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Elissa Slotkin: “Their brain chemistry has changed temporarily because of…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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A Book Never Shot Anyone (with Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Cara Erskine)

Published | Video Starts at 32:22

They're describing the same PTSD that I saw in people who I served with in Iraq. Yeah. And I'm having to explain what PTSD is and the symptoms of it because Their brain chemistry has changed temporarily because of trauma. And when you do that with teenagers, with people who were just, you know, parents who are just sending their kids off to school, I challenge anyone to go into that situation and come out an unchanged person. (32:22–32:28)

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Asserts that trauma has temporarily changed the brain chemistry of students.

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