It wasn’t until psychologist number three that retired warrant officer Brian McKenna was able to find someone who, in his words, “had a clue.”
McKenna, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan now living in Vancouver, had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and had been trying unsuccessfully for years to find a mental-health professional who could understand and help him.
“A lot of the questioning coming out of the practitioner was more to the effect of: ‘Well, if you got blown up this day, why did you go back out next day?’” he recalls of his first stab at finding assistance….