Talking about bad runs with spouse/family

There was a recent article in EMS Magazine that talked about the value
of critical incident stress debriefing.  The doctor who wrote the
article stated that studies have shown that CISD doesn't really work.
The purpose of this post isn't to discuss the merits of CISD, but of
the letters that followed the article.  Several people wrote in saying
that CISD had been invaluable to them since, due to "patient privacy
laws", they couldn't discuss calls with their spouse or family.

This is one of the silliest myths I've ever read concerning our job.
I'm curious if there are people here who are under the assumption that
you can't discuss calls with your spouse, family or friends.  I'm
fairly well versed in HIPPA and patient privacy laws (at least in my
state), and I've never seen anything that restricts talking about
calls or patients so long as you don't discuss or reveal identifying
information.  To me, this would include patient address, location of
call, or (obviously) patient's name.

I talk about any run of note with my wife.  A conversation might be,
"I had a 14 year old kid shoot himself last night, it really bothered
me and several of the guys."  I've broken no laws in this kind of
conversation.  I guess it worries me that there are obviously many
people in our profession who believe they can't talk about the
specifics of their job with their spouse or family members, even
friends.  Good Lord, if I didn't have my wife to vent with about the
stresses of my job, I would have gone out on a section 8 a long time
ago.  

Bill, EMT-P