Episode 987: From Patrol to Practice - Knowing When to Get Help w/ Donn Bradley

Street Cop Podcast

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4.9 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Former first responder and current practicing therapist Donn Bradley shares his insights on coping mechanisms, reaching your breaking point, and finding the courage to seek help.

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Teaser

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Intro

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Don’s background

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Reaching your breaking point & knowing when to get help

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Recognizing alcohol abuse

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Abusing sex to cope with pain

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“Mommy” and “Daddy” issues

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Midroll

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Exercise as a coping mechanism

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Over-diagnosing narcissism

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Selfishness & judgment

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Developing your emotional intelligence

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When you should be judgmental

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Better versus healed

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Outro

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0:00.0	Hey guys, make sure you check out streetcop.com for all of our upcoming courses in person,
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0:07.1	You have training right at your fingertips, and we've made it so affordable, so reasonable,
0:10.7	that everybody can get an opportunity to train because we know you guys need to help.
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0:17.9	There's three types of people in the world.
0:19.6	The ones that give and give and give and they're so
0:21.9	altruistic. There's the people that just want to go along to get along. They don't want to
0:25.3	bother anybody. They don't want anybody bothering them. And then there's the people like I'm
0:28.4	talking about that have low self-esteem. They don't have the ability to raise themselves up in a
0:33.0	situation. So they scoop the ground out from everybody else. They go, when I see success in you,
0:38.2	that makes me feel bad,
0:39.6	so I'm gonna take you down so that I feel better.
0:42.8	Right? There's a lot of folks out there doing that.
0:44.6	Well, if you think about every person's existence
0:47.7	like a pair of very specific prescription glasses,
0:50.8	you can say, I see things perfectly,
0:52.5	hand them to somebody else,
0:53.4	and they're gonna look at you and go, God, I don't have the same prescription, right? But what you have to realize is that they're
0:59.3	wearing a different pair of glasses. And you're basically trying to go, I don't understand with my
1:03.0	glasses what they're seeing through theirs. Being able to hear those stories, I know that there's,
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