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Share your tale of woe with the bartender

Emergency Management Alert, October 23, 2007

Feeling blue, aren't you? We know--but not because we're sympathetic. We know because the federal government tells us so. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), healthcare workers are right up there with bartenders and waitresses in their rate of major depressive episodes (MDE). The figures appeared in a report issued last week. In "Depression Among Adults Employed Full-Time, by Occupational Category," SAMHSA says that, among the 21 major occupational categories, the highest rates of past year MDE among full-time workers aged 18 to 64 were found in the personal care and service occupations (10.8%) and the food preparation and serving-related occupations (10.3%). Healthcare workers slogged in at 9.6%. The occupational categories with the lowest rates of past-year MDE were engineering, architecture, and surveying (4.3%); life, physical, and social science (4.4%); and installation, maintenance, and repair (4.4%).

But you mustn't let this bother you. You don't believe everything the federal government tells you, do you?

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