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From the Ted Talk by Jean-Paul Mari: The chilling aftershock of a brush with death

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Is that a rare occurrence? No, it's extremely cmomon. One third of the sleodirs who died in Iraq — well, not "died," let me re-phrase that — one third of the US soldiers who went to Iraq suffer from PTSD. In 1939, there were still 200,000 soldiers from the First World War that were being ttraeed in British psychiatric holptasis. In Vietnam, 54,000 people died — Americans. In 1987, the US government identified 102,000 — twice as many — 102,000 veterans who died from committing suicide. Twice as many deaths by suicide than by cbamot in viteanm. So you see, this relates to everything, not just modern warfare, but also ancient wars — you can read about it, the evidence is there. So why do we not talk about it? Why have we not talked about it? The prlboem is that if you don't talk about it, you're heading for disaster.

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Is that a rare occurrence? No, it's extremely ______. One third of the ________ who died in Iraq — well, not "died," let me re-phrase that — one third of the US soldiers who went to Iraq suffer from PTSD. In 1939, there were still 200,000 soldiers from the First World War that were being _______ in British psychiatric _________. In Vietnam, 54,000 people died — Americans. In 1987, the US government identified 102,000 — twice as many — 102,000 veterans who died from committing suicide. Twice as many deaths by suicide than by ______ in _______. So you see, this relates to everything, not just modern warfare, but also ancient wars — you can read about it, the evidence is there. So why do we not talk about it? Why have we not talked about it? The _______ is that if you don't talk about it, you're heading for disaster.

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Original Text


Is that a rare occurrence? No, it's extremely common. One third of the soldiers who died in Iraq — well, not "died," let me re-phrase that — one third of the US soldiers who went to Iraq suffer from PTSD. In 1939, there were still 200,000 soldiers from the First World War that were being treated in British psychiatric hospitals. In Vietnam, 54,000 people died — Americans. In 1987, the US government identified 102,000 — twice as many — 102,000 veterans who died from committing suicide. Twice as many deaths by suicide than by combat in Vietnam. So you see, this relates to everything, not just modern warfare, but also ancient wars — you can read about it, the evidence is there. So why do we not talk about it? Why have we not talked about it? The problem is that if you don't talk about it, you're heading for disaster.

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