… from depression. Once practicing, lawyers are nearly four times more likely to suffer from depression than the average American. The extremely long hours, poor public opinion, difficult cases and clients, and moral battles within attorney/client privelege can be reasons why lawyers commit suicide at a rate of 1.33 times higher than the national average.
3. Financial Planners
This is a correlation between financial workers and suicide that has been witnessed by the public since the Great Depression when stock brokers who had been bankrupted leapt from buildings to their death. The suicide rate amongst financial workers in America is 1.51 times higher than average. In the first three months of 2014 alone, there were already 11 reported suicides amongst those in finance.
2. Dentists
When was the last time your truly happy to go to the dentist? Not many people can say that they were. A dentist’s suicide rate is 1.67 times higher than the American average. Being a dentist brings with it long hours, reluctant and difficult patients, and not a strong guarantee of success or stability. Because of this, studies suggest that dentists are more likely to suffer from mental disorders, but are also more reluctant to seek treatment for disorders.
1. Doctors
Doctors are 1.87 times more likely to commit suicide than the average American. While suicide accounts for roughly 2% of all deaths amongst the general population in the United States, 4% of all physician deaths are by suicide. The high stress nature of the job. Studies have shown when a doctor suffers from depression or another mental disorder, they are reluctant to seek treatment, potentially fearing for their practice if word of their own need for professional help were to be revealed.
9 Jobs With The Highest Suicide Rates was originally published on blackdoctor.org
