PTSD is quietly perilous, the residues of injury which remain and misshape the mind and body. Lady Percy in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I practically explains it much better than anybody else up until the 20th century — “Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war, and thus hath so bestirred thee in thy sleep, that beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream; and in thy face strange motions have appeared.”


While there are numerous excellent imaginary motion pictures about PTSD, there have not been numerous excellent documentaries. HERE. IS. MUCH BETTER. intends to alter that by offering extraordinary gain access to inside treatment sessions of males and females Veterans fighting PTSD.

Directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jack Youngelson (who dealt with the outstanding Ghosts of Abu Ghraib), HERE. IS. MUCH BETTER. will be launched in choose theaters on June 23, with a Video on Demand release on all significant platforms in the United States and Canada to follow on June 27, timed to National PTSD Awareness Day. You can have a look at an exclusive clip and more info below.


Veterans Share Their Moving Stories

The main summary checks out as follows:

A soldier’s story is constantly individual, however never ever more than in HERE. IS. MUCH BETTER. This effective function length documentary uses a uniquely enthusiastic and impactful point of view on an increasing psychological health crisis in America. Every year, almost 13 million grownups experience posttraumatic tension condition (PTSD) in the U.S. alone. Veterans depend on 3 times most likely to have PTSD than civilians.HERE. IS. MUCH BETTER. follows 4 of these Veterans, each with varied backgrounds and service experience, as they go through the most medically reliable, evidence-based injury psychiatric therapies for PTSD. Individuals included in the movie consist of previous governmental enthusiastic Jason Kander, who stunned numerous when he left the Kansas City mayoral race in 2018 to look for treatment; a Vietnam War Veteran still haunted by occasions that took place over 50 years earlier; and the voices of so typically ignored females Veterans, all looking for the secrets to open their locations of hurt and discomfort. With extraordinary access to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, HERE. IS. MUCH BETTER. links these motivating stories of males and females Veterans conquering the incapacitating impacts of PTSD with treatments that can work, bringing wish to millions.

Adding emotionality to the movie is an effective rating made up by David Baron and Jeremiah Fraites of The Lumineers, (and an initial end credit tune by David Kushner and Wesley Schultz). Dominic Patten of Deadline called the documentary, “One of the most moving movies I have actually seen in years, documentary or otherwise,” and for anybody who was moved by the current outstanding documentary Wildcat, or who normally has compassion for individuals throughout the ideological spectrum, HERE. IS. MUCH BETTER. need to be a must-watch.

HERE. IS. MUCH BETTER. will be launched theatrically in New York (The Quad) and Los Angeles (Laemmle Santa Monica) on June 23, with a North American Video on Demand release to follow on June 27.