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There is a standard of care comprehensive mental health evaluation which includes spending enough time with the individual that he will trust you to tell you what's really going on in. >> so i'm not going to give you the first time we meet? >> very unlikely. if he's really, really distressed, yes, it will come out because people are off guard at that moment. people will mental illness are not more violent. vets returning with ptsd are not more violent. let's talk about the system and what the army and the military are doing. i think they've improved tremendously. we can't say things like the m...

Postmortem that i'm sure the army will look at. when we are treating someone with ptsd, there's a lot of levels you look at. you look at their background. you look at their social stressors. you look at the medication they're on. was it right, was it effect active. a lot of systems like ptsd can be misdiagnosed. that person on certain medications can increase the risk for problems, they have to be closely monitored throughout this whole process. he may have had problem care and didn't respond. all those things will have to be reviewed. >> sticking to the military aspe aspect, the suicide rate ...

Forms, veterans will lie. i've treated veterans reporting to me homicide l thoughts, suicidal thoughts. they're not going to the va because they're concerned. this is not the military's fault. i don't criticize the military for this. but it's an unusual circumstance. if you're my psychiatrist, you can call my boss, you can call my commander. you should call my commander. so what i've seen is that there really is a bias to underreport. yes, he reported anxiety, depression, maybe symptoms of ptsd. that doesn't mean he reported, i'm thinking about killing myself. >> he underwent -- >> no. i heard...

And depression. we understand that he was taking a variety of medications, chris. everything from anti-depressants to the drug ambien. we also know had was being evaluated for ptsd, but not officially diagnosed. this is all very out of character for people who knew this soldier. people describe him as a good soldier, a person with a lot of values. not the person that shot and killed three people, injured 16. three of the people in critical condition, we know, were updated to serious condition yesterday. >> that's good to hear, george. the information about people fighting their way through as ...

Stop calling it ptsd, disorder. if you call it a disorder, you're discouraging the veterans from getting the help they need, telling them there's something wrong with them. i think we should give him credit for that. as we get back to new york, you ever show up at the wrong office? >> not recently. >> ever shown up at the wrong office? >> member of the united states senate, dan coates. >> i'm at the wrong hearing. >> oh, okay. >> i've got the right room number, but the wrong hearing. >> i saw some familiar faces. >> i hope it's not a precursor of what may -- >> republican of indiana. we're n...