Trauma in Transit Podcast https://traumaintransit.podbean.com The shift ends. The job doesn't.

Trauma in Transit is for the people who carry it home — nurses, medics, dispatchers, cops, firefighters. Julian Apodaca is an ER and critical care nurse who reads the peer-reviewed research and tells you what it says, including the parts that are weaker than anyone admits.

No diagnoses. No treatment. No promises it gets easier.

If you're a healthcare worker or a first responder and you can't shake the job, this is for you.

Nobody codes alone.

]]> Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:18:18 -0300 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2026 All rights reserved. Health & Fitness:Mental Health 1440 episodic Episode zero of Trauma in Transit. First responder mental health, from the parking lot. I sat in my truck after a shift and asked the questions nobody asked me. Burnout is a description, not a mechanism. It says what it looks like from outside and nothing about what’s happening inside. That’s why nothing built on that word ever helped you. Season: PTSD, trauma, addiction, withdrawal, recovery, treatment. Nurse Jules. Explicit. #firstresponder #ernurse #paramedic #ptsd #shiftwork Nurse Jules (Julian Apodaca, RN) Nurse Jules (Julian Apodaca, RN) No true https://feed.podbean.com/traumaintransit/feed.xml https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/22610161/trauma-in-transit-cover-1400.jpg Trauma in Transit Podcast https://traumaintransit.podbean.com 144 144 Nobody Called It Avoidance. I Called It My Coping Skill. Nobody Called It Avoidance. I Called It My Coping Skill. https://traumaintransit.podbean.com/e/nobody-called-it-avoidance-i-called-it-my-coping-skill/ https://traumaintransit.podbean.com/e/nobody-called-it-avoidance-i-called-it-my-coping-skill/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:18:18 -0300 traumaintransit.podbean.com/06d47f89-6630-3382-9526-80264450a28d Nobody Called It Avoidance. I Called It My Coping Skill.

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Nobody ever called it avoidance. They called it decompressing. Unwinding. Having a couple. Taking the edge off.

I worked EMS in a rural county outside Albuquerque. My old service used to tell us nobody dies in the ambulance — the reasoning being that you go offline for a few hours on protocols. So nobody ever did. It wasn't until years later that I found that a strange thing to be told by administration. At the time I just did my job.

One call still sits with me. This episode starts there, and then takes apart the thing I did afterward that I called coping.

00:00 The call — a rollover outside Albuquerque 02:59 Alcohol, GABA, and why it works 06:49 Don't stop cold on your own 08:07 What it does to your sleep 09:26 The part I don't tell people 12:03 What actually helps — and the dropout numbers 14:36 One thing, tonight

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Nobody ever called it avoidance. They called it decompressing. Unwinding. Having a couple. Taking the edge off.

I worked EMS in a rural county outside Albuquerque. My old service used to tell us nobody dies in the ambulance — the reasoning being that you go offline for a few hours on protocols. So nobody ever did. It wasn't until years later that I found that a strange thing to be told by administration. At the time I just did my job.

One call still sits with me. This episode starts there, and then takes apart the thing I did afterward that I called coping.

00:00 The call — a rollover outside Albuquerque
02:59 Alcohol, GABA, and why it works
06:49 Don't stop cold on your own
08:07 What it does to your sleep
09:26 The part I don't tell people
12:03 What actually helps — and the dropout numbers
14:36 One thing, tonight

]]> Nurse Jules (Julian Apodaca, RN) true No 904 2 full Nobody Asked Me These Questions | Trauma in Transit — Episode 0 Nobody Asked Me These Questions | Trauma in Transit — Episode 0 https://traumaintransit.podbean.com/e/nobody-asked-me-these-questions-trauma-in-transit-%e2%80%94-episode-0/ https://traumaintransit.podbean.com/e/nobody-asked-me-these-questions-trauma-in-transit-%e2%80%94-episode-0/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:40:41 -0300 juapodaca88.podbean.com/14d0bb9d-b998-3df5-8fb6-639ea9938ec3 Episode zero of Trauma in Transit. First responder mental health, from the parking lot.

Season: PTSD, trauma, addiction, withdrawal, recovery, treatment.

Nurse Jules. Explicit.

#firstresponder #ernurse #paramedic #ptsd #shiftwork

]]> Episode zero of Trauma in Transit. First responder mental health, from the parking lot.

Season: PTSD, trauma, addiction, withdrawal, recovery, treatment.

Nurse Jules. Explicit.

#firstresponder #ernurse #paramedic #ptsd #shiftwork

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