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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Backpack: A Wounded Police Officer's Struggle with the Burden All Cops Share

The Backpack: A Wounded Police Officer's Struggle with the Burden All Cops Share

Hultink, Brandon S.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 161035351X
ISBN13: 9781610353519
Publisher: Quill Driver Books
Published: Apr 7 2020
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Wounded in the line of duty and paralyzed, police officer Brandon Hultink made an amazing journey from despair to hope.

I can still remember the taste of metal in my mouth from the barrel of the gun ... After the shoot-out that put him in a wheelchair, police officer Brandon Hultink was ready to put an end to it all. In his frank and compelling memoir The Backpack, Hultink tells how he came to the worst moment of his life, and how faith in God and the humility to accept help brought him out of depression, addiction, and the wheelchair and back into successful life.

But Hultink's story isn't his alone--it is also the story of the thousands of police officers who struggle with depression and post-traumatic stress. Cops don't do touchy-feely; they stuff every trauma into a metaphorical backpack until the burden overwhelms them. Hultink writes unflinchingly of the mental health crisis affecting police officers and offers proposals for improving mental health services for police.

An intensely personal story of anguish and survival, The Backpack offers hope to everyone--police and civilian alike--who struggles with depression and pain.

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