How Do You Live After You’ve Almost Died?

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  That kind of is one of the, I think, central intellectual issues at the heart of PTSD is how do you live?

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  How do you live after you've almost died?

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  It's kind of fitting that as I'm recording this short introduction, there are sirens in the background.

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  I'm sitting in New York City.

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  But today's conversation is about PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder.

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  It's a conversation with a guy named David Morris, who wrote a book called the Evil Hours, which is a fascinating exploration.

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  And he served first as a marine and didn't see combat, but then he chose to go back into combat zones as a war journalist.

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  And at that point, he was exposed to some pretty profound and life changing trauma, and he came home and struggled with it mightily, as many veterans do, and really turned his journalistic inquiry into trying to figure this out and looking at the whole world of how we deal with how we work, with how we interact with people who are living with this thing called PTSD and how it profoundly changes you and may never leave you, and how the institutions and the therapies that are set up for it may or may not do much good.

• 01:25

  Some may even potentially do harm, and how we should approach it and also how we can support people who maybe are friends of ours or who we love, who've gone through this.

• 01:35

  The other thing that's really important about this conversation is this is not just about veterans.

• 01:39

  This is about people that, you know, every day in your life almost guaranteed that if you're living and breathing on the planet for more than a few decades, there's somebody who's gone through some level of trauma that has left them in some way wounded.

• 01:52

  And, um, how do we live with that?

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  How do we move through it?

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  How do we heal it if, in fact, it's possible?

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  That's what this conversation is all about.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields.

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  This is good life project.

• 02:09

  So, fascinating topic and a really interesting timing.

• 02:13

  I want to take a step back before we really kind of go into what it's about, though, and learn just a little bit more about you and sort of like.

• 02:19

  So hopefully back.

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