[RumiDude]

Here's an article from Vox about SAR and First Responders dealing with PTSD. It is a long rambling article but I think worth a read. Rumi

[car68]

That's a good article. Many SAR volunteers will see more trauma than law enforcement will. And it's not uncommon to recover people they know. It's happened here a few times. The part about the helicopter crash hit close to home having survived an impact with terrain after a loss of tail rotor effectiveness.

[Cyclopath]

[RumiDude]

According to the American Psychiatric Association: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape or who have been threatened with death, sexual violence or serious injury. But as the article indicated, it is often the accumulated stress that is sometimes exacerbated by one significant event or as is often the case, just one more bit of stress that puts someone into overload; in other words, the straw that broke the camel's back. This also applies to us in our everyday lives, the accumulated stress can somehow suddenly overwhelm us. Rumi

[neek]

This is a very good article, thanks for posting. The volunteer SAR folks I sent it to appreciated it as well and mentioned they found the therapy sessions their groups offered to be very helpful.