Wendy Tokuda

@Elle_Sweetest @CBSSF the cdc reports inner city kids have higher rates of ptsd than soldiers. more at: google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j…

@so_treu @MoreAndAgain i didn't mean to mislead people - i'm sorry if i did.,cdc says inner city kids have higher rate of ptsd than soldiers

@politiquestions @MoreAndAgain i just regret using the term at all. but we never said the cdc or harvard coined the term.

@MoreAndAgain cdc reports inner city kids show a higher rates of PTSD than soldiers, because they are essentially living in combat zones

@MoreAndAgain cocky, i regret using the term.i truly did not create tfor those purposes. my story said, "some people call it hood disease",.

@MoreAndAgain we never said the cdc or harvard coined the term. we said "some people call it hood disease". still i regret using it

@nprkyoung @jenbutlr @TheRoot thank you- we never said the cdc or harvard coined the term. we said some people call it...

@jenbutlr i think the use of the term at all was a mistake and the story has been overshadowed. complex ptsd is a real problem.

@nprkyoung @jenbutlr thanks kenya- i so appreciate that. i is heartbreaking that the discussion has gotten off track.its painful.

@MoreAndAgain the term hood disease came from someone in east oakland. i regret using it. we never said the cdc or harvard coined it.

@jenbutlr yes. you're right.

@jenbutlr the term came from a person who lives in east oakland who says thats what they call it. i should have just stopped there.

@jenbutlr so my intentions are good. i just made a mistake using a term that has now gone viral.

@jenbutlr i feel so bad about this.. for 16 years i have reported on low income kids who want to go to college-students rising above

@jenbutlr the second is to hopefully create more attention that will lead to more solutions. we are not using the term hood disease anymore.

@jenbutlri i don't think most people out in the world know what kids in the inner city have to live with day after day. thats one issue

@jenbutlr my intention was to talk about a very real problem for these kids who are NOT getting help. we did second story on solutions.

@jenbutlr because we made a mistake. got the phrase from a guy in east oakland who said that was what they called it. i regret using it

@Elle_Sweetest @Ethnography911 @CBSSF local expert told us harvard school of public health developed the diagnosis: complex PTSD

@Ethnography911 @CBSSF and we are trying to erase the words "hood disease" from our webpage, etc.. this is really painful