#688 First Responder PTSD - Therapist Donn Bradley
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Donn Bradley is a therapist (LMFT) and a former first responder who shares his journey to discovering how much therapy and emotional processing is needed for EMTs, police, and anyone whose work requires the witnessing of violence and tragedy. Donn also opens up about his childhood and the death of his mother when he was young.
More about Donn
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/donn-bradley-brentwood-ca/746276
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 688 with my guest Don Bradley. Very excited to to talk about |
| 0:07.8 | excited is that the right word about PTSD and first responders. |
| 0:14.0 | It feels like we haven't really touched on that that much. |
| 0:18.0 | We've certainly talked about burnout with people in the helping field but yeah really enjoyed this conversation |
| 0:28.0 | with with Don. Just a reminder if you're new to the podcast that I am not a therapist and this show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling, but it is a place for raw honesty. This is from the Ask Paul |
| 0:46.1 | Anything survey. Oh you know what before I do that I was watching I was going |
| 0:51.0 | down the YouTube rabbit hole and one of the things that I find to be a guilty pleasure is |
| 1:00.0 | people who are committing crimes and resist arrest, |
| 1:07.5 | despite all the facts on the ground |
| 1:10.7 | being that they will not be able to get away. |
| 1:14.0 | And there was a video of a woman. |
| 1:16.0 | She was cornered in her car in a gas station. |
| 1:20.0 | She had a broken front axle and she's trying to get away and there's no |
| 1:26.0 | room to turn and she can't even turn anyway. She's parked but her windows are |
| 1:30.9 | rolled up and the police take a knife to her tires and she just keeps trying to drive away and her tires are trying to drive away and her tires are flat and there's nowhere to go and she's flooring |
| 1:49.8 | it and that just the flat tires are spinning. |
| 1:54.2 | And there's a part of me that feels rage at her, |
| 1:57.6 | like you're so entitled that you think the laws don't apply to you. |
| 2:04.0 | And then the more I thought about it, |
| 2:07.0 | the more I wondered, |
| 2:09.0 | is she just in some type of survival mode triggered by something in the past? |
| 2:20.0 | A fear of the unknown? |
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