I know it exists - I do not deny it - but when I think of those who serve us daily in our hospitals and ambulaces who deal with death and disaster on a daily, sometimes hourly basis, I really do not feel much sympathy for someone who bleats in the local newspaper about an experience which gave him PTSD and caused him to be medically discharged from work!
Members of the armed services who have been in the front line - yes - they can suffer from PTSD but really this man's reasoning is ridiculous.
I recall my sensitive daughter told me in her first year of nurse training and she and another pupil nurse were sent down to the morgue to prepare a body. This was not supposed to happen until their 3rd or 4th year but the two young girls, despite never having seen or prepared a dead body before, went and did what was necessary and without complaint. Since then she has dealt with a multitude of events, which nurses, doctors and ambulance workers face regularly, and yet we don't hear them bleating their stories of PTSD.
No, this ex PC wanted a little publicity for his business and the newspaper fell for it.
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