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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.76,0:00:05.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I worked as a war reporter for 15 years
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.14,0:00:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before I realized\Nthat I really had a problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.10,0:00:11.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was something really wrong with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.23,0:00:14.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was about a year before 9/11,\Nand America wasn't at war yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.43,0:00:17.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We weren't talking about PTSD.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.85,0:00:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were not yet talking\Nabout the effect of trauma and war
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.07,0:00:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the human psyche.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.71,0:00:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd been in Afghanistan\Nfor a couple of months
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.98,0:00:29.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the Northern Alliance\Nas they were fighting the Taliban.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.01,0:00:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at that point the Taliban\Nhad an air force,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.29,0:00:36.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they had fighter planes,\Nthey had tanks, they had artillery,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.55,0:00:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we really got hammered\Npretty badly a couple of times.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.86,0:00:41.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We saw some very ugly things.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.10,0:00:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I didn't really think it affected me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.10,0:00:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't think much about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.65,0:00:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came home to New York, where I live.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.14,0:00:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then one day I went down into the subway,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.49,0:00:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for the first time in my life,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.96,0:00:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew real fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.82,0:00:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a massive panic attack.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.06,0:01:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was way more scared\Nthan I had ever been in Afghanistan.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.09,0:01:07.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything I was looking at seemed like\Nit was going to kill me,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.52,0:01:09.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I couldn't explain why.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.12,0:01:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The trains were going too fast.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.12,0:01:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were too many people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.50,0:01:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The lights were too bright.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.31,0:01:18.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything was too loud,\Neverything was moving too quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.13,0:01:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I backed up against a support column\Nand just waited for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.12,0:01:26.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I couldn't take it any longer,\NI ran out of the subway station
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.34,0:01:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and walked wherever I was going.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.65,0:01:33.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Later, I found out that what I had\Nwas short-term PTSD:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.85,0:01:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,post-traumatic stress disorder.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.99,0:01:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We evolved as animals, as primates,\Nto survive periods of danger,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.24,0:01:43.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if your life has been in danger,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.19,0:01:45.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you want to react to unfamiliar noises.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.35,0:01:49.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to sleep lightly, wake up easily.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.63,0:01:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to have nightmares and flashbacks
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.85,0:01:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the thing that could kill you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.76,0:01:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to be angry because it makes you\Npredisposed to fight,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.84,0:02:01.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or depressed, because it keeps you out\Nof circulation a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.59,0:02:02.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keeps you safe.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.58,0:02:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not very pleasant,\Nbut it's better than getting eaten.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.47,0:02:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people recover\Nfrom that pretty quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.95,0:02:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes a few weeks, a few months.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.06,0:02:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kept having panic attacks,\Nbut they eventually went away.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.20,0:02:18.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had no idea it was connected\Nto the war that I'd seen.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.87,0:02:20.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just thought I was going crazy,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.49,0:02:23.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I thought, well,\Nnow I'm not going crazy anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.20,0:02:27.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About 20 percent of people, however,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.85,0:02:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wind up with chronic, long-term PTSD.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.17,0:02:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are not adapted to temporary danger.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.58,0:02:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are maladapted for everyday life,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.37,0:02:37.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless they get help.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.99,0:02:41.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that the people\Nwho are vulnerable to long-term PTSD
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.56,0:02:44.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are people who were abused as children,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.30,0:02:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who suffered trauma as children,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.05,0:02:48.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who have low education levels,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.69,0:02:51.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who have psychiatric\Ndisorders in their family.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.28,0:02:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you served in Vietnam
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.58,0:02:55.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your brother is schizophrenic,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.30,0:02:59.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're way more likely to get\Nlong-term PTSD from Vietnam.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.57,0:03:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started to study this\Nas a journalist,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.87,0:03:07.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I realized that there was something\Nreally strange going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.42,0:03:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The numbers seemed to be going\Nin the wrong direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.60,0:03:12.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every war that we have\Nfought as a country,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.99,0:03:14.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting with the Civil War,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.99,0:03:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the intensity of the combat has gone down.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.88,0:03:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a result, the casualty rates\Nhave gone down.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.71,0:03:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But disability rates have gone up.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.69,0:03:26.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They should be going\Nin the same direction,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.70,0:03:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they're going in different directions.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.12,0:03:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\Nhave produced, thank God,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.74,0:03:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a casualty rate about one third\Nof what it was in Vietnam.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.13,0:03:46.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they've also created --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.68,0:03:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've also produced\Nthree times the disability rates.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.53,0:03:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around 10 percent of the US military\Nis actively engaged in combat,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.44,0:03:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,10 percent or under.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.80,0:04:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're shooting at people,\Nkilling people,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.10,0:04:04.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting shot at,\Nseeing their friends get killed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.46,0:04:06.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's incredibly traumatic.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.04,0:04:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's only about 10 percent\Nof our military.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.87,0:04:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But about half of our military has filed
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.13,0:04:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for some kind of PTSD compensation\Nfrom the government.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.92,0:04:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And suicide doesn't even fit into this\Nin a very logical way.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.17,0:04:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've all heard the tragic statistic\Nof 22 vets a day, on average,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.98,0:04:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this country, killing themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.56,0:04:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people don't realize
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.08,0:04:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the majority of those suicides\Nare veterans of the Vietnam War,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.74,0:04:40.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that generation,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.64,0:04:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their decision to take their own lives\Nactually might not be related
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.16,0:04:47.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the war they fought 50 years earlier.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.12,0:04:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, there's no statistical connection\Nbetween combat and suicide.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.84,0:04:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're in the military\Nand you're in a lot of combat,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.93,0:04:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're no more likely to kill yourself\Nthan if you weren't.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.61,0:05:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, one study found
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.96,0:05:02.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if you deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.01,0:05:06.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're actually slightly less likely\Nto commit suicide later.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.63,0:05:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I studied anthropology in college.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.92,0:05:13.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did my fieldwork\Non the Navajo reservation.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.96,0:05:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wrote a thesis on Navajo\Nlong-distance runners.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.47,0:05:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And recently, while\NI was researching PTSD,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.50,0:05:25.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had this thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.32,0:05:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought back to the work\NI did when I was young,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.43,0:05:33.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I thought, I bet the Navajo,\Nthe Apache, the Comanche --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.52,0:05:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, these are very warlike nations --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.11,0:05:39.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I bet they weren't getting\NPTSD like we do.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.81,0:05:43.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When their warriors came back\Nfrom fighting the US military
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.83,0:05:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or fighting each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.24,0:05:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I bet they pretty much just slipped\Nright back into tribal life.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.64,0:05:53.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And maybe what determines
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.91,0:05:56.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rate of long-term PTSD
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.63,0:05:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't what happened out there,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.94,0:06:02.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the kind of society you come back to.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.11,0:06:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And maybe if you come back\Nto a close, cohesive, tribal society,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.82,0:06:11.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can get over trauma pretty quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.83,0:06:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you come back\Nto an alienating, modern society,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.72,0:06:20.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you might remain traumatized\Nyour entire life.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.25,0:06:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, maybe the problem\Nisn't them, the vets;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.38,0:06:25.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe the problem is us.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.32,0:06:31.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certainly, modern society\Nis hard on the human psyche
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.65,0:06:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by every metric that we have.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.04,0:06:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As wealth goes up in a society,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.52,0:06:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the suicide rate goes up instead of down.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.07,0:06:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you live in modern society,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.18,0:06:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're up to eight times more likely
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.38,0:06:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to suffer from depression in your lifetime
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.72,0:06:57.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than if you live in a poor,\Nagrarian society.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.92,0:07:02.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Modern society has probably produced\Nthe highest rates of suicide
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.54,0:07:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and depression and anxiety\Nand loneliness and child abuse
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.82,0:07:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ever in human history.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.70,0:07:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw one study
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.29,0:07:13.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that compared women in Nigeria,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.36,0:07:15.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the most chaotic\Nand violent and corrupt
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.63,0:07:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and poorest countries in Africa,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.36,0:07:20.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to women in North America.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.67,0:07:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the highest rates of depression\Nwere urban women in North America.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.89,0:07:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was also the wealthiest group.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.64,0:07:32.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's go back to the US military.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.10,0:07:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ten percent are in combat.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.64,0:07:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around 50 percent have filed\Nfor PTSD compensation.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.60,0:07:46.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So about 40 percent of veterans\Nreally were not traumatized overseas
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.73,0:07:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but have come home to discover\Nthey are dangerously alienated
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.56,0:07:53.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and depressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.34,0:07:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what is happening with them?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.30,0:08:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's going on with those people,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.05,0:08:06.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the phantom 40 percent that are troubled\Nbut don't understand why?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.81,0:08:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it's this:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.16,0:08:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe they had an experience\Nof sort of tribal closeness
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.83,0:08:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their unit when they were overseas.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.08,0:08:18.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were eating together,\Nsleeping together,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.73,0:08:21.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing tasks and missions together.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.06,0:08:23.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were trusting each other\Nwith their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.16,0:08:26.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then they come home
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.86,0:08:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they have to give all that up
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.85,0:08:33.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're coming back\Nto a society, a modern society,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.61,0:08:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is hard on people\Nwho weren't even in the military.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.17,0:08:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just hard on everybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.49,0:08:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we keep focusing on trauma, PTSD.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.68,0:08:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But for a lot of these people,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.34,0:08:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe it's not trauma.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.56,0:08:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, certainly,\Nsoldiers are traumatized
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.14,0:08:53.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the ones who are\Nhave to be treated for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.53,0:08:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a lot of them --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.75,0:08:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe what's bothering them\Nis actually a kind of alienation.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.32,0:09:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, maybe we just have\Nthe wrong word for some of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.12,0:09:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just changing our language,\Nour understanding,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.53,0:09:04.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would help a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.73,0:09:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Post-deployment alienation disorder."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.46,0:09:10.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe even just calling it that\Nfor some of these people
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.63,0:09:14.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would allow them to stop imagining
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.24,0:09:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to imagine a trauma\Nthat didn't really happen
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.71,0:09:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to explain a feeling\Nthat really is happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.50,0:09:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in fact, it's an extremely\Ndangerous feeling.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.04,0:09:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That alienation and depression\Ncan lead to suicide.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.81,0:09:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people are in danger.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.83,0:09:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very important to understand why.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.17,0:09:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Israeli military has a PTSD rate\Nof around one percent.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.65,0:09:41.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The theory is that everyone in Israel\Nis supposed to serve in the military.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.27,0:09:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When soldiers come back\Nfrom the front line,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.41,0:09:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're not going from a military\Nenvironment to a civilian environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.74,0:09:52.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're coming back to a community\Nwhere everyone understands
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.70,0:09:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the military.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.88,0:09:57.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone's been in it\Nor is going to be in it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.06,0:09:59.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone understands\Nthe situation they're all in.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.44,0:10:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's as if they're all in one big tribe.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.28,0:10:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that if you take a lab rat
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.34,0:10:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and traumatize it and put it\Nin a cage by itself,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.04,0:10:11.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can maintain its trauma symptoms\Nalmost indefinitely.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.72,0:10:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you take that same lab rat\Nand put it in a cage with other rats,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.02,0:10:21.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after a couple of weeks,\Nit's pretty much OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.51,0:10:24.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After 9/11,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.55,0:10:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the murder rate in New York City\Nwent down by 40 percent.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.87,0:10:31.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The suicide rate went down.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.76,0:10:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The violent crime rate in New York\Nwent down after 9/11.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.28,0:10:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even combat veterans of previous wars\Nwho suffered from PTSD
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.63,0:10:47.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,said that their symptoms went down\Nafter 9/11 happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.15,0:10:50.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason is that if you traumatize\Nan entire society,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.45,0:10:55.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't fall apart\Nand turn on one another.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.69,0:10:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We come together. We unify.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.83,0:10:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Basically, we tribalize,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.90,0:11:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that process of unifying\Nfeels so good and is so good for us,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.48,0:11:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it even helps people
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.92,0:11:10.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are struggling\Nwith mental health issues.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.24,0:11:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the blitz in London,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.03,0:11:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,admissions to psychiatric wards\Nwent down during the bombings.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.61,0:11:21.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For a while, that was the kind of country
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.85,0:11:25.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that American soldiers came\Nback to -- a unified country.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.29,0:11:27.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were sticking together.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.58,0:11:30.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were trying to understand\Nthe threat against us.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.22,0:11:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were trying to help\Nourselves and the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.52,0:11:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.39,0:11:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, American soldiers,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.76,0:11:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American veterans are coming back\Nto a country that is so bitterly divided
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.72,0:11:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the two political parties\Nare literally accusing each other
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.67,0:11:53.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of treason, of being\Nan enemy of the state,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.26,0:11:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of trying to undermine the security\Nand the welfare of their own country.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.05,0:12:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gap between rich and poor\Nis the biggest it's ever been.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.21,0:12:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just getting worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.42,0:12:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Race relations are terrible.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.85,0:12:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are demonstrations\Nand even riots in the streets
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.73,0:12:11.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of racial injustice.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.73,0:12:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And veterans know that any tribe\Nthat treated itself that way -- in fact,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.01,0:12:21.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any platoon that treated itself\Nthat way -- would never survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.07,0:12:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've gotten used to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.98,0:12:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Veterans have gone away\Nand are coming back
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.86,0:12:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and seeing their own country\Nwith fresh eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.32,0:12:34.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they see what's going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.74,0:12:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the country they fought for.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.43,0:12:40.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No wonder they're depressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.14,0:12:41.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No wonder they're scared.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.37,0:12:47.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, we ask ourselves\Nif we can save the vets.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.25,0:12:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the real question\Nis if we can save ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.90,0:12:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we can,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.62,0:12:55.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the vets are going to be fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.70,0:12:59.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's time for this country to unite,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.82,0:13:06.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if only to help the men and women\Nwho fought to protect us.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.18,0:13:08.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.44,0:13:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)