‘For years, he kept records of platoon members he knew had survived the war. When the new phone book came out, he would check to see if they were still alive. But he never contacted them.’
Social support has repeatedly been shown to be one of the strongest protective factors against development of PTSD following highly traumatic events
Medric Cousineau is angry over Ottawa’s refusal to treat service dogs for PTSD sufferers the same as for other injured former soldiers.
‘This is just basic discrimination,’ says one vet, angry over Ottawa’s refusal to treat service dogs for PTSD sufferers the same as for other injured former soldiers.
From 2016: Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire’s raw and emotionally devastating memoir lays bare his own inner torment
Author Sebastian Junger asks what if PTSD is located not in the trauma of combat, but in the transition back to modern life?
How horrific personal tragedies drew three suffering Canadians—Amanda Lindhout, Omar Khadr, and Rinelle Harper—into a close, unlikely kinship
The first clinical trial in Canada is under way to test whether the party drug could be part of a treatment for those with PTSD
More and more people are turning to the courts for payback for anguish
Defence Minister Rob Nicholson lauds the government’s funding for troubled soldiers