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The work of a first responder is important and rewarding. EMTs and nurses help people who are sick or injured. Firefighters save people from burning homes and buildings. Police officers protect their communities from violence.

I will never forget the first time my trauma therapist told me I had CPTSD. I had been in denial for a very long time. I knew I had trauma in my life. I denied it was PTSD. I somehow imagined PTSD was only for soldiers who had been hunkered down in gunfire away from their families. I felt like PTSD was something you could only have if you sacrificed your life for something greater than yourself such as the military and first responders do. I was just a “wife.” How could I hav