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2025-02-01 Science & Technology

The Alarming Increase in Female Healthcare Worker Suicide

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-01 04:38|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Personal experience from years working in hospitals is that nursing staff were more likely to suffer from depression, particularly those working 2nd or midnight shift. Lack of social contact and the depressing effect of continuously dealing with the failing human body?

Posted by Mercutio 2025-02-01 10:22|| 2025-02-01 10:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I spent several years with far too much time inside of various hospital wards during cancer treatments for two family members a decade ago. It looks like an occupation filled with trauma, stress and adrenaline. Not sure how anyone survives as a nurse, EMT, fireman or policeman without a good spouse and an active prayer life.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-01 10:41|| 2025-02-01 10:41|| Front Page Top

#3 I spent several years with far too much time inside of various hospital wards during cancer treatments

Hallways filled with so many shambling/rolling, crying, walking dead the administration put up one-way traffic signs to guide them.

Waiting rooms of couches and plastic buckets for the chemo afflicted to recline and purge.

Hallway benches filled with fatigued passersby unable to make it room to room.

Patient checkins delayed while staff cleared the expired and sanitized their rooms.

Staff dining facilities shared with ambulatory patients, no relief for caregivers.

A full immersion PTSD development program.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-01 11:51|| 2025-02-01 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Not sure how anyone survives as a nurse, EMT, fireman or policeman without a good spouse and an active prayer life.

Fellow I know, grown, wife and kids, was considering Volunteer Fire. Noble, for sure, Minuteman lineage. I didn't crib that scene from the movie Act of Valor when they are about to deploy and the speech about having everything right at home beforehand, I referenced it, as any fissures at home will crack under the stress. Its all fun and games, I said, until "Its the middle of the night after a work day, and you are trying to dig Dad out from under the steering column, Mom is in the passenger seat with a Head & Face wound, and the kids are screaming in the back seat, and the clock is ticking. And you get home at 4am with all of that churning, and you have to be Dad in 2 hours getting ready to take the kids to their school day. You have to be able to bottle that shit so you don't talk to them like you were 3 sleepless hours ago like the teammate needing to get you the tool, over all the generators and chaos, because their school supplies aren't where they are supposed to be."

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-01 14:06|| 2025-02-01 14:06|| Front Page Top

#5 The question is:
How do you empty that bottle?

Along those lines, I have been given a Combat Vet Pass, and found we have the same issue: how do you talk to people to help pour that bottle with people who get out of their minds because their cheeseburger order "didn't come with the right cut of fried potatoes?"

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-01 14:15|| 2025-02-01 14:15|| Front Page Top

#6 And to go beyond, other dangerous jobs, metal smelting, electrical line running, weather related search and rescue, 'Use It or Lose It' occupations.

I'm going to put this out there:
The best immediate result is going to be acceptance that there are people who go do the shit and need to vent, and the casual BBQ people need to come to terms with them, not the other way around.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-01 14:43|| 2025-02-01 14:43|| Front Page Top

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