Another Side of PTSD
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 29, 2015
The filmmaker, writer and journalist Sebastian Junger explores the reasons that despite fewer soldiers seeing combat, PTSD rates are on the rise.
.@sebastianjunger says seeing other people dying -- even enemy soldiers -- is deeply traumatic and can lead to PTSD.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) May 29, 2015
"Cohesive societies" seem to lead to lower PTSD rates for former soldiers (i.e. Israel -- very much unlike the U.S.), says @sebastianjunger.
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.@sebastianjunger is here in the studio today: pic.twitter.com/KUiQEQwO1l
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@BrianLehrer It is not just soldiers, it is nurses, firefighters, cops, a lot of folks are suffering.
— dBetty (@ddbetty) May 29, 2015
