Gary Brecka

And I might exchange my life for my children, but I can't think of a perfect stranger that I would exchange my life for.

And it leads to this thing that we call PTSD.

But when you say PTSD,

And you've talked about how, you know, you're in a very masculine industry and, and career.

Yes.

And so it's not like,

really the social norm to be talking about your feelings and like, hey guys, I couldn't sleep last night.

I was up all night.

My heart was pounding.

And like, oh brother, you know, suck it up, you know, walk it off kind of attitude.

And if you look at the incidents of, you know, suicide and police officers and firefighters and our first responders, it's significantly higher than it is now.

the general population.

It is.

And so we can draw a clear line between their careers and the experiencing this PTSD.

And I think, like you say, it's different for everyone, anxiousness, anxiety, rapid heart rate, not sleeping.

And then you're staying in that stressful career.

And then when you're not talking about it, you don't feel like you can talk about it.

And you know, the worst of decisions happen.

Yeah.

I don't think that we're ever prepared to see other human beings in that state, you know, and if you have any amount of empathy at all.