PTSD Survey
May 3rd, 2009 | Published in Health & Safety | 4 Comments
ParamedicUK recently received an email from Tim at Beyond the Frontline. (http://beyondthefrontline.com)
“Hi,
I am a member of the three 9 services and I have spent the last year suffering from PTSD. It has been directly attributed to the work I carried out for the emergency services.
As I get better I can see that it is important for me to start action that will protect other members of the public services.
I have built a website that is live but currently un advertised but the main purpose of my plight is to form a pressure group forcing better care for the front line workers in the emergency services.
I am currently in the final stages of gaining charity status and as soon as I can fund raise things will really take off!
The reason I am contacting you is this, I am looking for members of the emergency services to take part in a short email survey.
The survey will be anonymous and should only take about 10 minutes to complete.
It would be a massive help if you could mention this on your website and ask anyone willing to take part to email Info@beyondthefrontline.com
Thank you so much for your time
Kind regards
Tim”
June 5th, 2009at 11:04(#)
I recently had to leave my paramedic job due to stress related problems. I will help you if I can.
November 19th, 2009at 23:05(#)
I served in a major metropolitan Fire department as a paramedic/firefighter and suffered with ptsd the last 15 years of my career. i’ve been through 1 divorce and had problems with alcohol. I definitely would like to take the survey and help out in any way I can..
February 4th, 2010at 18:20(#)
i am a 20+yr paramedic in a city and county local gov.run ems service. i was dx in aug.2008-dec.2008 with ptsd. it was through a EAP program (empolyee assist. program) and it was manditory or be fired. my counsoler dx me with it,all paper work was filed by her and sent back to the eap rep. i was fired in jan.13th 2010 by phone. after two and ahalf wks, i finally got a copy of my personal file.of course there is no paper work showing i went, who sent me,for how long,who i consoled with,my dx, or final out come.they just me back on truck, after a bad call on jan.8th 2010, i was fired on the 13th. never given or aloud to employ representation present. and yes that was my 2nd time of being dx with ptsd.
May 4th, 2011at 22:03(#)
I was diagnosed 3 yrs ago and iv had continous problems that just seem to be getting wors. We are firefighters / paramedics and this is a smaller volume dept. i was under the impretion that i was going to like a smaller dept. comming from a dept that had 150 frontline guys. But!… We recently had a firefighter commite suicide, there was an accumilation of problems for himthat nobody knew about. We have nothing set in place for anybody that is haveing problems. So yes i want to take your test and pleas contact me if you or anybody can help us set something up for this no longer happens.
Thank you
Mike