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As Lionel Desmond completed an 11-week program for veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder in August 2016, those responsible for his care were worried about something they couldn’t figure out.
Though he displayed symptoms considered common among combat soldiers diagnosed with PTSD, he was making little progress under treatments that usually produced results.
Inquiry hears something stood in the way of Lionel Desmond s treatment for PTSD
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On Jan. 3, 2017, veteran Lionel Desmond shot his daughter, mother, wife and then himself in a home in Upper Big Tracadie, N.S. An inquiry into the fatalities continued on Friday.(Dave Irish/CBC)
The military psychiatrist to first treat Lionel Desmond after he was released from the military said the veteran s post-traumatic stress disorder included dissociative events that would send him back to Afghanistan for minutes at a time.
Dr. Anthony Njoku, who testified Friday at the fatality inquiry in Nova Scotia, described Desmond s PTSD as severe when they met in 2015 and said he felt from the beginning Desmond would benefit from in-patient treatment.