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A tough job for sure. All first responders and front line emergency crews need support. Glad to see some have the courage to show their pain for the better of all.

I am very glad that people are standing together when it comes to bringing awareness to PTSD and the lack of help for it, but I am also saddened because there are thousands of people who have PTSD that aren't in a career field that has been the cause who also have lack of help and struggle for their lifetime because of it. It is a debilitating, lonely, and terrifying thing to live with. It is overall still a very hush hush thing to talk about which is ridiculous given how many actually have PTSD. There needs to be more available for everyone with it no matter where their PTSD came from. The cost of a specialized therapist is $120+, and if you don't have the coverage or money for it, you are on your own. It shouldn't be that way.

kamloops is building a national ptsd centre .


https://www.google.ca/amp/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3817924

Another group often overlooked with respect to the issue of PTSD are hospital staff who have to deal with a huge amount of trauma. How do they do their jobs and then go home to be mom's, or dad's or coaches or volunteers after heavy days? Truly amazing people.

I ask myself, if they can't deal with truckloads of dead babies and other traumatizing gore, why did they get into that line of work in the first place.

Bman wrote:I ask myself, if they can't deal with truckloads of dead babies and other traumatizing gore, why did they get into that line of work in the first place.

Probably to help people. Ya know, the whole humanity thing. It is incredibly rewarding to see lives saved. These people are human though they all have emotion. If a requirement of the job was not to have emotion no humans would ever qualify.

I ask myself, if they can't deal with truckloads of dead babies and other traumatizing gore, why did they get into that line of work in the first place.

Fair question.
PTSD is an odd ailment that kind of sneaks up and plants a little worm in your brain. You may not even be aware that it is in there.
At the time of the traumatic event....you may think of yourself as a stone cold, dead eye killer who is completely unaffected by what you are experiencing. "PTSD is for *bleep*...stack them high says I!"

But in time, you start recalling this event...maybe in a dream one night....maybe at your kids birthday BBQ. The memory trigger can be a smell, or a sound, or even some image you see in a magazine.

It is truly insidious.....and I think the police and fire/rescue services can be bombarded with these traumatic events over and over again. It wears you down and stays with you years after you leave the service.

Self medication (alcohol) or blowing your brains out is "old school".
Luckily, their is more help out there these days.

Leifer wrote:Fair question.
PTSD is an odd ailment that kind of sneaks up and plants a little worm in your brain. You may not even be aware that it is in there.
At the time of the traumatic event....you may think of yourself as a stone cold, dead eye killer who is completely unaffected by what you are experiencing. "PTSD is for *bleep*...stack them high says I!"

But in time, you start recalling this event...maybe in a dream one night....maybe at your kids birthday BBQ. The memory trigger can be a smell, or a sound, or even some image you see in a magazine.

It is truly insidious.....and I think the police and fire/rescue services can be bombarded with these traumatic events over and over again. It wears you down and stays with you years after you leave the service.

Self medication (alcohol) or blowing your brains out is "old school".
Luckily, their is more help out there these days.

Well said, I also say the "The mind is a wonderful thing, until you lose it." You may deal well with trauma for years and then one critical incident can cause you to have issues. It is a difficult thing to deal with and I feel anyone who has been in these situations can be or are affected, it only depends how badly or how they cope with what they have lived.

A very close friend of mine gives this example, he is a specialist in the field of PTSD. You could be driving past a serious accident. You may actually witness the incident and deaths and not be impacted. When you relay this information to someone else it is possible to trigger their minds as the circumstances put someone near to them in it, real or not and they can actually be traumatized.

Bman wrote:I ask myself, if they can't deal with truckloads of dead babies and other traumatizing gore, why did they get into that line of work in the first place.

Very good question.

I don't have the answer but I'm sure glad they do.

I don't think anyone can predict the effects on workers or who's most likely to not be effected.