Student's Documentary On PTSD

Student's Documentary On PTSD
Reported by: Greg Stotelmyer

Jason Edwards, 32, steps into an audio booth to lay down part of his voice track for a documentary he is doing this summer with his college instructor.

“This would be the largest deployment of National Guard soldiers overseas since World War 2,” he reads in his east Kentucky twang. “One of them was my brother. This is the story of Joe."

Joe Edwards is 26, the youngest of 3 boys in a family from Harlan, Ky. Jason is telling his brother’s story of struggles with PTSD in hopes of helping him while also enabling his brother to help others who have also struggled after returning home from a war zone.

Joe Edwards was deployed to Iraq for 18 months. Jason Edwards is using a 12 week summer internship as a broadcasting major at Eastern Kentucky University to face the family’s trauma head on.

“Honestly it's a therapy for both of us,” Jason said during a break with editing and post-production on the documentary.

“That's why we call the documentary Two Brothers,” Jason explained. “You know, because my brother that left is not the brother that came back."

In video clips of interviews with Joe Edwards he tells of the nightmares, anxiety, depression and drinking that came with PTSD.
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