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I really don't know how stressful our profession is compared to others. The CDC puts computer programmers at #8 for suicides. So we are between police officers (#6) and doctors (#12).
The statistics aren't broken out by gender so that could be skewing things because we know men kill themselves three times more often than women and our profession is overwhelmingly skewed towards males.
My guess is that lots of the stress in our profession is caused by unrealistic expectations (both internal and external).
So, yes, I agree, don't stress yourself out over PSP or anything else if you can help it.
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I really don't know how stressful our profession is compared to others. The CDC puts computer programmers at #8 for suicides. So we are between police officers (#6) and doctors (#12).
Source: ctvnews.ca/health/suicide-rates-hi...
The statistics aren't broken out by gender so that could be skewing things because we know men kill themselves three times more often than women and our profession is overwhelmingly skewed towards males.
My guess is that lots of the stress in our profession is caused by unrealistic expectations (both internal and external).
So, yes, I agree, don't stress yourself out over PSP or anything else if you can help it.