#mental health crisis
[TW: mental health crisis, depression, pandemia]
I’m still depressed and a bit worst than yesterday, and yesterday I didn’t made what I needed to do (stuff from college).
But I sunbathed and exercised.
Gosh, years ago I saw on tumblr that recovery is boring and for sure is boring, but it’s way better than relapse……….
I need to remember my reasons to recovery and the person I want to become and I need to do better. Today I need to do better than I did yesterday and tomorrow I’ll need to do better than today.
I’m thinking about going out, walk on the streets and sit on a park.
Damn, I’m getting worst at communicating and kind of start to getting afraid to going out because coronavirus and this is not funny.
Gosh, I’ve been talking more here, because I’m lonely, but I don’t want to talk to people at the same time.
I really think I would feel better if I could distract myself, like with a job, for example, but damn… I even sent my curriculum to supermarkets and no answer, I’m awful at communicating and I get VERY stressed when looking for a job. I mean, the solution could be selling my art online, right? Lol
Well, 1 month of college and I’m already procrastinating and still feeling bad lol the problem it’s me or on me. Being unemployed is not the reason of my problems.
It’s going to be okay, I’ll have a nice afternoon, I’ll embroider or paint, I’ll study and everything is going to be okay. And in 7 months I’ll be a better person, everything is going to be better.
Pharmacists at Higher Risk of Suicide than General Population
The pandemic put a spotlight on burnout and suicide among physicians and nurses, but until now, less was known about the mental health of pharmacists.
In the first study to report pharmacist suicide rates in the United States, a team of researchers led by Kelly C. Lee, PharmD, professor of clinical pharmacy at UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, found that suicide rates are higher among pharmacists compared to non-pharmacists, at an approximate rate of 20 per 100,000 pharmacists compared to 12 per 100,000 in the general population. Results of the longitudinal study were published May 13, 2022 in Journal of the American Pharmacists Association.
The most common means of suicide in this population was firearms, followed by poisoning and suffocation. The prevalence of firearm usage was similar between pharmacists and the general population, but poisoning via benzodiazepines, antidepressants and opioids was more frequent among pharmacists.
The data also provide some insight into contributing factors, including a history of mental illness and a high prevalence of job problems. Job problems are the most common feature of suicides across health care professions.
For pharmacists, Lee said job problems reflect significant changes in the industry in recent years, with more pharmacists employed by hospitals and chain retailers than small, private pharmacies more common in the past. The responsibilities of a pharmacist have also grown considerably, with larger volumes of pharmaceuticals to dispense and increasing demands to administer vaccines and other health care services.
“Pharmacists have many more responsibilities now, but are expected to do them with the same resources and compensation they had 20 years ago,” said Lee. “And with strict monitoring from state and federal regulatory boards, pharmacists are expected to perform in a fast-paced environment with perfect accuracy. It’s difficult for any human to keep up with that pressure.”
Future research will further evaluate which job problems have the biggest impact and how the field can better respond. In the meantime, Lee advised pharmacists to encourage help-seeking behaviors amongst themselves and their colleagues.
“Mental health is still highly stigmatized, and often even more so among health professionals,” said Lee. “Even though we should know better, there is such an expectation to appear strong, capable and reliable in our roles that we struggle to admit any vulnerabilities. It’s time to take a look at what our jobs are doing to us and how we can better support each other, or we are going to lose our best pharmacists.”
— Nicole Mlynaryk
If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
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MTG constituent ‘Burnitdown’ thinks Hillary Clinton ‘cut a girl’s face off and she wore it’: report
One of the most vocal supporters of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Rome, Georgia was the feature of a lengthy profile published online by The Washington Post on Saturday evening.
Reporter Stephanie McCrummen, who was part of the newspaper’s team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Roy Moore’s sex scandals, profiled Angela Rubino.
Rubino had never voted until Trump inspired her in 2016, but is now living a MAGA lifestyle.
“Six years into the grass-roots movement unleashed by Donald Trump in his first presidential campaign, Angela Rubino is a case study in what that movement is becoming. Suspicious of almost everything, trusting of almost nothing, believing in almost no one other than those who share her unease, she has in many ways become a citizen of a parallel America — not just red America, but another America entirely, one she believes to be awash in domestic enemies, stolen elections, immigrant invaders, sexual predators, the machinations of a global elite and other fresh nightmares revealed by the minute on her social media scrolls,” McCrummen wrote.
can Trump voters qualify for reduced-cost psychotherapy? they are clearly deranged and need psychiatric help! #trump voters are crazy
