National First Responders Day is an opportunity to honor the men and women who help us on our worst days, but a non-profit Florida behavioral health system is marking the day by shedding light on new resources designed to help these heroes when they face their own issues.
In the last five years, more than 1,200 first responders in the U.S. have tragically taken their own lives, according to Blue H.E.L.P. Twenty percent of these first responders were from Florida.
LSF Health Systems is leading the charge in Northeast and Northern Central Florida for first responder mental health. Its First Responder Peer Support Program provides confidential, free mental health services to current and former first responders and their families. They need only call 211 and identify themselves as a first responder and they will be paired with a trained peer counselor within 24 hours.
First Responder Peer Support is available to current and former first responders in 20 Florida counties who either don’t have access to an internal mental health program or prefer not to directly engage with someone within their own department. This program also extends its support to family members of first responders.
First responders – or their family members – can visit StayFitforDuty.org for more information or call 211 and identify themselves as a first responder to be confidentially connected with a peer specialist.
Somehow I get the feeling that aim of LSF Health Systems is all about putting as many people as possible on psychotropic medications. It is similar maybe with what has happened with the many young veterans who claim PTSD status. A lot of those meds end up being flushed down the toilet. But the vet gets monetary benefits and so does Big Pharma. Big Pharma benefits when someone decides they are depressed, anxious, or whatever. The “cure” can be worse than the condition.
Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean they are not really out to get you.
The article has nothing to do with big pharma, it’s about finally getting help for first responders for the things they have to see and deal with on a daily basis. They respond to visitors, residents, including friends and family in their worst moments on this small island and have to be professional while trying not to scream at the horrors that no one should have to see.
What is similar to veterans; PTSD, because of the trauma of automobile crashes, industrial accidents, shootings, etc. believe me, it all looks the same as combat. Other than that, nothing unless veterans do 25 years of combat. First responders don’t get monetary benefits other than their pensions which do not include cost of living increases.
In the past, they suffered on their own or paid their own way for mental services, now they have somewhere else to go and you want to tie it to something you only have an opinion of. I applaud all of the urban combat medics who have to suffer for 25 years and then live with it for the remainder of their lives and hope that they can overcome this pain with this support program.
Mr.? Bunch – LSF Health Systems is all about helping people with “Mental Health Disorders.” You can bet psychotropic drugs, that contain Halogens in their molecular structure are part of the picture. Some of these drugs have some very wild side effects – like gynecomastia, Catch a case of that and you really will be depressed.
The article talks about how in the past the mentally affected had to “pay their own way.” But who funds LSF Health Systems????? Is it the taxpayer, Big Pharma – or both?
Do people with mental health disorders really belong in government service? No. Maybe that is why LSF systems maintains confidentiality.
Revelation 18:23 – “And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”
The word “sorceries” can also be translated as “medications” or “pharmakeia.” And without a doubt Pfizer has become one of the greatest merchants of our world today.