Denial kills you twice, Preparation saves you twice

The worse thing that can happen to a policeman is to find themselves suddenly in harm's way while their loved ones were with them.

Why policemen should Prepare for the unthinkable, as though it was inevitable  with an amazing story of a police chief shot when his wife was with him and what she did.

The sobering fact is that post-traumatic stress disorder is caused by "intense fear, helplessness or horror" in a life-and-death situation.

Denial kills you twice: once because you are physically unprepared at the moment of truth and might die in the incident; twice because you are psychologically unprepared and, even if you physically survive, you are likely to be a psychiatric casualty when your "house of cards" collapses. Denial kills you twice, and it can kill your loved ones twice. In the same way, preparation saves you twice, and it may save your loved ones twice.