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The thing when a mass shooting takes place and the suspect possibly has a mental illness that gets swept under the rug by politicans for gun control because mental illness is treated like a ginger step child you know it's there and that's it.
13 first responders, 13 suicides, 10 weeks
http://globalnews.ca/news/1457826/13-first-responders-13-suicides-10-weeks/____
PTSD is a mental illness, recently emergency responders have been committing suicide at an alarming rate.
I've been trying to bring awareness of mental illness more to the forefront for some time, because it directly affects me, and it may directly affect more people here than care to admit.
One firefighter who recently took his own life here in Edmonton worked side by side with one of my oldest childhood friends. Needless to say, he's a wreck. I also heard a really excellent interview on CBC radio with a guy who runs a support group for first responders who suffer from PTSD. The thing he says needs to come first - and my friend agrees - is the 'macho' culture of first responders needs to accept that PTSD happens to anyone, and it doesn't mean you are weak if you ask for help dealing with it.
Two of the incidents that they might have had to deal with in the last year were those twin girls that were beaten so bad they quit crying when they were hungry and one died from her injuries; and the other was Travis Baumgartner, the rent-a-cop who gunned down 3 of his co-workers for a quarter million in cash, and the cop who tried to beat down the security door to try to save the people dying on the other side of it.
Seeing that would leave scars on anyone's psyche.
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