E.134 Supporting the Unseen Scars: Mental Health and Therapy for First Responders
Finding Your Way Through Therapy
Steve Bisson
5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
When the weight of the badge becomes a burden too heavy to bear alone, it's the invisible wounds that need tending. Dr. Hayden Duggan steps into our podcast realm, offering a lifeline of understanding to first responders grappling with the echoes of trauma. We unravel the complex tapestry of mental health challenges these heroes face, debunking the stigma and fears that often shroud their path to therapy.
Embarking on a journey through the psychological landscape of public safety personnel, our conversation with Dr. Duggan reveals the critical necessity for specialized mental health support. We tackle the barriers that stand in the way — from insurance battles to finding authentic, rigorously trained clinicians. It's a candid exploration of the hurdles and heartaches, but also a testament to the resilience and unspoken camaraderie that bind these protectors of our peace.
As our dialogue traverses the spectrum of first responder experiences, from the adrenaline rush of danger to the profound grief of loss, we underscore the lifesaving role of mental health counseling. We spotlight the power of peer support networks and therapeutic alliances, and the transformative potential of specialist treatments. This episode is a salute to the courage of those who run towards chaos, and a reminder that seeking help is the bravest step towards healing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy. The goal of this |
| 0:07.4 | podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy, and the wide |
| 0:12.0 | array of conversations you can have in and about therapy. |
| 0:16.8 | Through personal experiences, guests will talk about therapy, their experiences with it, and |
| 0:22.2 | how psychology and therapy are present in many places in their lives. |
| 0:27.0 | With lots of authenticity and a touch of humor, |
| 0:30.0 | here is your host, Steve Bissant. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you. And welcome to episode 134 of finding your way through therapy. |
| 0:39.0 | I am Steve Bissom. |
| 0:41.0 | If you have a list of episode 133 to episode 133 probably very important for you to |
| 0:44.3 | listen to it because this is the first part of two of an interview with Dr. |
| 0:47.8 | Hayden Duggan. Dr. Hayden Duggan is the founder of Onsiteight, which is a Academy, which is for a |
| 0:55.6 | residential trauma treatment and training program for public safety |
| 0:58.7 | personnel, police, fire, EMTs, paramedics, sher's, DOC, he works with everyone. |
| 1:05.0 | And he, I hope you enjoyed the first part of the interview. |
| 1:08.6 | We really talked about humbleness. |
| 1:10.1 | We talked about his, he graduated from Harvard and then we talked about a lot of different things and then you know part two I think we're going to talk about a lot of different things including you know the seven deadly sins for first responders so I hope |
| 1:26.0 | that's a good teaser for you and here is the rest of the interview I'm just gonna interrupt you |
| 1:31.3 | because you know I thought that in 2023 and I know we're in |
| 1:35.1 | 2024 when this is released a few weeks ago I got a phone call from a police officer |
| 1:47.7 | looking for therapy and and he's the I say hello he's like I'm John Doe I hear you work with first responders I don't want you to take away my gun. And I'm like, |
| 1:54.0 | Right. |
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