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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
You have nailed it, and identified one factor of many for people who work in “civil servant” positions. Teachers, Social Workers, EMT’s/Firefighters and Police Officers are all suffering from burn out, trauma/PTSD, and self esteem and confidence issues. Many are asking what’s the point as society seems to be on a course of self destruction anyway. An idea may be to increase standards for hiring, implement Psych Evals, extensive training in deescalation and trauma informed practices as well as a lengthy mentoring period for civil servants in these high stress jobs. Systemic change is needed to only hire the most qualified under a new metric. This would be in addition to a significant pay increase and benefit package, particularly for Educators, Social Workers and EMT’s Let’s face it, these jobs may be so toxic in some areas that there may need to be a service end date with a scaled retirement plan to protect people from harming themselves or others.
gpt
Right?? Seeing just one traumatic thing can cause ptsd. Like a deadly traffic accident with body parts across the road.  Even doctors suffer from what you’re talking about. Burnt out doctors cause death. All the time.

And then we get cop-a-ganda shows acting like they give a crap about officers mental health. Like instead of hiring social workers as officers. Or requiring a. Degree in that field… Ooph. Big Ooph