WWL Radio Nagins said 2 suicides of people assisting in

[I_Make_Mistakes]

rescues. This was not a call in it was the hosts that said this.

[freeplessinseattle]

1. I also heard two NO police officers committed suicide, one Fri

on yesterday, understandable that they were at the breaking point, and probably lost fruends and family too. alot of the rescuers and survivors will be traumatized for the rest of their lives.

[I_Make_Mistakes]

3. Probably the same 2. Just think how hard it must've been for them

[lebkuchen]

5. That's why Nagin wants to give his force a rest in Las Vegas

Call the MGM/Mirage and insist they comp rooms to NO peace officers!

[Horse with no Name]

2. This isn't uncommon in your first responders in tragedies

unfortunately.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-09-22-legacy-usat_x.htm
Celentani's suicide illustrates a disturbing trend that has emerged after tragedies such as last year's Pennsylvania coal mine disaster, the Oklahoma City bombing and Sept. 11. Some of those intimately involved in storied rescue efforts — men and women lauded as heroes — have committed suicide. Experts, citing causes from post-traumatic stress to the destructive power of sudden fame, worry more such deaths will follow.
Bob Long, a surveyor credited with finding the nine trapped coal miners, killed himself in June. Terry Yeakey, an Oklahoma City police sergeant who rescued four bombing victims in 1995, committed suicide the following year. Robert O'Donnell, a paramedic who played a crucial role in saving baby Jessica McClure from a Texas well shaft in 1987, took his life nearly eight years later.
After Sept. 11, at least three New York men involved in rescue and recovery efforts have committed suicide, union officials say. James Kay Jr., an emergency medical technician, shot himself early last year. Six months later, Daniel Stewart, another EMT, hanged himself. And there was Celentani.

[MelissaB]

4. .

:cry: and kick

[I_Make_Mistakes]

6. They need some serious grief counseling or I feel there will be

more. Imagine the sheer horror of what they have been experiencing for almost a week.

[MelissaB]

7. I agree. Somebody had better help them, too.

[Wizard777]

8. PTSD. Next there will be alterations to the Hippocampus. Followed by

Short term memory loss. This will allow the gathered information to sneak into the long term memory. This is when it will perceivably pop up out of no where and scare them half to death. Their brain is in the process of blind siding them with nightmare vision. Even while they are wide awake. That is the biggest danger.

I'm going to be very blunt about this. They need to smoke some weed and chill. Their brains are being over whelmed with senory input. Some people are begining to hit the self destruct button. Their every sence is under assault. They need some internal relief. They need to begin supplimenting their brains own natural cannibinoids with those found in marijuana. They are for all intents and purposes identical. Marinol will not due. They need to take it straight to the head to relieve the Brain. The don't need a detour through the stoma. They need it now.

[AlienGirl]

10. Dextromethorphan has shown promise for treating PTSD as well

It's an NMDA receptor antagonist and dopamine reuptake inhibitor found in many cough medicines.

Tucker

[applegrove]

12. Also wellbutrin. SSRIs. Really important that they get the right meds.

And to all those first responders out there.. you were not protected. You cannot be expected to get control of a city when there is no back up. Bush should have sent the army in by day two. At least 10,000 could have been there. Doesn't matter what the local politicians were talking about. The local politicians asked for appropriate help on Sat or Sunday last week.

10,000 troops should have been there Wednesday morning. 15,000 by Thursday. Instead..on Thursday..they had 300.

No President should drop the ball and ignore all the Pentagon & the State Department know about lawlessness.

There is no excuse for what Bush didn't do.

Nobody can expect you to police if there is no back up. That is not your job.

[MelissaB]

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[MelissaB]

11. Nominated! Anybody else think this belongs on the "greatest"?