If you’re a first responder, you are daily dealing with others’ traumas, and this will eventually impact your own mental health. It’s important to take care of yourself. In this article from Counseling Today, trauma counselors—including me—describe some ways counseling can be helpful to first responders:
https://ct.counseling.org/2020/07/putting-first-responders-mental-health-on-the-front-lines/
Be well—
Joel