{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Just Breathe","title":"The Lives We Don’t Talk About: Understanding and Preventing First Responder Suicide Part 2","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1418,"description":"This episode discusses suicide, trauma, depression, and cumulative stress. If you've lost a colleague, friend, or loved one, or if these topics are personally difficult, please listen at your own pace. If you recognize yourself in this conversation, asking for help is a sign of courage, not weakness — and you are not alone.\nWelcome back to Just Breathe for part two of our three-part series, The Lives We Don't Talk About. Part one honored the lives lost to first responder suicide and challenged the culture around it; this episode goes inside the research, exploring the psychological autopsy — the method used to understand why an officer died by suicide, and how that understanding drives prevention.\nDr. Tracie L. Keesee is joined by Dr. Jeff Thompson, a retired NYPD detective who served more than two decades, including as the department's first-ever mental health and wellness coordinator and as a hostage negotiator. He's now an Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where his work on police psychological autopsies has become a leading resource for suicide prevention in public safety.\nWHAT WE COVER\n- What a psychological autopsy actually is: a scientific, interview-based method for understanding why an officer died by suicide — grounded in honoring the person and generating prevention data, never in assigning blame.\n- The five critical questions behind every psychological autopsy: why that person, why by that method, why that day, why didn't protective factors intervene, and what could have helped.\n- Why \"why that day\" is often the most revealing question — a recurring stressor, like an on-and-off relationship, can suddenly become the tipping point after years of surviving it.\n- Why over 90% of police suicides involve a firearm, and what that says about the role of access to lethal means in prevention.\n- How depression can show up as anger outbursts and lost impulse control rather than visible sadness — and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/U6hooJF6wPF6fib2UIxiCJPT3haZgYLNN9HJnTMTqd4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jZGVm/NmM3ZTQ5OTFjZjk3/NDZmZWNkYmVjN2Fj/OGFmMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}