Annex Business Media: Podcasts

Mental wellness is closely related to preventative care. For the fire service, this means reaching out for help before one’s sense of self seriously deteriorates. Nick Halmasy, a former firefighter who is now a registered psychotherapist and founder of After the Call, joins host Tom DeSorcy, the fire chief in Hope, B.C., for a conversation about his experience with stressful calls alongside determining what is a normal stress response and what is not. He emphasizes there are a multitude of roles stress plays in a person’s life. A serious state of distress may not always indicate PTSD, but needs appropriate help nonetheless.