You give me a very nice opening, because as I said, I sit as a member of both NICE and the Canadian Coalition for Seniors Mental Health. I definitely think we should be as willing to talk, to educate, to communicate about mental health disorders—the risk factors, the potential solutions to them—to make it as open a conversation around mental health issues, be they PTSD, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or other conditions, as we are to talk about the potential for your getting diabetes or heart disease or any of the other much more acceptable medical diagnoses.
Many of us in the mental health community are hoping there will be an opening up of the dialogue through the new mental health commission, for example, and that people will start to feel as comfortable in any professional context, be it soldiering or nursing or whatever it happens to be, talking about mental health issues as they are talking about any other health issues.