Wounded Warriors run to remember launches in Regina
They have seen things that most people can’t imagine, but for people living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), talking about their shared experience can be a way to heal. That is the point of the Wounded Warriors Weekend in Nipawin and the Run to Remember torch relay across Saskatchewan leading up to it.
For decades after his military tours with the British Armed Forces in Northern Ireland and the Gulf War, Chris Siddons didn’t know what was wrong with him.
“I just thought that that was how I was made, but when you hit rock bottom and you go and see somebody for some professional help, then the diagnosis and everything just fits into place,” he said.
Now living in Regina, he was diagnosed with PTSD in August 2014 after two attempted suicides in the same year.