Is it the same question? Okay.
As I said, we're newly into this. It's only been a year, and it's only six months since it became relevant to us what was happening with her. She is being treated by the psychiatrist on the base at Borden; she sees him once a week on Thursdays.
She has been put into psychiatric units, which I am totally dismayed about. It's for assessment, they say. It tells my daughter and all these soldiers that people think they're crazy, and they're not crazy.
The first time they put her into a mental hospital, there was a seasoned soldier who had seen four tours in Afghanistan and two in Bosnia. He was a pretty strong, brave guy. He called me. He was terrified walking down those halls. There were people running at him, yelling and screaming. There were people spitting. I asked what was going on there. When he went into her room there was a lady on a phone screaming in German and running around her room. He looked over and my soldier was in the corner or her bed, as far as she could get, with the sheets pulled up, and he said she was shaking like he had never seen anybody shake. All she could say was, “Why do they have me here?” I was astounded when I heard this.
So then I started asking around, and other parents and spouses have the same stories. I talked to one spouse who couldn't even go into the mental institution to see her husband. She was terrified. She got through the door—she made three attempts on three different occasions, but because of what she saw, people chopping wood and stacking it, and another one spinning around and yelling.... Her husband said the same thing to her: “What have you done to me?” He blamed her.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is so wrong.