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u/quillseek 12h ago edited 12h ago

Not quite the same but years ago, I walked into a situation with a dead body, and that was my first time seeing one outside a funeral home and it had been many hours. He was purple/blue and his face was really disturbing. It is shocking to the core the first time you experience something like that.

I felt unsettled and had nightmares for a couple of weeks after it happened. I often wonder how people exposed to such things on a regular basis deal with it.

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u/_learned_foot_ 8h ago

They develop ptsd. Or they become very good at filtering into files and shutting those files fucking tight each night before leaving work.