‘It Takes A Toll’: New York’s First Responders Plagued By Anxiety, Depression, PTSD

Written on 03/11/2025
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For first responders, each day has the chance to bring tremendous stress, trauma and, in many cases, overwhelming grief.

Police officers responding to a domestic dispute but arriving too late to prevent an eventual murder-suicide. Firefighters valiantly battling blazes, but unable to save someone trapped inside. Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) transporting a critically injured patient to the hospital but seeing them die in their arms before they arrive.

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