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After losing a colleague to suicide last year, Sasha Johnston advocates for paramedic mental health. In this comment, she shares her personal experience of how being a paramedic has impacted her mental health, and how she has dealt with it. She also importantly shares her perspective about why, ‘it's OK not to be OK.’

Original publication

DOI

10.12968/jpar.2018.10.7.309

Type

Journal article

Journal

Journal of Paramedic Practice

Publisher

Mark Allen Group

Publication Date

02/07/2018

Volume

10

Pages

309 - 309