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  • Treat post-traumatic stress disorder in the Kaiserslautern military community.

  • Air Force Sergeant Paul Gonzales takes us to the Ramstein Mental Health Clinic.

  • [explosion] [Gonzales] Explosions, [gunfire] gunfire, and aircraft overhead,

  • These can all trigger post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

  • Virtual reality has helped veterans of Vietnam, the Gulf War, and Operation Iraqi Freedom

  • that suffer from PTSD. It virtually is putting them into that scenario,

  • but the objective is to address the anxiety, address the fears, address the thoughts going

  • through it. The idea is for them to kind of go back through

  • and finish telling their story and work their way through it.

  • [Gonzales] Patients can start the process of moving on and recovery.

  • Air Force Sergeant Paul Gonzales, Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

Treat post-traumatic stress disorder in the Kaiserslautern military community.

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