Absolutely, unfortunately, despite the amazing efforts that the CF has been making. I have friends and colleagues who've worked on the road to mental readiness program. There are incredible efforts to battle the stigma and change attitudes, but I can't say that I see.... Mind you, remember that I see a very biased group. I see the people who are not well. They tell me that the stigma is alive and well and is not really changing all that much.
I think we have to do something else, something different. What I propose is that we communicate that PTSD is treatable and you can resolve it through treatment. If it stops being a life sentence the way the media has been portraying it lately, and the way patient groups have been portraying it, I think the stigma might then change. If it means that you go into treatment for a few months or maybe a year shortly after the time you've experienced the difficult events, then the whole face of this problem changes.
I don't think the information is out there that there are treatments that work. In fact, I feel like turning the tables around and asking you if you've been hearing from psychologists, because it's in psychology that these treatments have been developed and researched. Have you been hearing from psychologists? Have you been hearing this message that treatments do work, they exist, and we have them now? We've had them for many years.