Psychological injury

But we must be mature enough to hold another truth at the same time.

A process designed to manage psychological injury can itself become profoundly stressful if it is not handled in a trauma-informed way.

And if we genuinely care about the mental health of police and first responders, we need to be able to talk about that.

What happens when injured police survive the job, then have to survive the claims process? I want to express a general feeling about what the process can feel like what officers report experiencing and why a trauma-informed system matters.

So whatever you're feeling has to wait.

That can work for a very long time until it doesn't.

Sometimes psychological injury is not one dramatic event.

It's cumulative.