Category: Your Own Story Here

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PTSD progression not recognized by police departments

Written By Our Reader Steve: Hi I’m Steve, here are my bona fides, I was LAPD, class of 3-81-B (march 1981). My serial number is 23106. I completed the Academy at the age of 22. I was assigned Wilshire Division where I completed my probation. After probation, I was “wheeled” to Hollywood, where I again …

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Fairchild Hospital Shooting, Air Force Base, PTSI PTSD

In 1994, I responded to an active killer incident at our hospital on Fairchild Air Force Base. For several years afterward, I struggled with PTSD, not because I took a life, but because so many others lost theirs. 20 years later, I was invited back to Fairchild to speak about the resiliency of survivors at …

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