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NAFFVN fully supports the West Coast Post Trauma Retreat out of San Rafael California. Please click on the link and see if this organization is a fit for your psychological support and debriefing process. Firefighterveteran Shannon Pennington ptsd disabled was in attandance for a week of observation in february of 2009. It cannot be said enough that there is help out there and that WCPTR offers the best hope and outcome you could want for yourself and family.
Some helpful NAFFVN phrases:
H.O.T. meaning Hazardous Overload of Thoughts
W.E.T. meaning Wasted Emotional Thoughts
A.I.R. meaning Accept Individual Responsability
Emotional Back Draft meaning Getting caught up in the feelings and texture of a tramatic call or event that is particularily troubling in it's intrusiveness to your thoughts and will not go away.
Open up the Inch and a half between your head and your heart and release some of the back pressure from the traumatic stress woundings that are smouldering in your basement......
F.I.R.S.T. S.T.E.P. H.O.P.E.
A Firefighterveterans Bill of Rites is to follow soon on this web page.
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