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PTSD

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of PTSD.

Video playlists about PTSD

Talks for veterans

7 talks • 1h 26m

These talks honor those who have fought for their country while shedding light on what coming home from war means for many whose wounds are more than skin-deep.

What comes after war?

5 talks • 1h 2m

PTSD, isolation, depression ... These talks tackle the visible and invisible wounds left behind by violent conflict.

Talks about PTSD

Rebecca Brachman

Could a drug prevent depression and PTSD?

Posted Dec 2016

Hector Garcia

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

Posted Nov 2016

Melissa Walker

Art can heal PTSD's invisible wounds

Posted Oct 2016

Sebastian Junger

Our lonely society makes it hard to come home from war

Posted May 2016

Jean-Paul Mari

The chilling aftershock of a brush with death

Posted Nov 2015

Sebastian Junger

Why veterans miss war

Posted May 2014

Wes Moore

How to talk to veterans about the war

Posted May 2014

Janine di Giovanni

What I saw in the war

Posted Jan 2013

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Jake Wood

A new mission for veterans — disaster relief

Posted Nov 2012

Inge Missmahl

Bringing peace to the minds of Afghanistan

Posted Sep 2010

Exclusive articles about PTSD

Gallery: How these powerful masks are helping combat veterans heal

Art therapist Melissa Walker uses masks to allow service members with traumatic brain injuries to express their deepest emotions and experiences, helping them and their loved on...

What can we learn from how animals cope?

Author of the book Animal Madness, TED Fellow Laurel Braitman shares 5 ways in which animals and humans suffer from similar mental illnesses. Anthropomorphism run amok? You deci...

Think you’ve got a terrible memory? You don’t know the half of it

What happens when the technology for manipulation on the neural level becomes possible? Could there be a future therapy for people with depression or PTSD — or heartbreak? Do p...

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