{"id":291944,"date":"2026-02-11T07:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291944\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:05:20","slug":"firefighters-help-break-down-mental-health-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291944\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters help break down mental health stigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the service had been &#8220;really supportive&#8221; and that the podcast looks at the importance of opening up about how being a firefighter can affect people both on and off the fireground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The things we do see in the fire service are pretty horrific at times,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[And] historically, mental health can be a tough subject to talk about, especially in the fire service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firefighters said the podcast is not about giving clinical advice or replacing existing support, but about starting conversations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re not therapists or councillors but we&#8217;re here to break the stigma of mental health and [will be] just talking &#8211; talking and opening up,&#8221; Ralph added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said the service had been &#8220;really supportive&#8221; and that the podcast looks at the importance of opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-291944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}