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Suffered from real mental issues, dissociative disorder, conversion disorder, which meant he could be violent if he felt he was under attack. and that awful morning? first he told the police she threatened to sic her well-armed boyfriend on him. >> and she said, "no, you know, im looking to have my boyfriend get rid of you." >> reporter: and then -- >> she was coming at me with a vee of scissors. >> reporter: rachels dad, don, and self-described soulmate, soulmate, james, watched as the defense ...

Episode. but here at trial, a defense psychiatrist testified todd suffered from real mental issues, dissociative disorder, conversion disorder, which meant he could be violent if he felt he was under attack. and that awful morning? first he told the police she threatened to sic her well-armed boyfriend on him. >> and she said, "no, you know, im looking to have my boyfriend get rid of you." >> reporter: and then -- >> she was coming at me with a vee of scissors. >> reporter: rachels dad, don, and...

With dissociative disorder, a neurosis that warped his view of reality. not exactly what the air force wanted in a fighter pilot. >> and because of events and the determinations by the air force psychiatrists, he was retired medically with a 50% disability. >> reporter: and there was that incident in amsterdam. remember? rachel told james about it. it happened just before he was due to make an important presentation at a conference. that time he appeared to black out, became catatonic, ended up ...

Conversion disorder, which meant he could be violent if he felt he was under attack. and that awful morning? first he told the police she threatened to sic her well-armed boyfriend on him. >> and she said, "no, you know, im looking to have my boyfriend get rid of you." >> reporter: and then -- >> she was coming at me with a vee of scissors. >> reporter: rachels dad, don, and self-described soulmate, soulmate, james, watched as the defense argued that todd had no choice but to kill the woman they...

Nothing wrong with him and released him. rachel told james he faked the episode. but here at trial, a defense psychiatrist testified todd suffered from real mental issues, dissociative disorder, conversion disorder, which meant he could be violent if he felt he was under attack. and that awful morning? first he told the police she threatened to sic her well-armed boyfriend on him. >> and she said, "no, you know, im looking to have my boyfriend get rid of you." >> reporter: and then -- >> she was...

Suffered from real mental issues, dissociative disorder, conversion disorder, which meant he could be violent if he felt he was under attack. and that awful morning? first he told the police she threatened to sic her well-armed boyfriend on him. >> and she said, "no, you know, im looking to have my boyfriend get rid of you." >> reporter: and then -- >> she was coming at me with a vee of scissors. >> reporter: rachels dad, don, and self-described soulmate, soulmate, james, watched as the defense ...

Conversion disorder and the cross the weapon was used to assert the faith it was only the soul that made a young frank a man and a worry and if the friend was of noble blood the blade would likely have come from spent the most famous armor in the round. the inscription marked it out as a state of the arts blade there were no better swords to be found any. around four hundred of these blades have been found usually in the graves of significant men a warrior was given his weapons to take with him ...

He told one doctor he was too stressed to work and when he visited an eye doctor complaining of vision problems he was told the cause was psycho systematic. our experts are here. lets continue the analysis. unfit to work psycho systematic could that effect his vision if he were going to major mental issues? >> absolutely. psycho systematic illnesses are dramatic. you can be blind. theres psycho systematic blindness. all sorts of things yes. >> explain the psycho systematic condition, what that m...

>> so these folks arent lying, they actually believe it. >> so the hiccups, they just might be mimicking the other students? >> well, mimicking without knowing it. first of all, lets settle on the fact that weve got to exclude the medical here. first. because youd hate to find out that something medical is causing this. but if they had the hiccups, theyre not mimicking, theyre literally having these things happen for no physiological reason. its a conversion disorder wherein they believe they ha...

tunisia. thats footage from the meeting. they spoke about the violation that claimed 91 lives today. there was a warning for the assad regime. >> assad can still make the choice to end the violation, save lives, and spare his country from descending further into ruin. but if he continues to reject that choice, we and the syrian people will keep pressure on him until his deadly regime cracks and collapses, because it will. im absolutely confident of that. >> earlier today president obam...