This is something that is pervasive throughout. For anybody to acknowledge that they are having mental health problems in any workplace is akin to career suicide in many cases. So much so.... The work the commission has done with the psychological safety standard for the workplace will hold equally well anywhere, in any workplace. What we have found is that people would rather suffer than actually admit they are suffering from mental health problems. To admit is to be seen as incompetent or unstable.
The standard that the commission has developed provides a number of tools—and not rules. This isn't something for which you have to do A, B, and C.
One of the critical pieces of that work is accessing the workplace at the very beginning. This can be done on a small scale or a larger scale. Oftentimes, we simply don't know what the situation is. So the very first step in the standard is to do a thorough analysis and assessment, which is not that hard to do. Then very small things can be implemented to address them.
The workplace standard isn't designed for military settings, but I think it's something that we could well look at generalizing.
But stigma is a huge problem; there's no question about it. It keeps 40% of adults who have kids with mental health problems from going for help.
When we extrapolate it to that kind of setting, it's bound to be far worse than that.