Paramedic Trauma And The Moment It Hit

Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

Steve Bisson

Counseling, Honest, Health & Fitness, Education, Social Sciences, Psychology, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Science, Substance Use

5.0 • 21 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail A lot of people assume first responder stress is mostly about what you see on calls. Emma Irwin, a UK paramedic who worked both London and Kent, helps us name the other half of the story: the system you work inside. We compare how ambulance “trusts” operate, what shifts when call volume spikes, how response targets change the feel of a day, and why a 30-minute transport can be a big deal when it reshapes decisions about hospitals versus community care. If you care about EMS l...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Resilience Development in Action with Steve Bisson.
0:06.1	This is the podcast dedicated to first responder mental health, helping police, fire,
0:11.4	EMS, dispatchers, and paramedics create better growth environments for themselves and their teams.
0:17.5	Let's get started.
0:33.6	Okay. their teams. Let's get started. Well, hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 248. If you haven't listened to episode 247, it was with Kimmy Sadler. She was a former supervisory special agent in the U.S. State Department.
0:39.9	And she is on her way walking around Europe in order to support the first responders out there.
0:45.6	So having said that, I have someone we met through online. And I was like, oh, this is great.
0:51.5	I want to meet her. And we kind of connected fairly quickly
0:54.8	and she's finally on here.
0:56.6	When I hear England, I've had a few people from England.
0:59.6	And I think that it's important for us
1:01.9	to have a first responders perspective from England
1:04.7	because sometimes it is the same yet different.
1:07.4	And for the record, I did look at this beforehand
1:10.4	and I'm not, this is just because
1:11.7	someone else triggered me because, oh, it's different in England.
1:14.9	It's easier.
1:15.6	And I'm like, well, the suicide rates of first responders in England are pretty much the same
1:22.6	as the one in the United States.
1:24.6	So it's different, but the same.
1:26.5	That's how I perceive it. But Emma Irwing,
1:30.3	welcome to resilience development and action. Thank you. Thank you for having me.
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