Crisis Response

So you have this unique program.

He actually goes into agencies and helps agencies with the complexity of setting up pre-incident procedures.

interventions and follow-up from incidents programs inside their departments.

Mostly it's talking about mental health and just taking care of yourself and taking care of your organization.

Because if you're not taking care of yourself, you can't help other people.

But the interesting thing is with You know, first responders or helping organizations is you see a lot of trauma.

You see a lot of bad stuff and you've got to take care of yourself and trying to understand the complexities of how our brains work with trauma.

And it's not with it's not just one event.

It's not a one and done thing.

It's it's cumulative trauma.

And it's complex and it's over the years.

So those who are, whether they're in, you know, fire or law enforcement dispatch, any kind of rescue, search and rescue, dive rescue, even...

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So you have stuff where you see difficult and dark things and...

And it could cause extra layers of stress.

We call it post-traumatic stress.

Now, there's clusters of what happens with that post-traumatic stress, and we can each experience some of the symptoms of that.

whether it's avoidance or you're having a physiological arousal or whether it changes your mood and your attitude.

And it just kind of is, or whether I just have intrusive thoughts where I'm thinking about things.

So usually some of those clusters of symptoms arise once you have just, you see negative and bad things.

In fact, in the DSM, which is the Diagnostic Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, There's only two examples that I'm aware of that's given in this giant, giant book, and it's under PTSD, and it's specific to first responders.

It says bodies or recovering bodies.

And.

repeated exposure to, for example, child abuse.

So you got on the phone, the dispatchers hearing it and seeing it.