This is how 911 dispatchers care for their own mental health. It can help you cope, too.

This is how 911 dispatchers care for their own mental health. It can help you cope, too. [Opinion]

has been a fire dispatcher with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department for more than three years. She lives in San Diego.

As I continue to explain the inner workings of the dispatch psyche, keep an open mind and remember there isn’t a standard procedure to mental health. There are also calls of fires, or someone lost on a mountain, or other miscellaneous things; again, no emotional attachment and, for the most part, these calls are forgotten soon after the call is completed.

Those are the calls most of us spend the remainder of our lives trying to bury. It’s at this point that we can get tangled in the web and that we must find a way to the surface or be consumed by our grief.

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