Could Your Job be the Root of Your Depression?
An interesting study was just released brom the Substance Abuse and Mental Helath Service Administration.
The report noted the professions with the highest rates of depression.
Personal care professions such as child care, caring for the elderly and the disabled came in at the highest at 11%.
Next highest was the food service industry such as food preps, bartenders, waiters and waitresses at 10.3%
The third highest were health care and social workers ringing in at 9.6%.
The professions with the lowest percentage of depression were engineers, architects and surveyors.
Another interesting tidbit that came out of this study is about depression and employment. Those employed averaged a 7% depression rate and those unemployed represented a 12.7% depression rate (highest value in the entire study.)
The take home—Lack of Control!!
As Dr. Pamela Smith has mentioned in her latest book, Demystifying Weight Loss, in regards to professions with the highest level of stress were ones with the least control.(see related articles on this site on adrenal fatigue).