with equal love for you. >> that's very difficult to hear, you know, in my own head i was just in there thinking like i'm going to get better so i hope you guys, you know, meet me over there. >> so this is patrick's scan from about five days after his initial injury. >> the doctor consulted on patrick's case after that initial decision. >> in his case, the family was told they'd have to make a very serious decision here and -- >> yeah. >> it's reasonable when you look at the picture there. >> not unreasonable at all. this was a very big injury. >> what is it like for you to see the way he is now? >> it's invigorating. it's invigorating and also humbling because i can't stand there and tell you that this

the only way you can solve it and i think what the book does is it brings you as close to the posttraumatic stress disorder that is prevalent in the communities without having to be a victim of gun violence but also brings you as close to the prison experience without getting arrested and thrown in handcuffs. >> host: the whole thing you feel like every moment of your life you are right there with you, including in that very graphic scene that you say is the worst thing you've ever done. i'm curious what does it feel like to kill someone? does it make you feel powerful or hate yourself, what is that feeling like? >> guest: in the moment that it's happening, there's a multitude of feelings. i can tell you what i was feeling at the time was paranoia, fear, anger. was i it in covering to feel lie i could control that by firing first i think there was an element of empowerment to counter the fear and anger and paranoia. but ultimately it ended very sad and tragic when i realized what i had done and it was kin was kf outside of that momentary decision making process i was able to sit with the re

in many cases posttraumatic stress and depression thought to be the leading causes but and re, as a societyome? by not giving them the sense of belonging that they desperately need after returning from battlefields? that's the question that we're addressing in today's "lead read" the book is "tribe, on home coming and belonging" talk to the author, sebastian junger. thank you. you suggest the u.s. in some i whats needs to em ooh u native-american tribes to prevent ptsd. >> my book isn't focused on veterans it's focused on modern society. humans have an ancient predisposition preference for community, for close communal connection. when you lose that, as we have in modern society, everybody suffers. the suicide rate goes up, the depression rate goes up, child abuse, social ills go up with affluence, mow dernty. what we have in veterans one among many examples of a population group struggling psychologically because they're making the transition in the case of soldiers from the very, very close communal nature of society in a platoon at war from that to the alienation of modern society that a

posttraumatic stress disorder, moral injury has kind of been popular inlast year or two. i'm wondering if you address any of that or how you feel about it. one of the articles i read recently was talking about drone operators who are not actually in battle but have severe moral injury which incapacitates them. >> yes. moral injury. two minutes. i am a big proponent. it incorporates a incorporates a lot of what i mentioned where there has been an over hard science position of ptsd. moral injury speaks to the softer philosophical parts of it. in the original ptsd diagnosis creation it included what by any reasonable definition was a moral injury component which was more or less systematically excised by the va and scientists who found it inconvenient and messy and squishy and difficult to quantify. more or less shoved aside, and the strong push from 1980 until five or six years ago was toward a more behavioral science with a better term focus. what we're seeing now is the people are talking about it more. i am very supportive of that >> thank. >> thank you. >> that conclude

especially for those struggling with phobias or posttraumatic stress disorder. researchers say the memories are not as solid as you may think and can be altered. >> every time you retrieve a memory it gives you an opportunity to rewrite or add new information. >> it is this reconsolidation that scientists are studying to find ways to cure fear attached to memories. >> we try to block the storage of the old memory and the re- storage with drugs or we can introduce new information that changes the way the memory feels. we can change it from something that is give fearful that is neutral. >> researchers hope to learn more about what a memory is. they believe it believes -- falls between 10 hours after recalling the memory. the goal is to a race the fear attached to memories leaving the memory but not the fear. research could be key to treating ptsd. scientists now believe they have identified a gene that affects how fear memories are processed in the absence of this gene may be the key to new treatment. >> we can identify genes that cause ptsd and we can predict wh

we need to do more especially with regard to mental health and mental illnesses, posttraumatic stress, the kind of things these veterans are dealing with. in the bills we are passing this week with regard to the heroin epidemic, there are programs in their that are geared toward helping veterans like the veterans court initiative where we can diverge that to someone who has a drug problem and commits a crime but instead of going to jail, they are diverted into programs. we are starting one in trumbull county and that's a great thing happening. the judges are helping us in the mahoney valley region with diversion programs. they are great alternatives. the vets should not be thrown into jail. they have a problem and i got that problem probably from serving our country. we want to make sure the folks with mental in the get the kind of treatment they need. host: we are talking about the defense spending bill, one portion as we noted earlier will call for women to register for the draft in 2018. it's a step toward the day that young americans of both genders can be subject to a draft. do y

from what i understand, harold hempstead exactly suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder as a consequencethis event, even though it is june 23, will be for years, after his death. so this deeply affected him. i is always -- i've always given harold hempstead credit for maintaining his perseverance in trying to get the department of corrections of florida to open a case. i found out about darrin raney two days after it happened in a frantic phone call from a former coworker. i launched my own effort to get darrin raney justice, but it fell flat. one of my responses was to write my book called "getting away with murder," never actually imagining they could get away with murder. amy: explain what the shower is. the fact that he was burned on 90% of his body, and what harold hempstead heard being imprisoned right below the shower, what he heard that day. >> i know from working there that the water was extraordinarily high. you could not hold your hand under it for a split second before it burned. but to hear darrin raney beg --he kept saying, please, let me out, let me out, i won't do it no m

i think with the book does is it brings you as close to the posttraumatic stress disorder that is prevalentin inner-city communities without you being a victim of gun violence. it also brings you as close to the prison experience without you having to get arrested and and in up in jail. >> host: the whole thing is -- you like every moment of your life you feel like you are right there with you, including in that very horrific scene that you say is the worst thing that you have ever done. i'm just curious, what does it feel like to kill someone? does it make you feel powerful? does it make you hate yourself? what is that feeling like? >> host: in the moment that it is happening there is a multitude of feelings. i could tell you what eyes feeling at that time was paranoia, fear, anger, was it empowering to feel like i could control that fear by firing first? i think there is an element of empowerment there. to counter the fear, the anger in the paranoia. but ultimately, it ended very sad and tragic when i realized what i had done. i was outside that decision-making process i was able to bowl

. >> so much of this is about trauma and posttraumatic stress, whether abevent happens or not happens, it's how we cope, and this play feels so much about unpacking the ideas of how we have been hurt and how we deal with those hurts and how do we push those wounds into each other. blanch is coming from a war, it seems. stanley is coming from silarno and these wounded warriors are meeting in a living room, a bedroom. >> it makes me think a family is only as sick as the secret it keeps. the inability to talk about or express the pain and the trauma and the repression of all three of them from different capacities. and i think the running away from it i think is what the play -- it's like a tsunami that catches up with you and comes over you. you can't run, you know, and that's what the play is looking at. >> rose: there is a reference of stanley being april-like. why are you smiling, blanch? >> blanch refers to him as being like an april. >> rose: then a story of you looked at a video of silverbacks? >> well, sure. to turn himself into one. >> rose: why? (laughter) >> well, the play tou

problem because that's really wake you can solve it and i think the book brings you as close to the posttraumatic stress disorder similar in this communities without being a victim of gun violence, but also brings you as close to the prison experience without having to get arrested and go in handcuffs and end up in a sale. >> host: the whole thing is very vice role and you feel like every moment of your life you feel like you are right there with you including in that very horrific scene that uses the worst thing you've ever done. i'm curious what it feels like to kill someone. does it make you feel powerful or does it make you hate yourself, what is that feeling likely to see to in the moment in the moment it's happening, there is a multitude of feelings i can tell you what i was feeling at that time and it was paranoia, fear, fear, anger, was it in power seeing-- empowering to feel like i was in control to fire first? i think there was an element of empowerment there. ultimately, it ended very sad and tragic when i realized what i had done and that momentary decision-making process. i was able

one against heroin and opioid addiction, and another against posttraumatic stress disorder. heroin abuse touches our communities, our homes and our families in ways that have grave effects on everyday people and everyday lives. as heroin use has increased, police departments across this nation have seen a rapid rise in related crimes such as sex trafficking, domestic disputes, larceny, burglary and prostitution. all tied to heroin use. this week i'm honored to stand with my colleagues from both sides of the aisle to advance legislative solutions to this widespread and insidious crisis. as a member of representative guinta and kuster's bipartisan task force to combat heroin abuse and assist law enforcement efforts, we have worked tirelessly to find solutions. the legislation we present this week provides critical tools to medical personnel and law enforcement for stemming the flow of drugs and enhancing treatment options and available. these are real problems that need to be addressed through innovation, cooperation and thoughtful action. i am confident we can secure a better

his target and can go home to his family every night in the suburbs of las vegas, he developed posttraumaticss disorder from what he is doing. you can see pictures of the strike zone and between the time that the button is pushed to release the muscle and the missile deployed, it takes ten seconds. seconds. meanwhile, a woman and child walk in to the strike so and after doing this enough times, he got very, very ill. i wonder if that had anything to do with why it never made it into the big theaters. before launching its payload, the drone hovers above the area, it admits a buzzing sound buzzing sound that terrorizes communities. the drones were terrifying, observed a journalist david rhody, who was captured by the taliban in afghanistan in 2008 and later escaped. from the ground it is impossible to determine who or what they are tracking as they circle overhead. the buzz of a distant propeller is a constant reminder of imminent death. drones fire missiles that travel faster than the speed of sound. a drones victim never hears the missile that kills him. after the drone drops the bomb on the

. >> with the posttraumatic stress and suicide.ow, we wants to use mt. everest as a means of highlighting that. >> reporter: talking to cnn from high up in the mountain, harold earls was still reflecting about the dangers he and the team had just faced. >> we were on a massive face. like a chimney. and you climb down this rock about 28,000 feet, as i peer over this chimney, this step and look down. literally there are bodies that were piled up at the bottom. >> reporter: more than 200 climbers have died on mt. everest. most bodies are left on the ground it's just too difficult to retrieve them. talking from the military fight suffering from ptsd is the next part. >> inspiring, the mission carries on. >>> speaking of death defying. featuring the trip that children make. they are climbing shaky vine ladders up to a sheer face to get home from their classes. look at that, it's so item mish churning they only do that twice a month. a photographer tagged along after experiencing the so-called sky ladders for himself. he said it was an i

he was maimed for life but now climbing to benefit from posttraumatic stress disorder.. >> personally, i have lived with ptsd as have many of my soldiers with whom i've served. i'm here to try and help the american public realize that this is a very serious issue and we need to do everything that we can to address it. knowing that i'm here to climb mt. everest, it was pretty amazing and overwhelming actually to look up. wow, i'm going there. >> most of the foreseeable challenges i could have climbing with a prosthesis, i have been able to mitigate through experience and planning. i'm very proud of the work we've done raising awareness. while climbing this mountain. >> from inspiring to a story that might just creep you out a little bit. if you have a fear of spiders, maybe you want to turn away for this story for a moment. a flight from the caribbean from canada founding around the ca n cabin, creepy, crawly hairy stou stow aways. they were very unwelcome. >> reporter: it's the stuff horror films of made are. stuck on a plane with tarantulas on the loose but imagine liv

funding necessary to create the pfc joseph dwire program, a program for veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. from mount sinai, new york, he served in iraq and received recognition for a november that rent vital showing him createdling an iraqi boy while his unit was fighting up to baghdad. sadly, after returning home and struggling with ptsd, he died in 2008. created in his honor the dwire program was initially launched in the counties of suffolk, jefferson, saratoga. since 2013, the program has expanded to over a dozen counties across new york. earlier this year i introduced bipartisan legislation in congress, h.r. 4513, that will expand the dwire program on a national level so that every veteran in the u.s. eventually has access to pier-to-pier support group this. bill has strong bipartisan support, including the entire long island congressional delegation. i will continue working together with them and others in the fight to expand the program. additionally, on working closely with the medical center and v.a., i secured a health care facility fo

democracy and i think that a lot of people across the united states are suffering from a form of posttraumatic stress disorder from the economic collapse of 2008. most people, most americans, not all, but most americans have not really fully recovered from that disaster, either financially or emotionally. and the unconditional bailout of wall street, while leaving all of the rest of americans to fend for themselves, is something that i think was a revelation for even those people who were not paying attention to politics in our country. i once calculated that the amount of money that the federal government handed over to financial corporations in the aftermath as a part of the bailout could have easily paid off every residential mortgage in the country. but instead, instead, it was handed, unconditionally, to a bunch of banks and insurance companies. so there's a disruption of the current status quo under way in our political or electoral campaigns. it's aided by the democratization of communications, technologies that make it easier for people to communicate and enhance people's creativity. b

democracy and i think that a lot of people across the united states are suffering from a form of posttraumaticess disorder from the economic collapse of 2008. most people, most americans, not all, but most americans have not really fully recovered from that disaster, either financially or emotionally. and the unconditional bailout of wall street, while leaving all of the rest of americans to fend for themselves, is something that i think was a revelation for even those people who were not paying attention to politics in our country. i once calculated that the amount of money that the federal government handed over to financial corporations in the aftermath as a part of the bailout could have easily paid off every residential mortgage in the country. but instead, instead, it was handed, unconditionally, to a bunch of banks and insurance companies. so there's a disruption of the current status quo under way in our political or electoral campaigns. it's aided by the democratization of communications, technologies that make it easier for people to communicate and enhance people's creativity. but t

they're more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and other posttraumatic disorders. the standards in this bill mirror existing national requirements for nontribal foster care placements, ensuring that tribal children receive care at least equal to that and the protections afforded to nontribal children. it's bipartisan, as you can tell. it's noncontroversial, as you can tell. it was reported out of natural resources committee by unanimous consent both this congress and the last congress. but i want to add this word of thanks to other folks who were very helpful. i want to thank the national indian child welfare association, the national congress of indian -- the national congress on american indians, the bureau of indian affairs. the department of homeland security all of whom provided insights and suggestions for this bill. their counsel proved valuable in providing the flexibility to the tribes without hampering -- stepping on their sovereignty so they could transition to these uniformed standards and help save perhaps many, many lives on their reservations. with t

we need to do more especially with regard to mental health and mental illnesses, posttraumatic stress, the kind of things these veterans are dealing with. in the bills we are passing this week with regard to the heroin epidemic, there are programs in their that are geared toward helping veterans like the veterans court initiative where we can diverge that to someone who has a drug problem and commits a crime but instead of going to jail, they are diverted into programs. we are starting one in trumbull county and that's a great thing happening. the judges are helping us in the mahoney valley region with diversion programs. they are great alternatives. the vets should not be thrown into jail. they have a problem and i got that problem probably from serving our country. we want to make sure the folks with mental in the get the kind of treatment they need. host: we are talking about the defense spending bill, one portion as we noted earlier will call for women to register for the draft in 2018. it's a step toward the day that young americans of both genders can be subject to a draft. do y

. >>> the number of american veterans living with posttraumatic stress disorder is staggering.ems, so many others don't get treatment for the problem. you have so many veterans, literally tens an tens of thousands coming back from iraq and afghanistan, and we haven't figured out how to help them reintegrate into society. who is to blame. best selling author tackles this issue in his new book, called "tribe on homecoming and belonging." great to have you here. something i've never done before, crit sidicize criticize. this should be three books. there is so much we need to understand, from your experience out in the field, spending so much close contact time with these men and women. and yet, these overlays. how do we function as a society? what works for us and what doesn't. why. what do you want people to take way from this book? >> the last section is about veterans and ptsd, but more p d broadly, we're really drawn to close cohesive tribal society. we have a phase, going native, right. people are drawn to communal exist tans that is close with other people. one thing i was f