I am grateful know and receive help from Michelle. She is awesome!

i have the complete opposite life, then these guys im so glad that i can learn about this . Everyone be blessed

I honestly don’t know how first responders can do this, I am incredibly grateful to have them there, yet at the same time, I also am incredibly worried for them, because they’re not Superman, there a human being, and no amount of Do you sensitizing training could ever prepare them for what they see in their day-to-day jobs. They see all the things most of us will never see, they see the dark as possible side of humanity, day after day, year after year, at one point or another it has got to affect them emotionally, so I think this is absolutely essential training for them. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with admitting that you’re a human being and that you need help, if anything I think it would go a long way to wards making them a better emergency responder, because if we give them the tools they need to cope with such devastating situations that they see every day of their lives, then we might be able to prevent so many of them who end up committing suicide, or get stuck on substance abuse just to deal with the trauma, then it’s all worth it. I’ve suffered from chronic and debilitating, even crippling depression, anxiety, and PTSD the vast majority of my life, and having worked in healthcare in a hospital for the past 20 years, I’ve seen so many things that would make your blood run cold, things that I just kept bottling up until I had a complete and total nervous breakdown. I couldn’t even leave my house, all I could do was scream and cry, it was just so overwhelming, to witness so much human misery and pain, yet you were expected to remain 100% professional and fully detached from the situation, but it doesn’t work that way. All the training on earth could never prepare anybody for the horrors that these poor people face every day of their lives, and I honestly believe this should be absolutely mandatory for every single first responder, because without it, their mental health will be absolutely destroyed within a matter of years if not months. I will never forget my very first car when I was working as a paramedic. I was called to an accident on the highway, or a drunk driver behind the wheel of an 18 wheeler crossed over the line and hit a minivan head on killing the mother, father, and five young children. It was a scene from the worst horror movie you could ever possibly imagine come to life, and I literally spent the day shovelling a child brain off the highway, I never forget when I went home that day, my hands were shaking, my eyes filled with tears to the point where I had to call my spouse to come pick me up because I couldn’t see the road. Medical school didn’t exactly prepare me for situations so horrific. My only saving grace, was to admit that I needed help, because without it there’s no way I could’ve continued in that job, but I did get the help that I needed and it made all the difference in the world, I only pray that all first responders are given the same opportunity, because never forget that they’re just a human being like everybody else, and the pain that they carry around inside is more than you could ever possibly imagine. Ps - One more case that I will never forget as long as I live, happened only a week after that first horrific event I witnessed. I work here in Toronto, where it’s incredibly common for people to commit suicide by jumping in front of subway trains. This particular person jumped right in front of the train as it was pulling into the station at full speed. The person was hit so hard they were automatically decapitated. That poor subway driver literally had this guys head break through the subway window and landed in her lap. She went into full psychiatric breakdown, can you imagine having a decapitated head fall into your lap after it breaks through your window? I took that call not knowing what to expect, obviously there was nothing we could do for the suicide, but the subway conductor was sitting in her chair with a dead man’s head in her lap, screaming at the top of her lungs, completely out of control, and it was my job to pick up the head off her lap and put it into a bag, then escort this poor subway driver to my ambulance. Just had a worry, I followed up with that poor driver. It took over a year of intensive therapy and many many stays at a psychiatric hospital before that particular person was even able to walk out of the door by herself, but with all the proper therapy, she was actually able to go back to work, we gave her the choice of going on disability but she refused, trouble is, She’s doing much much better now, but I will never get that image out of my mind that haunts me every single day of my life, this is why it’s so important for first responders to have full access to mental health professionals, if only you could see what they have to go through, you would understand.

This is HUGE. I discovered this issue with myself when leaving the first responder field(police, fire, & EMS) after 13 years of service. I started at 18 years old. It was all I knew. Eventually, depression along with social, family, and friend separation came from out of nowhere and is still a battle I fight everyday. I have maybe 2 friends that are police officers now, when at one time, all of my friends were. I feel abandoned from my "brotherhood"...I wish this bad dream would go away. Thank you for what you're doing for us all...

It’s great to know that there’s help out there from someone who seems very knowledgeable and mine to share her feelings. Never realized how overwhelmed first responders can be

Please keep these videos coming!! Honestly it's sad how stress officers can get and even first responders.

Fantastic and much needed lesson... with such knowledge all education and empathy expands.Great respect for this project 🕊️ Good luck 🕊️🤝 🍀

3:20+ wow this kind of open communication is so healthy and rare as one of many victims I too "get high from hyper vigilance awareness of threats" ho totally eye opening to hear all you long suspect so you generate assuming that might be the case yes no one should make our jobs any harder than they already are they knew this 60,000 years ago when they helped women (also a source of love relaxation calm) invent painting (Dean Snow )

You all worry about what you did to people and I forgive you❤

Mental illness is associated with impairment and this is the reason mental illness is stigmatized and a source of shame. However mental illness is associated with advantages which are rarely mentioned. For example people with depression are more realistic. People with anxiety are more alert, more aware of their environment, and more aware of what people are doing around them (ideal for law enforcement and security professionals). People with histrionic personality disorder are more creative and do well in jobs where imagination is helpful. People with borderline personality disorder experience emotions more intensely. People with obsessive compulsive personality disorder are very productive in work settings. When people become aware of the benefits and advantages of mental illness they may become more open to discussing mental illness.

after 19 years as an Officer Something finally gave. I now do not know what to do but I can not do this anymore. Im broken. At least my wife now understands. I'm trying to find a way out of Law Enforcement.

😔😔 today, PTSD become present me again

The solutions

Ghost busters? Hahahahhaa

And Customer Service is not hyper vigilant ?? Robbery, drug addiction, addicts, mental health, gun violence, and mass shooters, and that doesn't include psychopath and sociopath

If they view reaching out as weakness then they shouldn't be cops