Today we're dealing with PTSD in a way we've never dealt with it before. It's being accepted. The leadership is starting to deal with PTSD, and they've never dealt with it before. We're at the really beginning stages of making an impact.
I'll go to one of the other comments that you made. Are the resources there? Are the systems there? No, they're not. We're good at dealing with physical injury, because we know how to do it--we can see it, we can touch it, we can fix it--but when you're dealing with a psychological injury, you don't see it, you can't feel it, and how do you touch it? You have to rely on the individual to self-identify, and if he or she won't self-identify, then you have a real problem of getting through to the individual.
I always relate to a story of the young guy from the Eastern Townships who went through an IED. I'm not sure if he was a reservist or in the regular forces, but he went back home on convalescence. If I recall correctly, the individual on the battlefield basically tried to take his life at that point, and his comrades stopped him. He went back home. How many attempts did he make until, finally, he was successful? There should have been a lot of red flags up there, shouldn't there, to deal with that individual? We didn't deal with it. He went home. Was he isolated? Yes. We missed one. We really did.
There are a whole bunch of issues there, but it's cultural. It's a new thing. Do we have the resources right now? No, we don't have the resources to treat everything. This is the start of trying to get those resources, because you need to have things identified and you need to understand what the requirements are. That's why we need more research to identify those requirements. Then maybe we can start moving on into good programs.
I'm talking too long.