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A lot of the memories and a lot of the the thoughts that I'd kept I guess buried in my mind had a chance to emerge and they they emerged with a vengeance. Who's entitled to experience PTSD? Is it just men and women with guns pointed at their heads, with grenades and bombs

exploding around them? Evidence shows that it's not simple. PTSD reaches deep and sometimes all you need is enough quiet to feel it.

You're listening to Reuters War College, a discussion of the world in conflict, focusing

on the stories behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts, Jason Fields, and Matthew Gault.

Hello and Matthew Gault.

Hello and welcome to War College. I'm Matthew Gault with Royders.

And I'm Matthew Galt with Wars Boring.

Journalists are by definition non-combatants.

That doesn't mean they don't experience things that leave them scarred.

Dean Yates covered the nightclub bombing in Bali in Indonesia in 2002.

He was also Reuters Baghdad Bureau Chief in 2007, which was a time of horrible violence there.

And Dean will be the first to tell you that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

So, D, thank you for joining us first.

My pleasure.

So can we just start off by talking a little bit about your career.

Tell us some of the things that you've done.

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