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| Lieutenant-colonel (retired) Stéphane Grenier in Montreal Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Grenier battles with PTSD which changed him from a soldier into a champion for mental health. Photo, Montreal Gazette |
From soldier to champion for mental health
Personal contact is key, he says
Charlie Fidelman, Calgary Herald/Postmedia News/Montreal Gazette, October 30, 2014
Stéphane Grenier stepped off a Hercules aircraft under a blast of gunfire with the Canadian peacekeeping forces during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. That, recalled the retired lieutenant-colonel, “was the beginning of the rest of my life.”
He became addicted to the adrenalin of dangerous war zones and peace missions — Afghanistan, Cambodia, Kuwait and Haiti to name a few — anything was better than home. Civilians, he felt, couldn’t relate to soldiers returning from war-torn areas with a combination of grief, stress, trauma and depression.
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