http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2007/06/12/hscout605489.html
2007-06-12 10:54:05 · 6 answers · asked by captain_koyk 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Police or public safety officers (I imagine the military fits into this catagory) are at risk for suicide. The hours of work, the scenes they witness daily, the availability of guns, and the silence encouraged by the profession (keeping within the "wall-of-blue"), as well as alcohol usage and divorces contribute to this risk.
Physicians, especially those who deal with progressively terminally ill patients, have a high rate of suicide. In the United States, the medical field loses the equivalent of a medical school class each year by suicide.
Dentists have a high suicide rate. Perhaps, elements of obsessive and perfectionist tendencies combined with personal feelings of isolation may contribute to this high number of self-induced deaths.
2007-06-12 11:09:28 · answer #1 · answered by Smart Kat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you fought and killed for your country and you came home to people who hated you for doing what you thought was right you might be a little more likely to be suicidal or homicidal too.
2007-06-12 10:58:46 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just more Liberal bullsh!t Democrats add to the media to win weak minded peoples votes!
2007-06-12 10:58:59 · answer #3 · answered by ............... 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because veterans are traumatized by their experience overseas.
2007-06-12 10:57:29 · answer #4 · answered by GiRLfrM510 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it is because some of them just can't handle being hated, & spit on by the Liberal Democrats.
2007-06-12 10:58:27 · answer #5 · answered by wolf 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It means they carry ghosts around most folks don't.
2007-06-12 10:57:07 · answer #6 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋