Fire Service -

Behaviour and Personality, Depression, Fire Service, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness Month, PTSD, Road To Mental Wellness-the book

Love and to loathe

The fire service and I suspect it’s true of all emergency services, it’s both really easy to both love and loath, all at the same time.

Fire Service, Mental Health, PTSD

Unsurmountable odds.

when faced with unsurmountable odds, we in the emergency services do whatever it takes to get the job done. for those of us who now have PTSD, we too must face the daunting task of getting it done.

A firefighter standing alone at a grass fire

Fire Service, Mental Health, PTSD

Incident Commander

The Incident commander is “the” person in charge on the fire ground. When it comes to you’re mental health, you are the one in charge.

Fire Service, Mental Health, PTSD

You can’t ignore PTSD

While I fought tooth and nail to shove everything way down, I would come to learn the hard way that You can’t ignore PTSD.

Coping skills, Fire Service, Inspiration, Mental Health, PTSD

Emergency Service PTSD

Emergency Service PTSD, after all the tragedies we’ve seen, it can be difficult to nail down the cause of this mental health injury.

Tired firefighter, sitting down - Who's taking care of you?

Fire Service, Mental Health, Post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD

I learned very early on that I wanted to spend my life helping others. I can’t describe why or where it came from. All I knew is that it burned deep within. (Later on, I began to wonder “who’s taking care of me?”)