"I completely isolated myself from my squad," explained Lopez, who also described feelings of anger during that period.
"I felt like nobody cared. I was out there floundering, and I really felt that nobody really cared what I was going through," he said.
"What Lopez didn’t realize at the time, he was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.
"It doesn’t come on a week after the incident. It takes months and months, maybe six months, a year, two years for your brain to start getting the onset of post traumatic stress disorder," said Lopez.
It took him two years before someone from his department told him about the West Coast Post-Trauma Retreat in California, a special program specially designed for first responders who have experienced trauma. The program’s staff and therapists all come from a law enforcement background...."
http://www.azfamily.com/news/DPS-officer-raising-awareness-about-PTSD-232425231.html
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