ptsd is really specific. it's essentially like a memory unable to suppress art you are avoiding a traumatic memory and it is causing bad things to happen in your life. has a lot of really proper treatments that all involve exposure to come in some ways, that traumatic event, whether talking about or writing about or even going through the military now has essentially like a virtual reality, go through the streets of iraq type of thing, that will help you dead in your abnormal response to that memory. but there are different things obviously we are more complex than that, and when johnny comes home different, it's not that, you know, he hides under the bed when he hears a loud noise. shame, guilt, depression. i like to describe it this way, i assume that almost everybody in this room went to college. think of yourself the day that you got there, freshman year, and what a fool you were and so innocent. and then think of all the formative expenses you had we learned, he made mistakes, you may different community

clinic director says no one knows the number of ptsd victims for certain because many veterans refuse to acknowledge it. >> it doesn't bode well for their career if they're in any way seen as mentally unstable. >> reporter: those who have studied the issue say moral wouldn'ting is especially troubling around recent vets because so many served more than one tour of duty. ed tick operates soldiers heart for stricken veterans and says they aren't the only ones suffering. >> 20% of active duty troops and as much as 40% of national guardsmen and reserves are coming back with ptsd. these are astronomical numbers and we could go through substance, divorce, child abuse, homicide, imprisons populations. so they are really hurting. >> reporter: the justice department estimates nearly a quarter of a million veterans of wars dating back to vietnam are serving time behind bars. t"the new york times" found 121 cases in which iraq and afghan veterans committed murder after their return from war. only a few had been screened for mental health problems and unlike many civilian criminals, the overwhelm

ptsd is really specific.s essentially a memory dysfunction, where you are unable to surprise or you are avoiding reminders of a dramatic memory and is causing bad things to happen in your life. that has a lot of really promising treatment at all involved exposure to in some ways that germanic event where there is talking about it or writing about it or even going to the military now has essentially a virtual reality go through the streets of iraq types of things. i will help you dead in your abnormal wrist onto the memory. but there are different things obviously that are more complex than that. and when johnny comes some different, it's not just that he hides under the bed when he hears a loud noise. shame, guilt, depression. i'm trying to describe it this way. we assume almost everybody in this room at college. to give yourself the day that you got their freshman year and what a fool you were so innocent and think about the formative experiences where you learn, make mistakes, met new friends, you grew and

. >> reporter: mike says talk therapy and support groups helped him cope his ptsd but he found the most effective treatment for free thanks to christina madlener. >> this was definitely a needed service. >> reporter: she is a walnut creek licensed marriage and farmly therapist who treats ptsd with a new powerful therapy therapy, eye movement desensitization and processing or emdr. >> it allows the brain to reprocess a traumatic experience in a way that neutralizes it. >> reporter: she was already using emdr in her practice but started treating veterans after reading an article about an iraq war veteran who committed suicide. >> they had no hope for help. and i don't want that in my community. >> reporter: and christina learned that local veterans could not get affordable emdr treatment even though it's been approved by the department of defense and veterans affairs. so in 2008, she founded the nonprofit, veterans resource, that offers emdr treatments free for veterans with ptsd. >> what do you want to work on today, patrick? >> we need something for road rage. >> reporter: as her patien

my kid, has severe ptsd. unless we can heal the wounds. it's not just on the streets of sunnydale. >> yes. the family, what makes up a family, parents children. ultimately, we have to also deal with our families who have their children who are placed with these acronyms over their head that follows them all through their lives. when working with the child. not only are we working with the families and their friends and the places they go before they get home. so the ultimate thing is building that family unit. i was going to run to that. life goes on. we all have a duty not just to the child. but to the family. because the child comes from a family and most the children that we're working with. the families are broken. the homes are broken. so they lived through this years and years. the parents have lived through broken families. >> i do want to say, we have to start with the kids. the kids are actually bring the parents. when the programs are working, then when you put on an event, the kid says, you have to go to this. if you don't come,

. >> reporter: it helped him cope with his ptsd.e most effective treatment for free thanks to christina madlynner. >> this is definitely a service that we need. >> reporter: she is a licensed therapist who treats ptsd. eye movement d esensitive. >> it allows the brain a way to use it. >> reporter: she started treating veterans after reading a war about an iraq war vat ran -- veteran that committed suicide. >> that means that there is no hope. no hope that they had anything left. i don't want that in my community. >> reporter: local veterans could not get affordable emdf treatment even though it has been approved by the department of defense and veteran's affairs. so in 2008 she founded the non- profit that offers veterans resources pro bono for veterans with. tsd. >> what do you want to work on? >> something with rage. >> as the patients talk about their issues they match the vibrations to tabs under their legs. >> unlike talk their, the treatment stimulates both sides of the brain to ease the stress. >> and this tick tick tick tick

his family said he was suffering from ptsd. at least 17 people have died in brazil while taking part in a street parade. they were electrocuted. the fireworks brought a power cable down on a party of crowd -- a crowd of partygoers. talks are beginning in ireland to put together a new coalition government. in last week's general election, the opposition won the most seats, but was short of the overall majority. enny looks almost certain to be prime minister. a judge told eunice and owen jones that accord takes precedence over the religious in its adoption. puzzling for new ways to engage with part of the world shifting at baffling speed. in israel, anxiety is easily the dominant reaction. until a couple of months ago, egypt was considered a safe lra. hawes and darth change that. -- was considered a safe ally. hosni mubarak change that. >> there are no minefields' here, and a tank battalions, just the odd watch tower. israel has not had to worry about this border for more than 30 years. but now suddenly, israel is worried. mubara

my partner has ptsd from bedbugs. there are ways of preventing them from getting on your bed it by putting [unintelligible] that prevents them from crawling up the bed, but they will crawl up the walls and drops themselves down on the bed if you have a ways from preventing them from getting up on the bed. dph or sfhot said to me, too bad, deal with it yourself. the problem is also with dph, having these master tenants and then reporting to themselves of their own infestation problems. thank you. supervisor kim: if you would not mind e-mail in me the youtube video, thank you. >> i live in a six-unit building on nob hill. about one year ago, a neighbor hill and i started getting bitten. you can imagine why. we notified our landlord three different times by three different means and he did not respond. under the wise tutelage of the housing rights committee, i wrote him a certified letter which made him very angry. i forgot to mention that we spent hundreds of dollars trying to eradicate the problem of our own because we

. >> probably like a lot of people in the audience i have a form of ptsd rich every 10 united states starts another war, i get profoundly depressed.r i also get to active. first depression than the activity come a dayult alternate or they are simultaneous. 1985 i became aware united states was doing the same thing in central america that we have been doing inand vietnam and indochina. i set out to write a book on vietnam i studied the war and thought about it and what did i know from being in the movement that was quite a lot? and at some point* in thet process of realized nobody wanted in as say.a they wanted a personalrs story. i wrote that in the '80s.ati however i was not satisfied because a friend of mine said the four year-oldbe always beats up on the 20ry year-old so i put the book away for 15 years. then 2003 the united states started another war and i thought that this time the, movie came out called the weather underground and i was featured in the movie oddly enough with some strange coincidence that these would happen together and the first time i gave an interview 1999.

if you'll recall, agent orange, gulf war illness, combat ptsd were some of the decisions we took care of and at the same time watched the injuries and illnesses from the current conflicts grow significantly. these numbers will continue to rise for many years, maybe even decades, after the last american combatant comes home from iraq and afghanistan. you understand this is reality. this is reality. you have all lived it, and we have to ensure that the lessons of the past aren't revisited. when the last combatant comes home, v.a.'s requirements are still going to be building and we look for your help and support and insights on how to do our jobs. v.a. is a large organization with a correspondingly large budget and diverse and complex mission. we provide healthcare, disability benefits, pensions, home loans, life insurance -- life insurance -- educational assistance, and we run the largest -- the nation's largest cemetery system, which, by the way, has outperformed every other enterprise in this country for the past decade, public or private, non-profit or profit. so some ask, why is v.

my last poster, this absolutely handsome couple, the marine, worn out with ptsd, his beautiful wife katy and his little boy, last year at camp lejeune, he pulls his car over in the middle of the day and shoots himself in the head and kills himself. how many more will commit suicide? how many tyler jordans will not have their daddies coming home? how many moms and dads and wives and husbands will be at dover to see those in a flag-draped coffin? i yield three minutes to the gentleman from utah, mr. chaffetz. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. chaffetz: i'm going to be voting in favor of this amendment. the united states military is the greatest fighting force on the face of the planet. we could not be more proud of our troops who have served this country with such valor and such vigor. this is the longest war in the history of the united states of america. let there be no mistake, the global war on terror is real. it is very real. i reject the motion that polls should matter in any way, shape, or form in this debate. that's not how the united state

it's only recently we've acknowledged they have ptsd and other problems. i met them, they beg nerd programs to continue because they served their country as well. and then lo and behold, we have just shut the doors on community health clinics, manage the congressional black caucus worked so hard on, $1.3 billion, cutting 3.2 million patients where they can come out of their homes and go to a doctor and not wind up in the emergency room that pushes up the tax costs by the public hospital system and the private hospital system, yet we continue cutting these programs. i'm reminded of barbara jordan's words about not being worried about being called a politician. she said, i want to be called a darn good politician. that's what we should be looking at here in this place as we honor women and women's history month, that we can all be good elected officials and good politicians that make a difference. we make a difference on maff of all the american people, no party affiliation. that we don't cut and jab into collective bargaining in states around this country w

my own clinical experience as a psychologist also tells me there is a higher risk for people with ptsd and homelessness and other trauma if they themself expire a great deal of trauma in their lives when they were younger. and i think you have, like, 2.37 billion in homeless fronts through hud and other things for veterans, although i believe the va should be handling some of this. is this something you're able to relook at and see that perhaps we should be spending more in the early treatment and prevention, let the va handle some of the other things for veterans, but to revisit that to make sure we're not cutting some of the treatment programs out of the childhood treatment of trauma? >> well, i would be glad to have that discussion with pam hyatt who is the directer of the substance abuse and mental health services. i can tell you she's absolutely committed to prevention as being the most effective treatment possibility, so i will, i will certainly circle back with her about your concern about that particular program. >> thank you. i know that the va, for example, has 14 homeless pr

this young marine had been deployed so much that he developed ptsd. and a year ago on the main drag at camp lejeune, known as mchuge boulevard, he committed suicide. he step out of the car, put a gun to his head and commuted suicide. mr. speaker, i hope members will join us and mr. kucinich to begin this debate. let's bring our troops home before we break the military. it is time to bring our troops home from afghanistan. mr. speaker, i always ask god to bless our men and women in uniform. i ask god to bless our families. i ask god to please bless the house and senate that we will do what is right in the eyes of god. and i ask god to give wisdom, strength and courage to president obama that he will do what is right in the eyes of god. and three times i will ask, god, please, god, please, god, please continue to bless america. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen, for one minute. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in opposition to chairman upton's dirty air

walk again to see the young men and women that maybe will not ever think properly again because of ptsd and t.b.i. and i want to remember the young soldier, 22 years old, private, united states army who, before i walked in the room, the escort, major mack said to me, this soldier has no body parts below his waist, they've all been blown away. mr. speaker, it's time for the congress to meet its responsibility and demand a debate on the froor of the house about bringing our troops home from afghanistan. mr. speaker, in closing, as i always do as i look at this beautiful photograph of a soldier who gave his life for this country and the escort team, god, please bless our men and women in uniform. god, please bless the families of our men and women in uniform. god, please hold in your arms the families who have given a loved one fighting for freedom in iraq. please bless the house and senate that we will do what is right in your eyes. skigd to give wisdom, strength and courage to president obama to do what is right in the eyes of god three times i will ask, god, please, god, please, god, pl