20% of those urning from crom bat. >> 58% of the cases of ptsd come from soldiers who are in the bottom 15% of mental and physical fitness, so the logic is that if we can raise the level of mental and physical fitness, we can prevent ptsd. >> dr. seligman designs seminars to teach soldiers to avoid having catastrophic thoughts. it is the same model he developed for middle schoolchildren. army generals refer to him as dr. happy. >> we teach people to cal bait their -- to cal bait their most catastrophic thinking, and to mitigate it with realistic thinking. >> fort hood, texas, is among those participating in the mental fitness program. retired major general bob scales pushed the army to create a soldier as psychologically strong as any of its weapons, but some ask is it too touchy feely to be taught in basic treeing? >> this is not about touchy feely. this is about innoculating our young men and women to the stresses of combat. >> and making them as mentally fit as they are physically fit as they leave basic training. at the pentagon, jennifer griffin, fox news. bret: we will meet two br

got to do a culture change within our military. >> reporter: he now speaks to other soldiers about ptsdtly at fort hood, texas. his message? that soldiers can and should reach out if they need help. >> soldiers have to take control themselves. it's not just, hey, everybody needs to take care of me. the soldier's got to take care of himself. >> reporter: as for the army program all active duty and reserve soldiers have to take a 170-question survey meant to identify potential mental and emotional problems and direct a soldier to counseling if needed. elaine quijano, cnn, washington. >> thank you. >>> banks, investment firms and car makers all received huge federal bailouts but what about the country's largest employers, small businesses? turns out pickings are slim for them. it's your money. it's your main street. plus, tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern we'll take you inside the deadly streets of chicago and some of the most dangerous neighborhoods there and talk to people who say they're gang bangers and they sell drugs and also people who are turning their lives around and the family membe

there is no way to save their herbert right suffered from ptsd does something in france made him crazye joined with blake and became the first wrote the first black musical on broadway duke ellington and cab calloway was a pallbearer at his funeral he died 1975. will be favored become district attorney of new york city and of borden -- paradyne connecticut. he was made honoraria mayor and spoke at the 1936 republican convention ever he was named as a possible vice presidential candidates. elected congressmen from dutchess county new york serve 19231945 bangko rosie advocated for a federal anti-launching a lot and said in his speech to be derelict of those colored soldiers who served under my command who paid the supreme sacrifice of the battlefields of france fighting to make the world safe for democracy by did not raise my voice and everything in my power to help pass federal and chairman she built in order to make america safe for the of table their families and sons. note federal and challenging law was passed. he died in 1991 at the age of 102 this is a graveyard the monument that

ptsd cases that are piling on by the day which leads to the backlock in the system. so i think a lot wonder why aren't more people coming forward and addressing these issues, in particular the head of the vmt a. alolong with the president of the united states. >> you're right. they all agreed that more needed to be done for a veteran. and many expressed frustration not just with the bureaucracy in washington but more people need to pay attention to the fact there are these two wars goinged on and while we do honor the fallen and those who die that many more come home injured, come home with traumatic braj injuries and we sometimes move on to other sumgs ant doend fieptd out they neat it. tack a like at this man who works at ft. brag, north carolina. here was his american merge to those across the country and what ee going on right now. >> i know that they are tough. i know they're strong. i have a hoard feeling for those that are over there. but i'm a marine and i will stand up for our chief of staff and our soldiers everywhere they go. >> you can see this came in th

they say he had ptsd. i don't know that he has a disorder because he missed a day of work and because became so anguished that he couldn't function so i would say he had ptsd and he had an incident where he had a flashbacks. i know there's so many wives whose hundredses had a flashbacks. even though this is a guy who's an intellectual. he eats rusty nails for breakfast and having that one flashback makes him feel vulnerable. there's that and then also honestly he kind of hates the strip club scene. but you were the cool guy. you weren't like -- i didn't discover some side of you that, you know, i was mortified by so it wasn't, you know, it doesn't reflect poorly in any way. i think most thinking, feeling men wouldn't know where to look if they went with his wife and it's a fairly typical response. what's startling to me is -- this is my second memoir. and the sheer volume and intensity of the responses from the other wives is blowing me away. i mean, i get women who say this book had me in tears and it has

is that those soldiers who committed atrocities tend to have the most chronic and severe cases of ptsdand i wonder whether that might somehow factor in to the difficulty with those people coming forward with getting reports that, you know, could substantiate, documents or might lead to documents. i guess i just wonder what their role of trauma is here, as you have been talking about, you know, needing to get outsiders to give us perspective on these matters. and the point that she makes there which is that we all have a need to forget. we can't keep, in front of our faces it's the sort of thing that is too overwhelming. we need in a sense a break from every once in a while there. i guess other to cut a separate point but in any case, the rule of chronic composition and producing difficulty for many of these people to talk with anybody, let alone to talk with investigative reporters who have dredged things up and can quite possibly make the symptoms worse. >> and i am not an expert on ptsd, but had read up on it on embarking on this. and there was a different pattern and interviewing pe

in particular, issues of mental health like suicide rates that have gone up among our military ptsd andwondering where they can help, how they can get support and finally, the military coming forward and talking about how new programs are going ton implemented within the arm any in particular. these are three websites that we are bond of, real warriors is one website that actually has a live chat that goes on on a regular basis. they have these outreach centers that you can dial into here and also a suicide prevention hotline. another one that we have admired next to realwarriors is newdirectionsinc.org. they are talk about assistance in obtaining benefits, housing and employment for our vets. as you know, we talked about this website, ptaps.org. they have a good brief camp for kids and a suicide survivors seminar. they do woon der full thing for the kids and families. three websites, real warriors, new directions and also taps. g taps.org. so i'm packing my own lunch now-- for less than $3. thanks to walmart. just two times a week saves my family over $500 a year. save money. live bett

life is still a constant battle with ptsd. and but it's a lot better.up to what the people of died couldn't. ow, ow! >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, lloydsville, pennsylvania. >>> some sad, breaking news to report here in the "cnn newsroom." one of our colleagues, robert novak, has died. he was a longtime host of cnn's "crossfire." he was struggling with brain cancer. cnn's tom foreman takes a look back at bob's career. >> reporter: bob novak was in high school when he got his first reporting job. he worked his way through several midwest newspapers and eventually landed in washington, d.c., where his dogged pursuit of leads and rapidly expanding list of contacts led to an early break from a competitor. rowland evans. >> it was a news column, six days a week. he couldn't do it himself. he told them. they told him to get a partner. i was then 31 years old. and that was the birth of the evans/novak column. >> reporter: they wrote "inside report" for 30 years, on everything from watergate to iran contra, the pair earned respect and fear from official washin

life is still a constant battle with ptsd.ive for the people i can. i'm trying to live up to what the people that died could have been. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, pennsylvania. >> all right. and tomorrow, we continue with our war at home series. i sat down with two teenage girls from california. both of their dads were deployed to afghanistan through the national guard. they felt very isolated in their school and came up with their own solution to their loneliness and now helping other girls dealing with those same challenges. >> look forward to seeing that. >>> coming up now, hurricane bill gaining strength out in the atlantic. the good news, it's still hundreds of miles from land, but the category two storm with winds of about 100 miles an hour could grow to be a major hurricane within a day or two. also on track to graze bermuda by the end of the week, not sure if it'll have an effect on the northeast. >>> the growing anger over taiwan's slow response to a typhoon that dumped 102 inches of rain has cost the foreign

if the returning soldier has an injury or ptsd.hey are no longer a crucial member of a team dealing with a life or death situation. many of them struggle with that and their families do too. >>> the health care reform battle moves from congress to communities across the united states. town hall meetings on the issue are growing angrier. is the outrage real? >>> former president bill clinton, is his successful mission to north korea the start of a higher pro he file in the obama administration? >>> new evidence that president obama isn't making headway selling health care to the american people. the public is split with 50% supporting and 45% opposing. those numbers are virtually unchanged since back in june. this helps explain why. the cnn opinion research corporation poll shows that 83% of americans are satisfied with the health care they now have. 74% say they are satisfied with the health insurance they have. opponents of health care reform are making their opinions heard loud and clear. we have seen some town hall meetings turn

-- the idea is you improve their mental and physical fitness, and you will avoid what is known as ptsdtraumatic stress disorder. shepard: how much of this is about, well, i do not know, positive thoughts? but it works. it is on a model that he built for middle school students. there is something else that makes this different. >> for the first time, people have cell phones, and they call home, and their white does not answer the telephone, and they think she is out having an affair, so it turns out that many of the anxiety/depression problems we have in afghanistan are not combat related, but they are related to what is going on on the home turf. >> this new kind of battlefield stress. shepard: jennifer griffin like that the pentagon. thanks. fox news is tracking h1n1, and they are speeding up the production of flu vaccines for the fall, when officials expect major outbreaks. we reported last night that the department of health and human services at expected 120 million doses to rise by the middle of october. not anymore. a major delayçç as decreased t to 45 million, so now, the gove

they say he had ptsd. i don't know that he has the disorder because he never missed a day of work and he never became so anguished that he couldn't function, so i would say he had post-traumatic stress and he did have an incident where there was a flashback. i know so many women who told me their husbands have had flashbacks so we don't go public with it. it makes them feel vulnerable. even though this is a guide is an intellectual, published academic, he its rusty nails for breakfast, he can do pushups on his fingertips, but just that one flashback and having that out there makes him vulnerable because soldiers are not used to letting people behind the game face because you're ready for everything. there's that and honestly he kind of hate the strip club scenes. like i don't want people to know, but i'm like your the cool guy. it's not some side if you that's more of fighting, so it doesn't reflect poorly on you in any way. i think most men wouldn't really know where to look if they went with their wives

. -- ptsd. i started a group for vietnam veterans back then. did not know what was going on with me. i got worried and the group look like it would help me. i disappeared for like three years. anyway, it wasn't until 1990 that was first diagnosed with ptsd. i have been on medication cents. i filed claims about five times. records from north carolina in which i was diagnosed as chronic, and i asked the service of the search, well, if i m chronic, why have on my claims been approved? their response to me was that the va does not know where i got it from. i filed again, even with the board of veterans review, but my own records somehow disappeared. that was in 2000. >> ok. we are going to work with you and try to figure that out. >> thank you. >> you might be prepared to come up to the microphone. c-span needs to be able to do what they are doing. >> hello. i had something similar to him, but mine is totally different. i was on two services, but they have no record of me. but they give me a paper. but i get medical care here. my question, i have a

center in philadelphia disclosed it gave at least 98 vet incorrect radiation doses for cancer, and then ptsd on the rise, suicide on the rise, and now this mistake. the va relates the statement say it is immediately reviewing the individual claim files for all the recipients of this letter to identify those who received the notification in error. can't our vets just catch a break? >>> diplomats were called, charges flying between iraq and syria over the deadly bombings in baghdad last week that killed more than 100 people. iraq recalled its ambassador from syria and demanded the syrian government hand over two suspects from the attack. it claims they are former members of the saddam hussein's ousted baath party. that group claimed responsibility for the attack. syria in turn ordered its ambassador home saying the iraqi claims were made up for political goals. >>> a developing story now in afghanistan. more than 30 civilians killed today in car bomb attacks in the southern city of kandahar. the city has been the target of several large taliban attacks in recent years. so far, no claim of resp

finally they are talking about suicide and ptsd and doing something about it. >> reporter: absolutelyght in war but learning how to come home. with suicide rates, drug use, alcohol use, all on the rise compounded by post-traumatic stress. the army has gun a new program to teach mental strength to the young troops. now, everybody will attend classes in what they call mental resi resilience, learning how to survive life's problems. life sometimes deals you a rotten hand and you have to go on and learn to live with it. the power of positive thinking. what we found most extraordinary when we set out to do this story is the woman leading the program. her name is brigadier rhonda core number. she was held as a pow, molested, two broken arms, a gunshot wound. talk about being tough, rhonda cornum is one tough, army general. she is trying to teach the rest of the troops to be the same. >> i apologize, barbara. we have to go over to chad. apparently, there is an earthquake that's happened in anchorage. what can you tell us? >> it is a 5.2 earthquake, only about 30 miles from the center of anch

not every soldier who deploys for combat comes back with ptsd.found it to be an enriching experience. but we are trying to do, it is all about resiliency. i want families who are experiencing difficult times, and they all are -- can you imagine the difficulties with a newly married family. we have marriage retreat and the strong bonds program. >> i want to thank both of you because the family support activities -- i spent many years in legal counseling. i have seen it advances through the family support organizations and the yellow ribbon campaigns. all of these are so helpful to families. so many of our young people, this will be a hallmark of their lives, to look back to them and let their families know about in the future. thing you both for -- thank you both for doing what you do. >> i just wanted to ask about the families of the soldiers and airmen and marines, are we supplying an additional kind of support to them, over and above what you would hope to be providing for at fort hood? >> yes, ma'am. engaged leaders know the support mets and t

become more sail iant in receipt years with -- recent years as you have more people returning with ptsd and other suicide issues, they're very important concerns. it takes a while for the allocation of funds and the hiring of personnel to sort of catch up in terms of the provision of services. the district court made a number of findings on the health care side that the v.h.a. implemented at the time of the trial, 80% of the initiatives in the strategic health care plan. and every medical center now has a suicide prevention coordinator and there's been a tremendous allocation of resources to getting medical care -- >> but, i understand as to that issue, those are not available at the local centers where most veterans get their services, right? you have to go to hospital -- >> there's an effort to increase the availability at the c-box as they're called, the local medical centers as well. again, the mental health strategic plan, and there's a difference between having initiatives and having the v.a. work with congress to obtain the funding to follow through fully and completely and have

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i file claims five times for ptsd. i recently went with my records from north carolina in which i was diagnosed as chronic, and i asked the service of the search, well, if i m chronic, why have on my claims been approved? their response to me was that the va does not know where i got it from. i filed again, even with the board of veterans review, but my own records somehow disappeared. that was in 2000. >> ok. we are going to work with you and try to figure that out. >> thank you. >> you might be prepared to come up to the microphone. c-span needs to be able to do what they are doing. >> hello. i had something similar to him, but mine is totally different. i was on two services, but they have no record of me. but they give me a paper. but i get medical care here. my question, i have a good primary physician, but it takes two months to three months to see him. >>, appear. >> c-span, you need this, right? you need this. talking to these mikes. >> we do see walking in emergencies the day they happen. so please contact us

i look up to john, you know, because, you know, he tells me that i shouldn't be ashamed of having ptsdldn't be ashamed to have problems. >> reporter: sergio suddenly finds another mentor, 60-year-old michael anderson, a fellow marine who served during vietnam. michael started writing poetry while he was in jail. >> as the bell tolls, i offer a salute to our fighting men in uniform, brave and resolute. >> reporter: the vets decided to collaborate. >> i already have a picture in my mind of what i want to paint for that poem. >> reporter: while this iraq and this vietnam vet are separated by generations, they are now joined by their art and their battle against the demons of homelessness, addiction, and combat duty. new directions says they're finding today's troubled young vets like sergio often already in prison, so they're trying to get them help as fast as they can so they don't wind up here. wolf? >> barbara starr in l.a. for us. thank you. what a story that is. >>> he lost his grandmother in the past year. now president obama is invoking the loss to make his case for health care ref

experienced by so many children in the aftermath of hurricane katrina increased the incidence of depression, ptsdrisk taking behavior and other potentially long-lasting behavioral and emotional effects. it is well known that children who grow up in poverty may be at even greater risk of developing mental health disorders and in new orleans, the slow pace of recovery and the recurring threat of hurricanes may further exacerbate their trauma. against this backdrop, we found persistent barriers to providing and obtaining mental health services, although federal grants are helping to address them. lack of mental health providers was identified as the number one barrier to providing services. the designation of the parrishes in the greater new orleans area as mental health professional shortage areas underscored this barrier and state data showed a large decrease in the number of psychiatrists and clinical social workers who received medicaid and c.h.i.p. reimbursement. to help address this shortage, funding from hersa and cmf provided incentives to almost 90 mental health professionals who either rel

i file claims five times for ptsd.i recently went with my records from north carolina in which i was diagnosed as chronic, and i asked the service of the search, well, if i m chronic, why have on my claims been approved? their response to me was that the va does not know where i got it from. i filed again, even with the board of veterans review, but my own records somehow disappeared. that was in 2000. >> ok. we are going to work with you and try to figure that out. >> thank you. >> you might be prepared to come up to the microphone. c-span needs to be able to do what they are doing. >> hello. i had something similar to him, but mine is totally different. i was on two services, but they have no record of me. but they give me a paper. but i get medical care here. my question, i have a good primary physician, but it takes two months to three months to see him. >>, appear. >> c-span, you need this, right? you need this. talking to these mikes. >> we do see walking in emergencies the day they happen. so please contact us a

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experienced by so many children in the aftermath of hurricane katrina increased the incidence of depression, ptsdrisk taking behavior and other potentially long-lasting behavioral and emotional effects. it is well known that children who grow up in poverty may be at even greater risk of developing mental health disorders and in new orleans, the slow pace of recovery and the recurring threat of hurricanes may further exacerbate their trauma. against this backdrop, we found persistent barriers to providing and obtaining mental health services, although federal grants are helping to address them. lack of mental health providers was identified as the number one barrier to providing services. the designation of the parrishes in the greater new orleans area as mental health professional shortage areas underscored this barrier and state data showed a large decrease in the number of psychiatrists and clinical social workers who received medicaid and c.h.i.p. reimbursement. to help address this shortage, funding from hersa and cmf provided incentives to almost 90 mental health professionals who either rel

experienced by so many children in the aftermath of hurricane katrina increased the incidence of depression, ptsd risk taking behavior and other potentially long-lasting behavioral and emotional effects. it is well known that children who grow up in poverty may be at even greater risk of developing mental health disorders and in new orleans, the slow pace of recovery and the recurring threat of hurricanes may further exacerbate their trauma. against this backdrop, we found persistent barriers to providing and obtaining mental health services, although federal grants are helping to address them. lack of mental health providers was identified as the number one barrier to providing services. the designation of the parrishes in the greater new orleans area as mental health professional shortage areas underscored this barrier and state data showed a large decrease in the number of psychiatrists and clinical social workers who received medicaid and c.h.i.p. reimbursement. to help address this shortage, funding from hersa and cmf provided incentives to almost 90 mental health professionals who either re

you know, because -- you know he tells me that i shouldn't be ashamed of having ptsd, i shouldn't be ashamed of problems. >> reporter: sergio finds another mentor, 60-year-old michael anderson, a fellow marine who served during vietnam. michael started writing poetry while he was in jail. >> as the bell tolls, i offer a salute, brave and resolute. >> reporter: the vets decided to collaborate. >> i have a picture in my mind for what i want to paint for that poem. while this iraq and vietnam vet are separated by generations, they are now joined by their art and their battle against the demons of homelessness, addiction, and combat duty. >> so we're seeing veterans who came home 40 years ago for vietnam reaching out to help the newest generation of veterans. and john, i have to tell you here in this hall behind me, the town hall will be conducted by arlen specter of pennsylvania and the secretary of the veterans affairs department. but there is a lot of anxiety down in that hall right now. a lot of staffers very nervous there could be disruptions and no one wants to see the picture of a