The Anxiety Podcast

Summary:In this episode I talk toStephane Grenier about his own experience with PTSD from militaryservice in Rwanda to changing the language around PTSD and drivingpeer support programs. Stephane Grenier is a Veteran of the Canadian Military whoretired as a Lieutenant Colonel following 29 years of service andnumerous overseas missions such as in Cambodia, Haiti, Lebanon, andKuwait. Most notably, he spent 10 months in Rwanda in 1994/95 andsix months in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2007. Faced with undiagnosed PTSD upon return from Rwanda, he took apersonal interest in the way the Canadian Forces was dealing withmental health issues; a mission he has now decided to broaden tothe entire Canadian workforce through his work in developing nonclinical mental health interventions as a complement to traditionalclinical care. In 2010 he was seconded to the Mental HealthCommission of Canada and since his retirement from the military in2012, Grenier has founded a charity and created Mental HealthInnovations, a social enterpr