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Dr. John Bradford remembers taking the block heater cable, the kind of cable that doesn’t stretch, into the house.

He had just returned home from visiting his daughter, his eldest girl, in Montreal. On the highway back to Ottawa, he thought about driving his car into an overpass. But he worried. “What happens if you survive?” he remembers thinking, “and you’re left paraplegic?”

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Inside his house, he thought about where he could loop the cable. He wondered if he would leave a suicide note.

He was in the most lethal phase of post-traumatic stress disorder, a deadly dissociative state where nothing seems real “and you’re only thinking about one thing.”

Then, his daughter called from Montreal. “I’m worried about you,” she said softly.

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