Are you Depressed? You shouldn't be...
Are you Depressed? You shouldn't be...
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News
10/13/2007 17:44:48 EST Report Ranks Jobs by Rates of Depression
By KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - People who tend to the elderly, change diapers and serve up food and drinks have the highest rates of depression among U.S. workers.
Overall, 7 percent of full-time workers battled depression in the past year, according to a government report available Saturday.
Women were more likely than men to have had a major bout of depression, and younger workers had higher rates of depression than their older colleagues.
Almost 11 percent of personal care workers - which includes child care and helping the elderly and severely disabled with their daily needs - reported depression lasting two weeks or longer.
During such episodes there is loss of interest and pleasure, and at least four other symptoms surface, including problems with sleep, eating, energy, concentration and self-image.
Workers who prepare and serve food - cooks, bartenders, waiters and waitresses - had the second highest rate of depression among full-time employees at 10.3 percent.
In a tie for third were health care workers and social workers at 9.6 percent.
The lowest rate of depression, 4.3 percent, occurred in the job category that covers engineers, architects and surveyors.
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News
10/13/2007 17:44:48 EST Report Ranks Jobs by Rates of Depression
By KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - People who tend to the elderly, change diapers and serve up food and drinks have the highest rates of depression among U.S. workers.
Overall, 7 percent of full-time workers battled depression in the past year, according to a government report available Saturday.
Women were more likely than men to have had a major bout of depression, and younger workers had higher rates of depression than their older colleagues.
Almost 11 percent of personal care workers - which includes child care and helping the elderly and severely disabled with their daily needs - reported depression lasting two weeks or longer.
During such episodes there is loss of interest and pleasure, and at least four other symptoms surface, including problems with sleep, eating, energy, concentration and self-image.
Workers who prepare and serve food - cooks, bartenders, waiters and waitresses - had the second highest rate of depression among full-time employees at 10.3 percent.
In a tie for third were health care workers and social workers at 9.6 percent.
The lowest rate of depression, 4.3 percent, occurred in the job category that covers engineers, architects and surveyors.
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Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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msquared48,
I think you may not be far off the mark. I'll bet more care providers know the symptoms of depression than people who choose technical professions, like engineering, architecture and surveying. Care providers are more adept at being in touch with those emotions and having the ability to interpret them. I'd be interested to know where doctors fall in the spectrum. That might eliminate some of the influence of income on depression.
"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"
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Ciao.
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csd
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Or maybe the fact that humor is in the details, one time I had a question:
If I have 12% sour gas in my well do I need sour service equipment?
I asked - is that 12% by volume, 12% mass, or 12% molar mass?
Dead silence - I laughed about it - but no one else got the joke.
roadapple
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Kevin
“It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class." ~Author Unknown
"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." ~Author Unknown
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What's a "spings"? Is that that thing in Egypt?
Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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I know depression isn't the opposite of happy but, I know plenty of unhappy engineers at my ccurrent employer right now.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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Wow it seems that working will keep you from being depressed and not working will make you more depressed. Well that's good, because I am going to work for the rest of my life. In some defense companies, when engineers retire, they pass away at least 2 to 3 years later, and some even come back to work till their 75. I wonder if there are any tallies on the life span of a retired person per field of work?
Tobalcane
"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."
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Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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m^2; some how i got an A in english!
I found this collection of data:
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And it is kinda interesting, they leave out a few facts that I would like to know with might give more insite, like women in Jobs like; fishing farming construction..etc.
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I was feeling a bit depressed the other day, so I called the Depression Help Hotline. I was put through to a 'call center' in Pakistan. I explained that I was feeling suicidal. They were very excited at this news and wanted to know if I could drive a truck or fly an airplane....
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Hg
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My next-door neighbour is in his 80's and doesn't stop, does our (small) garden for us, and that of an elderly aunt, fixes the fences, you name it.
Hope I'm like that.
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Ever since I'm retired, I've never been this busy before!
Always pops up in my mind when talking about retirement, luckily I'm only 27, so I have a long time to go!
IJsbrand
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I believe being happy is a choice we all have to make every morning. I ofter wonder if folks that actually suffer from depression have given up that choice.
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KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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If you'd ever knwon anyone with depression, or suffered from it yourself, you would understand that it's not as simple as choosing to be happy.
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IMO, happy people make the world a better place and frankly we have a moral obligation to be happy. I have suffered brief periods of depression as a result from the pain medication I have taken from a very bad sports related injury. I'm not trying to be insensitive to a real problem just merely trying to stimulate dialog....maybe this is the wrong forum....happy Friday.
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I'm doing well if I just make a choice not to be a miserable/honary *** each day.
Not sure it's a moral obligation to make ones self be happy but I do have leanings toward the 'put your big girl panties on and get over it' end of the spectrum.
However, I'm not a qualified medical proffesional so am out of my knowledge base. Mental illness in its many forms is a real problem which many of us probably don't take as seriously/aren't as sympathetic to as we should be.
Gymmeh, I've had the same thought. I guess when your very survival depends on getting on with it though that's a real motivating factor.
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Or better yet, drop them off in a jungle with tom cruse!
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Heckler![[americanflag] americanflag](https://www.tipmaster.com/images/americanflag.gif)
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SWx 2007 SP 4.0 & Pro/E 2001
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This is probably seeming pretty insensitive to most people suffering or with friends/relatives suffering from mental illness so I'll probably stop there.
Happy Friday to you too Hekler,
Kenat Out!
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However I will stop here also, to go camping for the weekend
Have a Happy weekend.
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Come talk to me again sometime after you get hit with a wave of utterly causeless anguish that knocks you literally to the ground. "Happiness" is not the opposite of depression.
Hg
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Had quite a lot of sh1t myself this year. Sounds like your sh1t may trump mine.