Local nonprofit Operation 22 wants to offer a hand and shoulder of support to military veterans, police officers and emergency crews who may be actively struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Local nonprofit Operation 22 wants to offer a hand and shoulder of support to military veterans, police officers and emergency crews who may be actively struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder .
“PTSD just took control of my life for about 15 months," he said."It was one of the darkest places I've ever been. I prepared twice to commit suicide and take my life, and both times I was stopped by my wife and my mother.” "If we can save just one life, it's worth every minute that we put forward and every penny that we raise," Lacy said,"because we can't bring back a life. I don't want to be part of that statistic. I don't want to be part of the 22."
"95 percent of our calls are bad day calls," she said."They're just officers either on their way into the job or off the job to kind of debrief, decompress with somebody that gets it; kind of review it. A call that they had with somebody that's safe, that's not going to judge them and not going to give them advice."
However, Samuels, said, that process requires discipline and vetting because the stakes are too great to risk.
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