Damage Done : A Mountie’s Memoir by Deanna Lennox
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Overview: An unflinching portrayal of life inside the RCMP and how one idealistic young officer battled her way through job-induced trauma, anger and disillusionment to healing through horses.
One of the best kept secrets of police services is that many of the men and women who have dedicated their lives to serving and protecting the public are falling apart at the seams. These first responders suffer from catastrophic rates of divorce, alcoholism and depression. According to the RCMP’s own figures, sixty to seventy percent of officers on medical leave are suffering from stress-related injuries such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Often these first responders are unable or unwilling to tell their stories.
Former RCMP officer Deanna Lennox courageously ends the silence and chronicles the events that eventually pushed her mind, body and spirit to the breaking point. This is a story not only of high-speed car chases, drug busts and the author’s time posing undercover as a prostitute, but more importantly, of the relationship between the angry and bitter cop she became and the horse who helped her heal the psychological wounds she incurred in the line of duty.
Damage Done chronicles Lennox’s momentous change and the steps she took to reach out to other first responders by creating the annual War Horse Symposium, a forum to discuss occupational stress injuries, and the non-profit charitable organization the War Horse Awareness Foundation. With the symposium and with this book, Lennox aims to inspire rather than to blame and to add her voice to an emerging conversation about how to protect those who put themselves on the front line for us.
Genre: Non-fiction, biography, memoirs
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