David Dachinger addresses the complexities of fire service retirement, identifying common suicide risk factors and sharing resources to help navigate this monumental transition.

Be honest about whether you are experiencing symptoms of anxiety, depression, PTSD, etc ... and help build coping skills that are more easily learned and applied to your everyday life.

A trained mental health professional such as a psychiatrist, psychologist, or neuropsychologist can diagnose someone with PTSD ... resilience and identify coping skills that you can make use ...

A PTSD diagnosis also includes some different non-fear-based symptoms that aren't part of the acute stress disorder diagnosis ...

Breaking the cycle of abuse and trauma involves developing self-awareness of ways that we repeat unhealthy behaviors and ...

Watching the recent fires in California was frightening, as were the fires in Hawaii last year, but the firefighters there were heroic. None of us want to believe something like that could ever happen ...