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Ask how enbrel can help relieve joint pain and help stop joint damage. enbrel, the number one rheumatologist-prescribed biologic. extreme ptsd makes war vets prone to dark moods, rage, and violence. for libby, a recluse from arkansas, her story of trauma begins in the 1980s, and shes sharing it with me here away from the others. >> why did you want to come here? >> i would like to not wish to die all the time. id like to be able to live. >> can you tell us what happened to you? >> i was out on...

>> tonight libby and richard will take a radical step, accompanied by ryan and bob. instead of popping prescription pills theyll drink a psychedelic brew. a familiar ceremony. a new shaman. this one born here in the amazon. bob purges as richard and libby succumb to the effects of the hallucinogen. but something about this night feels different. ryan is on cloud nine, dancing, then communing with nature. back in the hut, it appears bob has left in a panic after the shaman blessed him with

Was 67 wounded and 11 killed. there was a guy about -- sorry. i wasnt expecting this. >> we aint got to go there, bob. >> bob is a vietnam army infantryman long suffering from ptsd. he claims ayahuasca has cured him. hes returned to peru to support fellow soldiers richard, a marine sergeant who did two tours in iraq, and libby, an airman first class whose ptsd diagnosis includes sexual trauma while on active duty. >> how has the ptsd affected you all these years? >> relationships. i cant hold th...

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And then left me in a ditch. >> how old were you? >> 21. >> what were you like before that happened? >> i was pretty outgoing. now im kind of just a shell. mainly an isolated person, a depressed person. just messed up in the head. >> did you ever get any justice? >> no. >> has the v.a. been helpful to you? >> not really. you know, when you go through every kind of pill they offer, you are just grasping at straws. >> its hard to imagine living that way for decades. >> it is, isnt it? im kind of a...

Psychedelic brew. a familiar ceremony. a new shaman. this one born here in the amazon. bob purges as richard and libby succumb to the effects of the hallucinogen. but something about this night feels different. ryan is on cloud nine, dancing, then communing with nature. back in the hut, it appears bob has left in a panic after the shaman blessed him with ceremonial smoke. the ceremony is fairly different from the one the other night.

He was opened up from here down to here. and i saw his -- this skin just fly off, and it was flapping in the breeze like a flag. im staring at this guy, and he -- thats when we knew its going to be over soon. and the last body count i got was 67 wounded and 11 killed. there was a guy about -- sorry. i wasnt expecting this. >> we aint got to go there, bob. >> bob is a vietnam army infantryman long suffering from ptsd. he claims ayahuasca has cured him. hes returned to peru to support fellow soldi...

>> the ceremony is fairly different from the one the other night. bob, for example, just stormed out and apparently feels overwhelmed by something. ryan just seems like hes having the time of his life and dancing and just overjoyed. richard is obviously going through something. its hard to tell what, and libby is just kind of curled in a ball. and it seems like shes in a little bit of pain. so obviously its kicking in, and its manifesting itself in different ways. >> concerned for bob, i head of...

Instead of popping prescription pills theyll drink a psychedelic brew. a familiar ceremony. a new shaman. this one born here in the amazon. bob purges as richard and libby succumb to the effects of the hallucinogen. but something about this night feels different. ryan is on cloud nine, dancing, then communing with nature. back in the hut, it appears bob has left in a panic after the shaman blessed him with ceremonial smoke. the ceremony is fairly different

Only with xfinity from comcast. extreme ptsd makes war vets prone to dark moods, rage, and violence. for libby, a recluse from arkansas, her story of trauma begins in the 1980s, and shes sharing it with me here away from the others. >> why did you want to come here? >> i would like to not wish to die all the time. id like to be able to live. >> can you tell us what happened to you? >> i was out one night after training and was taken by the marines, and each one of them took their turn. and the...