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Report from chicago and the epidemic of trauma, prevalence of guns and cycles of retaliation. >> was there ever a moment where you feared for your own life? >> every day. today. sitting here right here right now. hurry, its the final days of the ford year end sales event. ♪ im on top of the world, hey. ♪ its your last chance of the year to get our best offer of the year: zero percent financing for seventy-two months, plus an extra one-thousand cash back across a full lineup of ford cars, tru...

Finish the year with all three of you. enjoy your monday, if you can. >> thank you. >> that wraps it up for us this here on msnbc. im richard lui. stay with us for updates and breaking news. follow me on facebook, instagram and twitter. let me know what you think. "all in with chris hayes" is next. look at chicago. what the hell is going on in chicago? >> i dont know what theyre doing in chicago. to have this many shootings. >> what the hell is going on in chicago? >> this is the story of amer...

These reactions in their bodies that are like theyre back there in that situation, and they dont necessarily put that together that thats what the happening. [ sirens ] much of the violence is driven by untreated trauma. two of the ways that people often deal with that are to use substances. to manage their emotions, and to carry weaponss in order to feel safe. both of those things are going to increase the risk for them being harmed again or for them doing harm to somebody else. >> thats it. we...

I have been able to serve 153 families. >> 153 families? >> yes, sir. it is, but thats a reflection of whats happening in our city. >> her brother was murdered in 2008. now a family support specialist, she helps others heal. >> when you go into these communities, is there a sense that everyone is traumatized in some way? >> its hard to say they are not. because its not -- its not like every time i do an assessment with someone that they dont express positive to me that theyve experienced some le...

Viewing audience look at this and say, what can we do? this seems to far removed from my narrative or where i am or my place in life or the community. what they can do is support people like jamaal. what they can do is a port organizations that are going out as we have seen in the piece that are focused on fixing these efforts in the community. >> and there are some who are in chicago working spkly have on mental health, on dealing with trauma specifically. >> there are so many on the front line...

Reporter from a city in trauma. >> heard gunshots. sounded like a pack of firecrackers, somebody dropped them by your feet is how close they sounded. that very last shot, the window shatter es. when the bullet hit she didnt make a whimper, or cry. she didnt say anything. thats why i didnt know she was hit. just a split second. i wake up every day saying i hope that its a dream, but its not. its been one month. i have not heard my daughters voice, been able to touch her, see her dance across my f...

Different role than it trook, but i ended up changing my life. they are going through depression. i dont call it ptsd. i call it ctsd. its continuous. we look to leaders to figure out ways to solve this problem. what do we get? the mayor that shut down all the urban clinics, no funding when students have issues in schools. what happens? they go to the streets and the justice said it creating more trauma. >> there is not an expectation that people of color in urban communities deserve or are even...

>> your 3-year-old was in the car. have you seen a change in him? >> dramatic change. his attitude. his behavior. everything is different. i put him in counseling. i have no choice. because i dont know whats going on in his head. i dont know what hes thinking. >> are we doing enough to address trauma in this city? >> no. >> dr. brad stabach spent 35 years treating trauma in kids. hes from the university of chicago. >> there is a great need for all of us to say they are so young it didnt really e...

The same space. intense. >> and a lot of palpable traum m trauma. people lost people close to them, are survivors themselves. theres a lot of that. >> absolutely. im no strangs estranger to rea depression or ptsd. a lot of athe times youre dealing with your own need to survive in this environment and as an advocate, im responding to death and crisis and poverty and pain every single day. you kind of go on autopilot, but it affects you. theres no way you see the amount of death in the city and no...

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