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Old Apr 07, 2012, 07:57 PM
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There wasn't any point lying on the evaluation or faking my answers. The reason I was ordered to take the evaluation was my symptoms were becoming all too obvious and interfering with my work. My sleep disturbances were making it difficult for me to wake up for night runs and fatigue made it hard to function during the day. My anxiety started causing me problems going into fires. I wasn't scared of being burned or injured, I've been in way too many fires for that, but I was constantly thinking "I hope I don't screw this up and get somebody hurt or killed". The one that really finished me was freezing up and having a panic attack during a confined space exercise with officers watching me. Don't want to go into gory details here, but my PTSD was haunting me with images of people I'd seen missing one side of their head or dead for weeks. It was almost a relief to be ordered off active duty. I retired on a disability pension, and I've been struggling ever since.