Canadian Forces Step Up Efforts to Fight Stigma of Mental Illness

Three months after Steven Lively returned from central Africa in 1996, the Canadian Forces soldier started experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
Canadian Forces Step Up Efforts to Fight Stigma of Mental Illness
A Canadian Forces soldier hugs his wife goodbye before departing from Trenton Air Force Base in Trenton, Ontario, in November 1996 to travel to Zaire on a Canadian mission following the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda two years earlier. Carlo Allegri/AFP/Getty Images
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<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/CF-PTSD-Getty-52011165-cropped_medium.jpg"><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/CF-PTSD-Getty-52011165-cropped_medium.jpg" alt="A Canadian Forces soldier hugs his wife goodbye before departing from Trenton Air Force Base in Trenton, Ontario, in November 1996 to travel to Zaire on a Canadian mission following the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda two years earlier. (Carlo Allegri/AFP/Getty Images)" title="A Canadian Forces soldier hugs his wife goodbye before departing from Trenton Air Force Base in Trenton, Ontario, in November 1996 to travel to Zaire on a Canadian mission following the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda two years earlier. (Carlo Allegri/AFP/Getty Images)" width="320" class="size-medium wp-image-101266"/></a>
A Canadian Forces soldier hugs his wife goodbye before departing from Trenton Air Force Base in Trenton, Ontario, in November 1996 to travel to Zaire on a Canadian mission following the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda two years earlier. (Carlo Allegri/AFP/Getty Images)
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