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Exactly what Donald Trump said about PTSD, veteran suicides

When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it. Look we need that so badly and when you… when you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it.

With as many as one in five veterans of recent wars having PTSD in any given year, this is a system overwhelmed, and the last thing anyone involved in it needs is insults and stigmatizing from a man who can't do battle with his own id and win.

CLOSE Skip in Skip x Embed x Share Vice President Joe Biden slammed Trump for appearing to suggest that veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder aren't strong.

Recovering from PTSD and overcoming anxiety disorders is challenging, time-consuming work; it's also essential for the many people who suffer from these conditions.

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