also, you know, the softer side of healing. we do meditation and art therapy and yoga. i mean, it s they ve treated the special operations community in the u.s. military for two decades after the wars in iraq and afghanistan. they know what they re doing on tbi and they re really helping me and a lot of others who have been afflicted by havana syndrome. so do you know anything more about your circumstances, how you got havana syndrome? and what it s actually done to your body long-term? i mean, as you see these symptoms that are on our screen right here, there are changes in brain tissue compared to healthy adults, that kind of thing. tell us about that. well, look, this is the scary part. you know, during art therapy, several of the patients, you know, put a you know, created a painting and they called it a gunshot. it was a black canvas and a red splotch. and that signifies that we wish we had been shot because it was the silent and visible wound. what does it mean for the fu
in the state department as well, something pretty awful happened there. and for myself and many others, it s been an absolutely debilitating injury that s caused not only the need to retire but incredible mental health issues because ultimately this is a silent wound. a colleague of mine during some art therapy sessions at walter reed made this incredible painting. it s a black canvas and there s a red splotch on it that looks like blood. he called that the gunshot. we all wish we had been shot and had a more visible wound. so it s been a pretty awful experience and a journey that i never expected to be on. adam, in the new yorker recently you detailed the story of a 30-something working in the waning days of the trump dmrks leaves the eisenhower executive building headed to his car at the ellipse and is stricken with what marc is describing. begs the question, is the president safe? yeah, i mean in fact before that episode, there was an earlier episode involving
art therapy sessions at walter reed made this incredible painting. it s a black canvas and there s a red splotch on it that looks like blood. he called that the gunshot. and what that means is, we all wish we had been shot and had a more visible wound. so it s been a pretty awful experience and a journey that i never expected to be on. adam, in the new yorker recently you detailed the story of a 30-something working in the waning days of the trump administration, leaves the eisenhower executive building headed to his car at the ellipse and is stricken with what marc is describing. begs the question, is the president safe? yeah, i mean, in fact before that episode, there was an earlier episode involving another white house staff member who was walking her dog in alexandria, virginia, near her home where she saw a van parked across the street and a guy get out of the van and then she felt this extraordinary pain and sort of doubles over in pain.
courtyard, i heard somebody yelling do you want to shoot me? and i looked to my left which was his right and i saw somebody lying on their back on the concrete with what appeared to be a gunshot wound through the stomach. and i say that because there was a red splotch on his shirt and he wasn t moving. and at that point, i didn t really understand what was going on. until i saw the door that separated the courtyard from the street open up. and a police officer came in with an assault rifle. and at that point, i ran away. i put my skate board down and i exited the area. i went to the parking structure and escaped to the side and made it out okay. was the voice, could you discern whether the voice was male or female that said do you