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To Understand PTSD, Send Scientists to War

To Understand PTSD, Send Scientists to War

To Understand PTSD, Send Scientists to War

Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer

January 13, 20177m 10s

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It started with a thumb into my eye socket as he tried to gouge out my eye. When he bit into my ear, the adrenaline flooding my veins masked the pain; I would not even realize my ear was gone till after the fight. Twenty years ago, in that dimly lit alley in Kent, Washington, as I walked into a ring of teenage onlookers to face off, my heart was pounding so hard my chest hurt. My vision narrowed—I could only see faces—and I felt sick in my gut.

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