Mental Illness and Tom Lawson

Tom Lawson: Gen. Tom Lawson told a defence conference Friday that the military is moving away from the notion that suffering in silence with mental illness and trauma is acceptable, according to Huffington Post. "It was sobering to realize my grandfather came from a generation that, perhaps necessarily, buried their traumas and grief, and then to realize the military culture likely has had a lot of difficulty moving from that stoicism, even though we're almost 100 years downstream," Lawson said and National Defence has hired seven mental-health workers who are among two dozen health professionals offered jobs after a series of suicides last fall, says the country's top military commander. He related a story about reading his grandfather's journals from the Royal Flying Corps of the First World War, saying he was struck by how much soldiers of previous generations held things in. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.