We train soldiers for war. Let's train them to come home, too | Hector Garcia 

As an aspiring psychologist, this man gives me hope that I can change peoples lives.

The night before I left Viet Nam, I spent in a bunker as we were being attacked. That was a Wednesday night. Flew back to Fort Louis, WA on Thursday, out processed at 12:10AM on Friday morning, flew back to Chicago Friday morning, was home Friday PM, grilled steaks Friday evening. It was really, really weird. It didn't feel right. More like a nightmare, really weird. A few days later, I was walking with a few other men on a college campus when there was some kind of a loud noise. Without thinking, I fell to the ground. The others looked at me like I was stupid, they didn't know that the previous week I was in VN. It was embarrissing .

Hi, providing support to help soldiers return to productive, welcoming, balanced life is so important in my opinion because otherwise there is the danger that soldiers will bring war back with them INSIDE OF THEM. The world needs HEALING in so many ways these days.

Now this is a TED Talk I can get behind!

Trauma and depression is for real and undoubtedly it leaves you disturbed for decades. Wars are unavoidable but can be minimised and must be

Not sending people to pointless wars might help.

Hello, Doctor Hector Garcia. One of the first serious investigators to treat war neuroses was doctor David Harold Fink (USA / writer of Realease from your nervous tension), which he used based on Ivan Pavlov's research. You live in a peaceful country, thank God, and you do not know; But I tell you that treating the war neuroses is important not only for war situations, but even for very violent countries like mine; CONGRATULATIONS for creativity and insight; Congratulations on your research. We do not have good medicine here, nor good universities. We are a country underdeveloped and driven to extreme violence by socialism of the last 13 years. Civil disarmament has made urban violence rise from 2003 to 2016, and we are the 15th most violent country in the world with 22.5 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants and a total of almost 60,000 intentional homicides a year, according to the UN itself (Our country is more violent than Iraq). Our population is neurotic and aggressive. I am affected by this environment and I enjoyed your research. Once again, congratulations (sorry for the bad translation, I do not speak your language, our education is not good either). I'm Brazilian and my name is George Ferraz.

Fabulous, passionate, well delivered message.

Very good talk, thanks for sharing.

Wth is up with people spewing negative stuff all of a sudden?

The war leads to many misfortunes, and the effects of wars such as the Vietnam War are quite fatal for soldiers. Instead of protecting the country by risking their lives, I think we should help soldiers, including support, to get back to their daily lives as a society. I hope many people will improve with the psychological treatments like those in the lecture.

this is actually a great talk for once :)

Such an inspiring talk!

let's not send them to fight wars in the first place

My chain of command all denied my chit for TAPS. I had to write my resume off a template online because my Chain of Command couldn't be bothered to have me attend a transitional class that would have given me necessary job skills. Then I was denied my GI Bill benefits by the Oakland Regional VA so I went to school on fafsa alone even though I was wrongly denied GI Bill benefits because Oakland was over burdened with claims so they either denied out right or records were destroyed. I spent 8 years trying to attend community college until I became homeless and without any income. I started attending VA mental health sessions until 2 years later when I finally was able to get a response on my claim and was awarded 100% disability for mental health issues. The taxpayers now have to pay me disability for the rest of my life because I was not given the opportunity to better myself and become successful. The sad thing is that if I had just gotten the help I initially requested thst my situation wouldnt have devolved until I was no longer able to care for myself.

well we brief infantry for war mentality before combat, then we debrief infantry for civilian life after combat now, but i dont think its anything close to enough on either part. edit- thats literally what hes saying nvm

YES! Something actually worth while.

amazing

PTSD to me is such a fascinating disorder in which it's the only disorder that is learned and happens in one moment compared to other disorder that are for the most part chemical imbalances, biological, etc.

Atleast they have peacefull home to go back to imagine the people living or the children growing up in those war zones.

Love it 😍

People that thumbs down a video like this are spiteful. There is war and he states that. Don't dislike a video of someone trying to help a medical condition. You can get ptsd from being a slave, raped, assaulted, watching someone else's suffering. This guy's is only trying to improve the information and science around psychological medical conditions; in particular ptsd. If you don't like a particular part of it... Cry me a river. It's rude to insult someone else's intelligence because yours is inadequate or biased.

It's interesting to see how this kind of TED talks does not get the same hate as some others.

There is no coming back, you never left...

Of all the fucked up things humans have done, war is the worst.

Where can I get treatment like this?

This may sound corny...but hearing him use my name Carlos for his story made this strike extra deep..

I got ptsd from a car wreck.Not from war my thanks it a joke and make fun of me when I freak out when there driving crazy

This was practically possible. Treatment for PTSD WORKS SAME AS WITH THE DEPRESSION. Very few people IN INDIA WAS AWAEE OF DEPRESSION.

Every profession has pros and cons and if you choose to be a Marine these are consequences of it.

Ted coming back?

Huge majority of soldiers don't suffer from PTSD, there's an incentive from the VA that gets more money depending on how many serious cases they deal with. Thus they push for as many cases as possible.

how about not sending your soldier to kill at the firs place??

How about not sending them to war (and I don't mean drones)? People should not think is normal this never ending wars that they are always in. I know that he say in the end of the video "that is better not to go to war''. But when you are putting your efforts in to making war a lesser burden to the belligerent, then, even indirectly you are helping in. Cause the burden tend to persuade society to stoping wars.

i WOULD LIKE TO DEBATE YOUR THEORY VS MINE, SIR SEMPER FI

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If this is the same guy, I seen him here in San Antonio Tx at our Va. He wasn't this good. Maybe he seen enough ginny pigs to get all this great info he is talking about!

Obiective Scientific Research following Scientific Method... so gud...

.... Sounds a bit like scientology making people relive memories constantly until there is no more reaction to the remembrance.....

put in turkish subtitles please

Im a Marine vet and I feel lucky for gettin the 777 thumbs up lol.

I just read a story in a newspaper that Lady Gaga suffers from PTSD, and according to her, the disease has no cure. Well, now you have a treatment

Not suing them and not sending them to prison for simply doing their jobs might help as the stupid, sanctimonious and politically correct British Government are trying to do retroactively to their own soldiers!

And better yet, lets not have soldiers at all

Maybe TED Talks speakers should call out globalists for starting proxy and interventionist wars to line their pockets, instead of turning a blind eye or calling other people nationalists or bigots for disagreeing with them. That would probably do more to help veterans like myself...

I found the perfect treatment to combat-induced PTSD 15 years ago: Don't go to war, idiot.

stop being so negative guys!

I think you may have forgotten the meaning of war

This shouldn't be optional it should be required further more the household situation should be checked on every 6 months until everyone in the house feels safe.

thanks for all the hate messages from all the wonderful people!!#sarcasm

Wait, a talk that's not just calling everyone racists or bigots?

Stop airing Iranian media.

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how to cure ptsd for U.S. ex-soldiers; don't invade the middle east in the first place.