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Undercover agent charges the hall ptsd undercover Jul 09, 2025

My wife and I were at home. It was the middle of the night, the first year we were married, and we were asleep in our apartment in the downtown area o...

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EMT wonders how he’d handle same situation moral injury paramedic / emt Jul 02, 2025

Pretty quick into the George Floyd thing I learned that a first responder— a paramedic like me— stood there and filmed the entire interaction. Her iPh...

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Sleeping veteran takes cover military ptsd Jun 25, 2025

I didn’t think a whole lot about having PTSD until my wife started telling me stories about things I did at night while I was asleep.

  • Ā She told me
  • ...
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Veteran / first responder won’t take advice law enforcement officer legal military Jun 18, 2025

I got out of the service and got my law degree. I didn’t serve long— just enough to pay for school. Because of that, though, and because my family is ...

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Nurse recalls making people die alone medical professional moral injury Jun 11, 2025

I was a nurse back in 2020– during the pandemic.

At first, I was scared and overwhelmed about an unknown virus coming from China. Nobody knew anythin...

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Fireman goes wrong way in burning house Jun 04, 2025

We received a call to a house fire. Shortly after arriving, we heard there was a strong likelihood someone might still be inside.

ā€œHe’s probably in t...

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EMT sees young death & old death differently paramedic / emt May 28, 2025

I’m a paramedic. I’ve been called to numerous homes when an elderly patient suffers a heart attack or seems to be having a stroke. I always do the bes...

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9-1-1 dispatcher can’t help his own family 9-1-1 dispatcher May 21, 2025

I received a 9-1-1 call that caught me off guard— in a way none of the others ever had.

It was a co-worker’s family calling. His brother-in-law was o...

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Police officer questions the impact he made law enforcement officer May 14, 2025

I was at my daughter’s college graduation. It was a 2-year community college— the kind where they do a lot of vocational training.

I found myself spe...

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Emotional Wholeness Checklist ptsd May 07, 2025

Three are three key talking points in this presentation…

1ļøāƒ£ Emotional health is a vital component of total health— yet it’s one we often overlook. I...

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Fireman’s Christmas goes off-track fire fighter moral injury Apr 30, 2025

It was Christmas Day, a few years into being a firefighter.

I had some seniority at the station, so I wasn’t scheduled to work that day. But, I had a...

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Trooper sees issue with compartmentalizing law enforcement officer Apr 23, 2025

I joined the State Highway Patrol while I was in my mid-twenties. Real fast, I picked up special code words and nicknames the guys had for various sit...

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