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Hood Disease: Inner City Oakland Youth Suffering From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
sanfrancisco.cbs.local ^ | May 16, 2014 | Wendy Tokuda

Posted on 05/16/2014 5:16:26 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012

OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — In the inner city, a health problem is making it harder for young people to learn. The Centers for Disease Control said 30 percent of inner city kids suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The CDC said these children often live in virtual war zones. Doctors at Harvard said they actually suffer from a more complex form of PTSD that some call “hood disease.” Unlike soldiers, children in the inner city never leave the combat zone. They often experience trauma, repeatedly. “You could take anyone who is experiencing the symptoms of PTSD, and the things we are currently emphasizing in school will fall off their radar. Because frankly it does not matter in our biology if we don’t survive the walk home,” said Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Ph.D. of San Francisco State University. In Oakland, about two thirds of the murders last year were actually clustered in East Oakland, 59 people killed.

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Well, that explains it!
1 posted on 05/16/2014 5:16:26 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

So? are we preparing to use htis an excuse not to lock up thier a##es?


2 posted on 05/16/2014 5:19:31 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ilovesarah2012

Get ready for more handouts! A free Odumbo phone and EBT card with every new case of Hood PTSD!


3 posted on 05/16/2014 5:19:43 PM PDT by SgtHooper (This is my tag!)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Counseling and lifetime financial support should take care of it..........


4 posted on 05/16/2014 5:20:07 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Under Reagan spring always arrived on time.....)
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To: ilovesarah2012

That goes without saying, for many kids growing up in a world of death and drugs, and hookers, and violence.

When you have a couple of dozen of your friends die before you get out of your teens, and death is routine, even 2 or 3 a month at times, it has an effect that most children don’t experience.


6 posted on 05/16/2014 5:21:26 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Black leadership has done such a wonderful job since MLK. They should all be so proud.


7 posted on 05/16/2014 5:29:52 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: ilovesarah2012

Actually that is probably not true. If they grew up under those circumstances they would consider that normal and their stress levels would actually be lower. Using the Progressive evolution theories, they would evolve into a higher form of animal within several decades ... look at Chicago or other major cities for verification of this fact.


8 posted on 05/16/2014 5:31:11 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Progressives (communists) lie because their expectations and promises never match reality.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Interactive Crime Map.

http://gismaps.oaklandnet.com/crimewatch/

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9 posted on 05/16/2014 5:32:31 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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http://gismaps.oaklandnet.com/crimewatch/


10 posted on 05/16/2014 5:33:22 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Could be worse. At least they don’t have affluenza.


11 posted on 05/16/2014 5:34:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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12 posted on 05/16/2014 5:35:03 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SgtHooper

THIS!


13 posted on 05/16/2014 5:37:00 PM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Put ‘em on a secret VA waiting list. They can be treated as soon as Hell freezes over.


14 posted on 05/16/2014 5:43:11 PM PDT by beelzepug (You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

It’s just an excuse ‘cause PTSD will get you full Disability benefits. They’ll claim it after a stint in the Big House if they didn’t grow up in the ‘hood anyway.


15 posted on 05/16/2014 6:01:05 PM PDT by MWFsFreedom
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Oakland was once a great city...


16 posted on 05/16/2014 6:12:48 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I blame RAP music and the inability of the Parents to raise children properly. Sex has replaced God.


17 posted on 05/16/2014 6:14:08 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be")
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To: ilovesarah2012

I can see where living in these “war zones” would make one insensitive to many things.

The solution is a dusk to dawn curfew and shoot on site those who break it. I would never really want that but something has to be done.


18 posted on 05/16/2014 6:14:43 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: MWFsFreedom

I feel some TAXPAYER PTSD coming on. Government gonna give me a check for that?


19 posted on 05/16/2014 6:52:34 PM PDT by abclily
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To: SgtHooper

Free sex changes for everyone who can flash a gang sign!


20 posted on 05/16/2014 6:52:41 PM PDT by twister881
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