The Dangerous Stigmas Around Mental Health
The issue of mental health is prominent everywhere in the public safety profession and it is an issue that commands a new perspective.
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Firefighters are aware of the statistics linking firefighter deaths to preventable diseases and illnesses caused by unhealthy lifestyles. One of the leading causes of firefighter deaths is heart attacks. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Bringing answers to the modern firefighter’s burning health questions, we aim to help firefighters identify and put into practice better health choices to increase your chances at a healthier wellbeing with disease and illness free careers and retirements.
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Thoughts on Therapy for Firefighters
When firefighters think of psychotherapy, they might picture someone lying on a leather chaise lounge while a cross-legged therapist peers over his glasses, frowns and asks, “How does that really make you feel?” But have you heard of talk therapy?
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Emotional Stunting – Can’t We All Just Grow Up?
We’re all adults here, aren’t we? Or are we? Do you sometimes think your partner behaves like a spoiled child? Might they describe you the same way? Do arguments that start small quickly escalate to shouting matches, crying and stony silences?
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SEALs, Lizards, Fish and Firefighters – Fighting the Brain Battle
The more primitive parts of the human brain – the brain stem, cerebellum, and basal ganglia – are shared by lizards and humans. Our lizard cousins, like us, inherited these brain elements from fish to help handle basic body functions.
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Mitigating the Impact of Traumatic Event Exposures
Firefighting is one of the best jobs around. It is also one of the most dangerous. As firefighters we train and prepare for the many physical risks we face.
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Mental Health and Suicide in the Fire Service
Firefighters risk their own lives and health at work while trying to serve the public. Over the course of a career, firefighters will be exposed to many traumatic incidents, and those exposures can add up over time and cause increased stress.
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Neurochemistry For The Tactical Athlete
“Mindset and physical performance are linked. They feed each other. Physical training toughens the mind. Being mentally tough allows you to extend the limits of your physicality. It doesn’t matter how mentally tough you are if you lose all situational awareness because your heart rate is twice as high as it should be moving up a staircase with 80 pounds of bunker gear on.”
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Dealing With The Stigma Of A Mental Health Injury
Is there a stigma attached to developing post-traumatic stress disorder as a first responder? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is yes.
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Learning How To Say No
Is there a reason why you are filling every hour of every day with something? Just because you technically have time for something doesn’t mean you should take it on, and just because you’ve been asked, doesn’t mean you have to say yes.
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The Danger Of “Just Deal With It.”
Our ability to adequately equip our first responders with the awareness, knowledge and tools to address the fundamental question of ‘how do you work safely (emotionally) as a first responder is crucial.
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