If you’ve found your way here, there’s a good chance you already understand something about this job: it takes a toll. In EMS, fire, law enforcement, dispatch, and corrections, we spend our careers responding to other people’s worst days. Over time, the things we see, hear, and experience start to stack up in ways most people outside this profession will never fully understand. For a long time, the culture in public safety has been to push through it. Ignore it. Laugh it off.