Episode 939: The Silent Struggle & How To Begin Healing - You Are Not Alone

Street Cop Podcast

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4.9 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Street Cop Podcast, host Dennis Benigno sits down with John Nuttall to explore the profound and personal challenges of PTSD. John, a seasoned leader and father, opens up about his own experiences with trauma, shedding light on treatments, triggers, and the crucial role of Critical Injury Response Teams. Through candid reflections, John shares his evolution as a leader and a parent, offering valuable insights into why we sometimes hurt those we love and how we can begin to heal. Tune in for an inspiring discussion on resilience, self-awareness, and the path to recovery.

Timestamps:

00:00:00:00 - 00:01:02:14 Teaser 00:01:02:14 - 00:06:13:16 Intro 00:06:13:16 - 00:09:59:17 John’s experience with PTSD 00:09:59:17 - 00:19:20:14 Treatments, Triggers, & Critical Injury Response Teams 00:19:20:14 - 00:22:59:20 John’s reflection as a leader 00:22:59:20 - 00:39:23:00 John’s reflection as a father 00:39:23:00 - 00:43:28:12 Emulation & Why do we hurt those we love? 00:43:28:12 - 01:02:06:09 Dealing with trauma 01:02:06:09 - 01:03:05:23 Outro

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0:00.0	Myself I retired a year ago after 33 years on a Korea fight apartment, just south of Boston and Massachusetts.
0:06.0	But a lot of the things that we do fire EMS police, we all go to the same type of incidents.
0:12.0	You know, our jobs bring us into very horrific things.
0:14.6	That's what we signed up for, that you're gonna get that.
0:17.0	That's part of it.
0:17.8	We are doing stuff that's probably most people
0:20.6	couldn't stomach for five minutes of it,
0:22.4	let alone 30 or 40 years of a career
0:25.0	doing this. You're not less of a person if you reach out saying you know what I'm
0:29.0	having trouble with this it's for whatever reason I just can't get it out of my mind
0:32.0	every time I smell this or I'm smelling or tasting something because it's reminding me of a scene or you're going like I said to a restaurant and the noises you're getting anxious all of a sudden you're starting to have anxiety attacks. Well, that's trigger. Something's triggering it and it could be from a quarrel that you did years ago that you forgot and now it's coming back up and it's okay to be a street.
0:53.0	You're trying to be a
0:55.0	hot.
0:57.0	You trying to be a street cop.
1:01.0	You trying to be a street cop. Hey guys, welcome this episode of the street cop
1:04.0	training podcast, I was founder and CEO of street cop training.
1:06.8	My name is Dennis Benino and today I have with us
1:09.0	somebody who's from the other side of things,
1:11.0	a firefighter. Relax, relaxed. He was referred to over here by his
1:17.2	son, which you were pleasantly surprised about. He is going to talk about the
1:21.5	things that he's experiencing through the same kind of
1:24.4	traumas we experience as law enforcement officers.
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