Andy Stumpf

Now, you said, I don't think I can talk to a professional about this because I'm not sure it's a mental health issue.

My suggestion to you is this.

Find somebody, talk to them about this, and let them be the deciding factor on that.

Let somebody who is a professional, and I'm not saying this is a mental health issue, but this is an issue that is affecting your mentality.

It is affecting the way that you think and feel and potentially even believe.

Let somebody who's an expert in those things be the deciding factor as to whether or not you should discuss this.

Also,

Do you have somebody that you work with?

I know you've only been on the job for four years, but do you have a mentor or somebody in the department that you could talk to about this?

I am telling you right now, you are not the only person that is dealing with this.

You're not the only person that is feeling this way.

And I bet you if you talk to somebody who's been on the job for eight years or 12 years or 16, right, multiple, so how long you have been, those people may help you

Reorient your optic a little bit to maybe they have some strategies that help them deal with this as well, because the last thing that I want for you is to is to lose your humanity.

And it's.

An incremental.

Slippery slope.

You know, the military is gallows humor, dark humor for sure.

There's almost no time that is too soon to make a joke, even about the most horrendous things.

And I know it's like that in law enforcement.

Well, their occupations are defined by their similarities and not by their differences.