POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER..... POLICE... PART 2 Last night I was again fortunate enough to catch The Sunday programme featuring the second part to this traumatic situation faced by our front line heroes. I listened to a wife whose husband, a police officer who devoted his entire life to his career, for whom the burden of PTSD was just just too much to bare. But before he tragically took his own life he left a recorded message with emergency services informing them of his decision to end his life, and exactly why he had made the decision, so as to help other police officers with PTSD and their families to not suffer as he did. As his wife mentioned, he did not want anyone at work to know that he wasnt coping, and that many officers feel ashamed to admit they need help. This is an epidemic. As I have mentioned in previous posts, statistics show that more police officers lose their lives by their own hand as a result of depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder than are killed in the line of duty. The wife of this particular officer expressed great disappointment and sadness that she could not tell her children that their father, after all he had given to the force, would not be included in remembrance days, nor represented at the National Police Memorial in Canberra. Insurance companies are balking at paying out for the claims these officers make for psychological injury, and their investigations go on for years which simply aggravates the PTSD and depression. Officers are being followed around with video cameras to see if they are in fact depressed so as to have reasonable excuse to refuse the request the pay out. Yes. This IS AN EPIDEMIC......... And something has to be done to protect the people who step up to that plate and vow to protect us.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 10:08:26 +0000
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