“First Year They Sleep”

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What the film covers

Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP explains why a pain and regenerative medicine practice planted a tallgrass prairie outside its treatment room windows — and why that same sentence describes what happens to the people he treats.

• The scale of PTSD among American veterans, and how sharply it has risen
• Hyperacusis, and why noise is a clinical barrier rather than a preference
• Valor Villages, Valor #1 Housing, and what eight beds actually changed
• The horticulture retraining program and the trade it teaches
• What a restored prairie does to ground, water and pollinators
• Why the establishment year looks like failure — and what happens to prairies, and people, when somebody reaches for the mower

“We believe you. We’re not going to make you prove it first. We start by believing you, and then we measure — because you deserve both.”

Sourcing

Every figure spoken in the film was checked against its primary source before recording, and several claims from the original draft were corrected or removed in that process. The horticultural therapy trial is described as what it is — 211 psychiatric inpatients, not veterans. The green roof is described as planned, without a runoff figure attached to it. Where the veteran evidence is a pilot, the film says pilot.

The figures and their sources →