ptsd. >> it's not unique to combat. but for veterans what it really has become is one of the signature wounds of iraq and afghanistan. >> skip rizzo first grabbed headlines back in 2006 with his virtual reality ptsd therapy. today he's getting in front of the project with stride. cope with combat stress before their boots hit the battlefield. my colleague, chris lawrence, got a first look. >> i think the military does a pretty good job in preparing people in advance for physically challenging events. for how to operate in a squad. all the tactics of war. >> each one of these recruits has to be a basically trained marine. we have to give our brothers and sisters in the fleet who are going to be in charge of these marines a finished product. >> i want to prepare people to deal with stress better. if that doesn't work out, to help them to fight through the challenges in the aftermath of stress. >> hi, i'm skip r uizzo. anybody that goes to war is going to be changed. it is just a reality. on the other hand, ptsd is a signi

that is why this is so awesome with guys with ptsd. once you are out here it gives you the perspective. >> you can see why it is so they'r therapeutic. >> we got out we returned fire. i have no cartilage in my knee. >> when you first fell you thought you might have been shot. >> right. >> if i can come back with this experience and share it with someone else who hasn't had the opportunity who suffers from ptsb sometimes it takes a little push to get involved. >> right. >> i thank this guy for his service number one and for doing what they are doing returning what you have been given a chance to do. that's dear to me. >> how does it feel to hear that? >> it's awesome. >> we have guys that come out that haven't been out of their house in three years. something told them to come out here and when they believe they talk about how they are going to go home andake their wife out and the key is just getting these guys outside. >> i don't think people realize the damage. guys come back they ask so much of them and they are not getting the help

. >> ana: we have a depressing segment on ptsd and the mental heat of our soldiers. have that report. >> he seems to be unaware of the facts that i talked to him about, which concern me about his state of mind. >> staff sergeant bale served three tours in iraq where he suffered a traumatic brain injury. circumstance & the inside analysis. the presidential inauguration this monday morning at 10 eastern only on current tv. [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. ok. [ voice of dennis ] silence. are you in good hands? the natural energy of peanuts and delicious, soft caramel. to fill you up and keep you moving, whatever your moves. payday. fill up and go! >> ana: reporter bales is an u.s. soldier facing charges of murder in a military court after he allegedly murdered 16 afghani civilians mostly you women and children. this is extremely complex. we have more details on the story. >> staff sergeant robert bales is the suspect of a began civilian murder last weekend. >> he seems to be unaware of some o

promise in diagnosing brain disorders, helping doctors treat depression, bipolar disorder and even ptsd. it is all "happening now.". jon: good friday morning to you. some stunning new developments to tell you about in the hostage crisis playing out right now deep in the sahara desert as we learn terrorists reportedly want to exchange two american hostages for islamic militants held here in the u.s. good morning i'm jon scott. jenna: that is a big story. i'm jenna lee. this is a situation changing by the minute. the white house now saying it is in constant contact with the algerian government. we're getting brand new video showing groups of hostages finally free what is described as a horrifying ordeal. there are reports of hostages with explosives strapped to their chest as others were executed. the algerian state news agency is reporting that at least 32 hostages remain unaccounted for at that natural gas plant where this all began following a raid by algerian forces. it is unclear at this time how many americans are still held. our defense secretary, leon panetta, addressed the crisis

.  >>> the stars of ptsd may be invisible, but they are far too real.tors are researching a promising new treatment that could take the trialer trial and error out of the disorder. >> i try to hide it. i try not to think about it because i have to stay 100%. i have to keep a good example. >> the war in iraq is over. afghanistan winding down. yet the troops returning home fight battles of their own and too often, on their own. post-traumatic stress disorder, ptsd. >> i try not to think about it. >> the problem so widespread and treatment so frequently mishandled, last year defense secretary ordered all military services to conduct an extensive review of mental health diagnosises. >> what we try to do is to do mental health assessments both before and after deployments. so that we can identify and try to treat somebody who might have a problem, specifically with ptsd. we have done about 600,000 of these assessments. >> one intractable problem. how do you treat wounds of war that fester inside the brain? now, doctors at walter reid are trying a new system

and it triggered my ptsd and because i could not sleep for a week after that. and i could not... that day at work they sent me home early because i was so shaken up by the incident and so i am just saying, if you add a taser to that, you know, that equation, i just imagine how worse off it could be. >> thank you very much. >> i have a quick question for you, sir. >> so, just you know you mentioned that you know if they had had a taser how do you think that would have had an impact on your personal recovery. >> to be honest with you. >> i would imagine that being shocked and then being shocked with the electric jolt of a taser would impact my mental health. and as well, being in the shelter with other people who a majority of them are dealing with issues most of it is deescalated without violence, and there might be a lot of screaming on i daily basis but not a lot of violence, when you are daoeg with the mental health community i don't think that using tasers on them, unless the circumstances is the best way to go about it. >> thank you. >> >> before the next speaker i will call

and those are the ones who acknowledge they have ptsd. very small percentage of. the seek treatment. that treatment is often not even that good or effective. s'. >> a lot of it is medicinal. >> and this isn't going away. these are people that are walking our streets that need help, and they have those problems because we sent them to war. and so i just want to say -- i touch on this in the book. one survivor of the attack, ed falker, jr., had ptsd and ultimately overdoses after the attack. he was in the v.a., and two days after his overdose, the veterans hospital called to tell him he was late for his appointment. somebody needs to do something, and i know a lot of talk about this during election years. i hope it doesn't stop. >> that's backlog is actually only 50 years old because we never acknowledged that for vietnam. and the loss has been not just exponential but incredible. what we should have learned from the veterans of vietnam or what the veterans of vietnam told us, this is going to be bad ex-this whole thing in talking to veterans from that war, mostly b

look at what congress was talking about last year that soldiers who had been labeled ptsd who for maybeour to eight or 12 years had been carrying guns around protecting our liberties and our country they come back to the united states because they are labeled ptsd and lose their second amendment right. >> geraldo: i have to give margot 30 seconds. your response to my question about mandatory background checks for everyone? >> absolutely. we believe that the background check records should be kept so we can see who is stockpiling records. >> geraldo: i didn't hear the end of that. >> i said that we support a 100% background check but that we also support keeping those background records which currently have to be destroyed. >> geraldo: a good point. >> we would like those records checked and saved. >> geraldo: thank you. executive director women against gun violence. larry ward, chairman of gun appreciation day. progressive claims. this is flo. i need you. i feel so alone. but you're not alone. i knew you'd come. like i could stay away. you know i can't do this without you. you'll never

but throw ptsd in there and you've got a really bad situation. (kaj)as for jesse, he continues to spend his days at the oregon state hospital. his lawyer has complained that in the six months he's been there, he has yet to receive proper treatment for his ptsd. >> jennifer: i'm jennifer granholm. tonight on in "the war room," the gun safety debate is still being waged and it's still in the public's consciousness. it's something but it's far from enough. theme [♪ theme music ♪] >> jennifer: let's start tonight in a little store in riverdale, illinois, called chuck's gun shop. chuck's gun shop sells ammunition and guns including ber ret tas, glocks pistols shotguns. it's just a few miles from chicago, and since 2008 more than 1300 guns that were confiscated came from this one shop. there is not a single gunshot or gun range inside of the city limits of chicago. but shops like chuck's gun shop can sell guns without restriction, so chicago continues to struggle with a wave of violence filed by these outside guns flooding into the city. 6,000 guns cam

i have light sensitivity, and ptsd. i've been through so much trauma. >> here on the front lines, speaking out about his troubled journey back from war, casey wilson. served in afghanistan, kosovo and iraq. tony robbins helped him overcompost traumatic stress disorder. he has ptsd something many war heroes suffer from. it's powerful and moving address you gave there. you can see the physical effects. you were shaking and you've clearly been through all sorts of trauma, in different ways. before you met tony, what was your life like? >> i was doing a lot of current therapy, you know, psychiatry, psychology, which i started in 2011. 2010, i started doing -- trying to figure out my life, because i went through a second divorce. and so i didn't understand the whole process, why was i feeling this way? so i started to seek treatment at that time. i was going to acupuncture, healing touch, meditation. >> did it help, any of that? >> yes. it was helping to an extent, you know. like i said, i was just 20-plus years in the marin

these children are suffering from ptsd and there should be a way they should be taken care of, the way the principal was telling that child is not the way, and if that is what you have running these schools you need to rethink who you hire, and who you have over our children, and i would thank you to do just that. check with barbara garcia at bph and mental health and get m with this coalition and we definitely need opportunities for contract scpors i don't know what happened to prop 209 but i hope you guys stand up and do a set a side for the blacks because we want to be independent too. we see what is happening in the communities and the money is coming from overseas and we can't compete, the housing and construction and when the kids are falling through the cracks we can't catch them and we need you all to help us. i was invited to mlk from the reverend to participate in the celebration and we went to the classroom and we had them listening to the speech and it was following along with the speech because it was typed out for them. we gave them some treats and goodies because we put

i must have misunderstood that. >> no. >> but victims do develop ptsd, you did have a slide that said military sexual trauma at a higher rate than people under intense combat. >> as a matter of fact, that's data that is out there and in civilian research and also that the va has found as well. >> what happens in the military when job performance falls as a result of having ptsd or depression or these types of maladies? >> you said it exactly, job performance falls. it's very difficult for some of our folks to maintain the high levels of performance that they need to when they're also trying to overcome these problems in their daily life and their relationships and at work. >> and how are the service people treated if that occurs? >> um, i think that it's a, i think it's -- i don't know if i can paint with a broad brush, but i think that anytime at least in my experience in providing treatment and care one of the things that i do when a commander used to contact me as a clinical psychologist and say i'm having problems with one of my troops, i would try to educate them on some of the i

so it was that many veterans of the vietnam war showed signs of ptsd after returning. almost 16 months of my life was spent in a jungle. i'd seen a base camp only two months, and that was a week here and a week there. the rest was living with bugs. now bugs bother me. loud noises--like my daughter screams, and that's it. i'm back, right back there again, because when you're into a flashback, you really don't have any feelings except the thoughts in your mind. it's like a videocassette in your head, and yohave no "off" button until your mind says "off." your heart starts pumping. your blood starts running. it's just like if you're walking across the street and you don't see a car coming, and he slams on the brakes and you get that "shoo" feeling. then--zip--from there you're off and running. it always comes back, like sound, smell, taste even. uh, it always brings back a little flash. it only lasts about a second to five seconds. sometimes it lasts longer when a helicopter goes by. i figure myself sitting at the gunner turret on a helicopter and letting loose, and what

kind of crisis level that what impact do you believe being tased has on their ultimate recovery and ptsd, perhaps or what? i mean it just seems like a very uncompassionate approach to it. i am not editorial... i guess that i am editorializing, could you give us an input on how? >> as a supervisor... >> okay. >> i looked at the research and studies by the aclsxu, they found that more often than using them as a disabling tool to depress a suspect they are used as a pain compliance term that is an aclu term. pain compliance and one of the ways that they are used is a taser is pulled and it is arcked where they will arc and throw an electrical arc across the context to show the suspect the amount of pain that they could cause that person and that in and off itself is very threatening and can cause trauma, even if that suspect is never struck with the taser electrodes just seeing the arc is traumatizing if they are struck, it is traumatizing, the actual reach on whether it is causing trauma in the population is still ongoing. but there is research to show the very unhealthy out comes in terms

i think that it might create more ptsd, i don't know, i am not a mental health professional. i am just saying, that you know, i just also read very little about the case but i know that the individual, i guess, at the chocolate factory who was killed, was brandishing a box cutter. so i was not there, i am not going to pass judgment. i am just saying, that i am wondering how we get from there to how it escalated to the point where it did. if people had more training around crisis intervention that dealt with compassion as opposed to reaching for a weapon. i don't mean to sound naive and in northern ireland they used rubber bullets. and tasers have been known to be lethal and we have incidents like author grant and others where the people accidentally grabbed for the taser and people are killed and there is more than one incident and mostly the people of color that are victims of this. and so, it just seems to me that would be great, i think, if we could spend more time with people having widening the basket of, you know, tools that you all could use that have more to do with d

ptsd is a really big problem with ex-military. both those who served in wartime and peacetime even.oom boom, boom. making a gun with his finger. would they see that as a threat? >> stephanie: that's what i mean. would there be overreactions? it is a complicated issue as we've said. there has to be -- i'm sure a multifaceted solution. 17 minutes after the hour. kids, go to meeting, it is how we run this ramshackle operation. because i don't leave my house. you guys are planning something friday. i'm going to leave my house. >> i can't believe you're thinking about going to this happy hour that we're planning. >> stephanie: it is a thing. i live on go to meeting because a lot of -- people work for your company all over the country. i'm sure, winter weather if you're back east, people call in sick. flights get canceled. go to meeting by citrix solves all of that. the fast and simple way to meet with clients and coworkers online. no matter what the weather is like with go to meeting, it is easy to stay connected. turn on your webcam, you're instantly connected to everybody. you can coll

clinical psychology is on the front line of struggles with ptsd.ets and focusing on a preemptive strike. the next list. >> war is going to be changed. it's a reality. on the other hand, ptsd is a significant challenge. not about being weak. it's about having an experience of stress. really has a neurological impact. >> we've seen now potentially hundreds of thousands of veteran who's may be returning from iraq or afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder. conservative estimates say one in five folks coming home. >> we want to prepare people to deal with stress better and help them fight through the challenges in the aftermath of stress. i'm skip rizzo, clinical psychologist. >> check out "the next list," sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern. >>> millions of americans saw and heard it. there she is. and only a few for sure know if that performance was live or recorded. was beyonce singing? why does anybody care? why won't they clear it up? a closer look, coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] some day, your life will flash before your eyes. ♪ make it wort

these are people that said i need help for ptsd diseases caused by agent orange i need a pension in myit. they wait. they wait. and in 20,000 cases they get that yes, we can help you only after they die. >> jennifer: some people might suggest there's a cynical slowness to this so the money does not have to be paid. what actually happens with the families when that decision -- affirming benefits gets handed down and the person is dead? >> the families do get the money, but they have to continue fighting after their loved one dies, and a lot of people give up. >> jennifer: do they have to file a separate claim? >> you have to take affirmative action to keep that alive. so just imagine your loved one commits suicide. it is not going to be on the top of your list to file paperwork with the va. that's why a lot of people say the va's mantra is delay, deny, wait until i die, because way more than 19,500 veteraned dies while waiting for their benefits. >> jennifer: have we seen any movement in this? >> unfortunately not. the va was saying that by the end of 2012, they would hit certain benchm

and ptsd in the military a real problem we continue to ignore. >> michael: you should know that i neverban outfitters, but if i were to think about them i think everyone in the entire world is excited that you are hosting "the young turks" today. all right. we're going to take a quick break and then take a look at two very different portraits of our executive branch. you are watching "the war room" only here on current tv. question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. >> you know, i've always found the relationship between president obama and vice president joe biden compelling, not only because it truly appears to be a partnership which is not always the case between a president and his vp, but because they make it work despite being very different people. it's fitting that both men were paid homage today although in very different ways. fist the president, who needs to update his presidential portrait and the white house did just that. it's a portrait taken by pete sousa who looks like a man who

. >> she was displaying classic symptoms like in ptsd, nightmare flashbacks mood swings. >> nightmaresi pace back and forth. i couldn't go to sleep. i would wake up with night terrors. >> what were your nightmares about? >> the murder. i was seeing everything they told me happened in the dream about stabbing him, dragging him to the dumpster and burning him. >> the nurse will monitor her in the coming months. >> we will make sure she doesn't get worse or going downhill again. >> over in general population, dimauro's son david link is looking forward to a fresh start. he accepted a plea deal for testimony against his mother and her former live in boyfriend kasey ackerman about their roles in a gruesome murder. he could be out in two and a half years. >> my dream i guess would be to get a band and be big with music or else to sit there and become an actor or something because i like acting. >> link's experience has changed his perspective on the company he keeps but on the company his mother has kept. >> i wish she never would have went out with kasey and stuff. hopefully she learns from

taking care of ptsd.ht is thank you. >> big events here, one of them, of course, smokey robinson. an amazing concert called let freedom ring celebration. 2,100 people in the opera house. folks have lined up outside for the free concert since 5:00 in the morning, hearing favorites like "my girl" and "america the beautiful." a tribute to dr. martin luther king and the public service he did and the public service people are doing around the country. another big event to celebrate their voting power, fund-raising power and putting the president back in office for a second term. we saw a lot of notables, celebrities here, had a hans to talk with eva longoria, mario lopez and a very important moment, one that took place for the first time. you had the legendary cheetah rivera, both of them singing together at the same time. it really brought the house down, chita rivera and rita moreno. the vice president was also in the house. people thought perhaps he was not only celebrating an inauguration but perhaps looki

many of them are suffering ptsd, many of them have a special night out from walter reed, this is theirto be honored. members of congress on both sides of the aisle, coming together tonight for this, lynn ard skynyrd, we're about to hear from the daughter of john boone, she'll be singing. we'll make sure we stay here live. it's a tremendous opportunity to think what can be a thankless job fighting for our freedoms and so we'll be hearing from them a little later tonight in addition to lynyrd skynyrd. right here at the warner theater. >> we're going to be able to hear a little bit of that live performance tonight, is that right, brooke? >> yes, they will be -- they will actually -- after the tuskegee airmen, let me mention that, several members of what you know -- an historic group of african-american men, very first aviators in world war ii, they will be here tonight. i've seen rolling thunder here tonight, a number of other veterans, very highly decorated veterans around here, the end of the whole thing, i know you're excited about katy perry last night, wolf, i'll raise your katy perr

then they come back home and because they have seen a psychiatrist, they may, they may have ptsd. they come back home and lose their second amendment right. i just think that's wrong. melissa: all right. thanks for coming on. we appreciate your time. >> thank you very much. melissa: got anything? there we go. all right. up next on "money", american hostages are still being held captive in algeria. as the u.s. scrambles to try to free them will more attacks against key energy installations follow. our power panel has the answers. who cares what lance tells oprah. it is now all about the ratings that come with it. can the interview give oprah's struggling own network the steroid injection it so badly needs? more "money" coming up. ♪ . officemax has exactly the ink... your business needs... at prices that keep you...out of the red. this week get a bonus $15 itunes gift card with any qualifying $75 ink purchase. find thousands of big deals now... at officemax. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then