Prince William sparked a conversation about mental health among emergency responders, ahead of a Symposium on the subject.
reported that in 2015,"87% of emergency services staff and volunteers have experienced stress and poor mental health at work." Unsurprisingly, the pandemic has only made things worse.paid a visit to two emergency responders, Will—a paramedic—and Chloe—an emergency care assistant, to engage them in a candid conversation about how their work has impacted their mental health.
Explaining how the pandemic changed the way he worked, Will said,"It was quite a shock to the system, compared to how we had worked. It was scary."She continued,"I found that I'm really good at remaining calm on the job, but afterwards, those emotions that I haven't necessarily processed, they stay with me and they build up. So my coping mechanism is to just let them all out, just to allow myself to be upset and then move on from there.
Will said,"I think I went through a phase of not knowing how to deal with it myself. As time goes by and the years sort of progress in service, awareness of what you've been exposed to is quite important. I put this barrier up where I found it easier to ignore it all and not talk about it, and not talk to friends, not talk to family, because it was easier if I just sort of had a work me and home me, but then I later found that that didn't help.
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