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 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)