New documentary explores use of psychedelics to treat combat veterans with PTSD
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🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For many veterans, the battle doesn't end when they come home. |
| 0:04.4 | The invisible wounds of combat, like post-traumatic stress disorder, can leave some feeling withdrawn or isolated. |
| 0:10.9 | Tomorrow, a new documentary premieres on Netflix, entitled In Waves and War. |
| 0:16.0 | It follows a group of former Navy SEALs as they confront their trauma and find healing through an unconventional tool, guided psychedelic therapy. |
| 0:25.4 | This is just one of those points in medicine where I've got to have the courage to jump. |
| 0:32.3 | That medicine takes you right to the crest and fall off. |
| 0:37.5 | Ali Rogan spoke to the film's director, John Shank, |
| 0:40.8 | and one of the Navy SEALs featured in the film, Marcus Capone. |
| 0:44.8 | Thank you both so much for being here. |
| 0:46.9 | Marcus, the beginning of the film is you and some of your fellow team members |
| 0:52.0 | talking about the trauma that you experienced, |
| 0:54.8 | not only on the battlefield, but interestingly, well before you all joined the military. |
| 1:01.5 | Tell me about that. |
| 1:03.0 | You know, I think from the film and the themes that come out of the film, |
| 1:07.7 | that I think a lot of this started potentially when we were, you know, |
| 1:11.1 | at young ages, child, you know, four or five years old, 10 years old. |
| 1:14.7 | It's something I think we've never talked about. |
| 1:16.6 | And I think having traumatic experiences at a young age is potentially what forces us to go |
| 1:23.1 | into certain careers as a special operator or other high risk or I would say protector type fields. |
| 1:32.0 | And for us, it was special operations. |
| 1:34.9 | And it's something that if you ask any one of us, we would never look back. |
| 1:39.5 | We would never do something different. |
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