Hey Jim,
Welcome to the family.  This is a good place to come and feel safe with no
judgements being made on your PTSD because we all have it.
 
Take a look around and see some of the older posts.
 
What part of the country are you in?  We have people from all over the world. 
I live in Oklahoma now but lived most of my life in NY.
 
Reggie
 
--- On Sun, 3/8/09, Jim Eggeman <ok4a56@...> wrote:

From: Jim Eggeman <ok4a56@...>
Subject: [EMS Fire Police PTSD] New Here
To: emsfirepoliceptsd@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, March 8, 2009, 5:01 PM

Hello ALL:

My name is Jim, and I have been in Public Safety for just over 20 years. I
started out young, as I am now only 38. I have done FD, EMS as a Volunteer/Part
Time, and have been a full time dispatcher for the last 20 years. It was not
until I became my departments Training Coordinator, and doing research on a
class on stress, that I seen that I had all the classic symptoms for PTSD. I
have yet to be officially told I have PTSD, but my family Dr, who gave me some
self tests thinks I have PTSD. Over the next few weeks I will be working with my
insurance company to find the right person for me to start seeing.


I look forward to reading up on prior post in this group.


Thanks for letting me join.




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