Tag: mental health

A successor to “Mental Health Fight of the Heroes in Blue,” this guide provides law enforcement officers across the spectrum with a guide to combating the stressors inevitably tied to ...

Law enforcement agencies across the country are participating in discussions to “reimagine” the business of policing. As agencies are expected to “soften their approach” with budgets getting slashed, sending social ...

These times are uncertain, challenging, scary, upsetting, dangerous, chaotic, and more. As much as I want to tell you that I promise massive opportunities will arise from the struggles, I ...

This is how I want you to think of this chapter: Consider it your miniature handbook for the practical, day-to-day changes you can make in real life to keep your ...

While I am not a licensed psychiatrist, doctor, or clinical expert, I have spent twelve short years in law enforcement. During that time, I just about covered the spectrum when ...

After so long on the job, police officers tend to lose themselves to it. It is never something they intend to do and it sure doesn’t feel like something they ...

The understatement of the decade is that these are unprecedented times for all of us. We should all be looking for as much information as possible to help us manage ...

In our previous article, "Mental Health Matters," we talked about how important it is to help a first responder who reaches out. We didn’t really cover what you can do ...

Countless officers have shared stories of wanting or needing to seek help for life stressors, relationship and financial problems, the things they have seen on the job, and often for ...

As I write this article the number of completed suicides for law enforcement in 2019 is approaching 120 officers. Along with this number I also see stories and articles with ...