I think the big problem is that when we chose to be career military, it wasn't our eighth choice. The military was my first choice. If I hadn't joined the Canadian Armed Forces, I would have gone to the United States or the United Kingdom. I would still have been in the military.
I'm speaking for myself, but it's pretty much the same for all my friends. We're ashamed. We were tough guys in the military. We went to Afghanistan. But when we come home, we're on medication, we're curled up in bed, we have snot running down our noses, we're crying our eyes out. Excuse my language, but we poop and piss ourselves. We can no longer be men with our partners because of the medication. We lose control of ourselves. When that happens, we feel ashamed. We don't call our friends.
That's the mistake all veterans make, but veterans shouldn't be left alone.