Tony Mantor

Yeah, I can't disagree with you there.

They're very high stress jobs and they do see a lot, a lot more than the average person sees.

Now, most people, they go to work, punch in, they get out of work, they punch out.

But with your job, it can be a 24 hour a day job sometimes.

You might be off the clock, but then you see something happens, you can't just walk away from it, and you jump in and try and help out.

Then it creates another trauma, yet they go back to work like it never happened.

How do you help them?

Because there are some that are very good at masking their feelings and their emotions and what they're going through.

Most people would never know that they were going through it because they hide it so well.

How do you sift through that or can you sift through that not knowing so they don't go down that deep dark hole that no one wants to see them go into?

Yes, that makes perfect sense.

They're taught to mask it.

They're taught to stay calm.

Let's say they do it so well, so well that most people around them do not know that they are going through some very serious issues.

Every time they go out, every time they see something bad, they're holding it in, and each piece of that puzzle is forming a picture, and that picture is one that's going in a very bad place.

So how do you address this so it does not get out of control?

Now, Tom, I understand that there's kind of a continuing education for first responders.

Is there one for continuing education on how to avoid any circumstances that could put them in a bad place with their mental health?

I'm thinking more of internal programs to where they learn to process it and work with it so that they don't have any issues moving forward.

I think that's great that you have that set up.