Missing the Adrenaline Rush A Law Enforcement Perspective ep23

Yes. And I loved it. There were times where if we didn't have some major critical incident occur, if I went a week without a critical incident, it was bothersome to me. It's like I was missing that adrenaline rush. We were starting to worry there was going to be something even bigger than what we've ever dealt with and who's going to get hurt or whatever. A lot of the same things that happen that I've grown to understand in our military culture, too, where people go out on regular patrols and have regular little skirmishes, and we're. They don't have anything, and they start to worry about, okay, what's coming, and then you start building up to that.

Yeah. And so this hypervigilance keeps us from ever having that internal sense of actual peace and actual calm, because you are constantly in a state of anticipation. Right.

And I've never really lost that. So I've encountered a lot of veterans that I've worked with that their hypervigilance is very unhealthy. And I have found ways to channel mine into new areas and not necessarily find distractions, but to control that energy and flow it into the purpose, if you will.