To the first question, I went to an OSI clinic; those are the provincially operated federally funded clinics. It was the psychiatrist there who said “quick assessment”--and it wasn't quick, an hour and a half--and then that was it. There were no other additional treatments offered. I am exceptional in deception; I've been trained in it with the military. I went into that assessment saying I don't want to have PTSD, and insisted that I was okay just for my own benefit. That's why in terms of further diagnosis and getting people into these programs it is so essential to go through the community model, through the peer-to-peer model, because many military members will say “I don't have any issues, but I can name five of my buddies who are totally messed up and they need to get into these programs right away.” So I say we use that to get them in.
I also just want to mention something about the women. We are excited to start the first women's program in January. Professor Tim Black, of the University of Victoria, is going to be operating that and training two female psychologists on how to deliver it. I just want to say from personal experience that it is both the men and the women who fall victim to the hyper-masculine culture of organizations like the military. It's not gender-specific but it is culture-specific. It's a hyper-masculine culture--suck it up.