Who do you think had more spent on him, this fine officer or the waste of skin called Li. Yet forget or only spend a pittance on those who have experienced mental trauma protecting our society. we will spend hundreds of thousands making sure those who have harmed a member of society get proper treatment. Sometimes just seeing comrades and brothers all dealing with the same thing we know what each other has been through without talking about it so instead we can go and raise a beverage and think of the good times we can enjoy and look forward to. Some people can deal with thim and live a relatively normal life, and others can't exorcise the demons. In PTSD regret is a huge thing and I am sure that every time that officer saw Li in the news he saw that mutilated human being and wished he could have done more to "maintain the right". The hardest thing for a person to live with is regret. There used to be closure, now Li instead of just crawling into hole until he dies uses his "rights" to continue to inflict damage on society. Really suicide is murder of ones own self. it is a very short step from suicide to murder. As for the seperated spouse, she probably left at his request or because she felt she was in danger. The worst part about PTSD is those that study it don't have it so they don't understand it. !/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_960/image.jpg Let us have a list of where they were before and are now. "But what happens after that? Let us give them the tools. "They are trained to be in control and control their emotions when in chaos," said Wilson, whose husband was diagnosed with PTSD. Lori Wilson, founder of the Friends of the RCMP for PTSD Awareness, said not a week goes by that she doesn't hear about a current or former RCMP member facing a mental-health crisis. Its objectives include improving employee understanding in the intervention of psychological problems, reducing the presence and effects of psychological risks and measuring the force's psychological health-and-safety performance annually.Ī recent audit found 38 per cent of RCMP members who are on long-term sick leave said mental-health problems are to blame. He said the force already offers help to its members and a five-year mental-health strategy, announced in May, will provide more. Commissioner Gilles Moreau said the force offers its condolences to Barker's family. Shari went there and the front door was open and she called for him and he didn't respond. "He would say the front door will be open and don't go into the basement. ![]() The two women rescued Barker from a suicide attempt in May, but no one got to him in time this past weekend. He sent text messages like 'I think I'm too broken to ever be fixed' and he would also say 'I wish I had cancer because then people would understand.' " "It was a very rapid decline in the last six months. "With Vince Li getting in the paper about his walks, he started getting flashbacks," she said. Walder said her brother's treatment was coming along - and while he was still a dog handler, he was stationed at the airport and bus depots instead of responding to slayings - but last fall things began changing. RELATED: Traumatized women sue over Greyhound beheading "Today (Wednesday) would have been our 26th anniversary," she said. Shari also said his illness didn't just force him to retire - it also cost him his marriage. Shari and Barker's sister, Wendy Walder, said he did get psychiatric help while with the RCMP and during his short retirement, but they both said the force has to do more to address the stigma attached to its members battling mental illness. Shari Barker, the former officer's estranged wife, said Wednesday her husband was a sensitive man who did not want to be known as the Greyhound guy.īarker, who had two adult children, retired last month and had been on medical leave since October. Tim McLean was stabbed, mutilated and beheaded by Vince Li, who was later found not criminally responsible because of mental illness.īarker's family say they're speaking out about the suicide in the hope more Mounties will seek help. Ken Barker, a recently retired RCMP corporal who was a dog handler, killed himself last weekend after struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder for years.įamily and former colleagues say the 51-year-old had already seen almost two decades of horrific crimes when he witnessed the grisly scene on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Winnipeg in 2008. One of the first police officers on the scene of the beheading of a young man aboard a Greyhound bus on a Manitoba highway six years ago has taken his own life. Mountie suffering PTSD after Greyhound bus beheading takes own life
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