“The Climb: My lifelong quest for personal and professional resiliency.”

 I know now that I have suffered from some of depression since I was a young teenager – as did my beautiful mother. But a career as a police officer and being exposed to hundreds of traumatic incidents – from my uniformed patrol duties; tactical operations and major crime investigations furthered my mental health issues. Brain surgery in 2000 certainly didn’t help, but I never told a soul about any of it. Nothing. Nor did I seek professional help, at least not until my retirement. I also now appreciate that I have also suffered with a Post-Traumatic Stress Injury since 1984 and am getting the help I so foolishly hid from for over 30 years. 

How did I survive? I do not profess to have all the answers and credit still being alive to sheer luck and the love of family and dear friends, as opposed to the help I should have sought. But I hope speaking of my journey will inspire others to firstly to ‘never give up’, and secondly to seek the professional help they deserve. 

COMING SOON