This show will never shy away from having the difficult conversations. Thriving mental and physical health is paramount and crucial to survival and sadly, if not addressed, it could lead to a life ending.
First responders are three times more likely to die by suicide than the from the job that they do.
These numbers don’t include the suicide attempts or suicidal ideation of first responders that are suffering and struggling in silence. There are a lot of descriptors that officers apply to themselves such as Fearful, Shame, Unworthy, Useless, Despair and Apathy to Life to name a few.
These are all symptoms of depression, which is the ultimate liar.
It will tell you that you are a failure when you have actually succeeded.
It will make you feel like a burden to others.
It will make you feel that others will be better off without you in life.
It will tell you that you are alone.
Reality:
People do count on you.
Others do love and respect you.
These people will no longer have you there to help them, make them laugh, call you when they are struggling, and no longer to tell you they love you.
You are worth so much to so many.
Today’s episode will pull back the curtain on a first responder that was enveloped by the darkness and lost all hope and wished to leave this world and the people that call him a husband, a father, a sibling, a colleague, and a friend.
This is someone who went to the edge of the cliff and had one foot off and then was rescued by a voice to pull him back into this world and remind him that it was not his time and he had much more to give this world.
This guest could be your husband, wife, child, friend, coworker, partner on a call or your boss. The darkness is real and can come for us all at any time in our life and sadly there are many who do not hear that voice that calls them from that cliff.
If are struggling, there is help!:
Call 988 suicide hotline
COPLINE: 1-800-COPLINE
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#suicideprevention
#mentalhealthmatters
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#mentalhealth
#trauma
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