GTA woman sells cheesecake to raise PTSD awareness after brother's suicide
Carole Rix has mended her broken heart with cheesecake. “Personally, I think he planned it and I think that’s why he reconnected with me that March,” she said. “But the last thing that we both shared together was that we were both baking cheesecakes at the time.” MAN ON A MISSION: Improving PTSD treatment personal for outgoing OPPA President Toronto cop opens up about mental health on eve of retirement BONOKOSKI: Ford government puts OPP suicides, PTSD on frontline “And people were asking me to still make cheesecake. And it kind of angered me at first because it brought back memories of my brother and eventually it got to the point where a few months later I thought, ‘I need to start doing something. I can’t just let this grief take me over, control my life in this negative way,'” Rix said. Six cupcake-size cheesecakes sell for $20 while 50 different varieties of a full-size cheesecake can go for $60 with a portion of the sales going towards Wounded Warriors Canada.
