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The alarming rise in suicide cases linked to work pressure has sparked a conversation about toxic workplace culture on social media. What was once brushed off as “part of the hustle” is now being questioned more openly, with professionals sharing personal experiences of anxiety, depression, and isolation ignited by toxic work environments.
Dr Matthew Nock, a Harvard psychologist, recently shared his insights on suicide prevention, and talked about careers that are linked to higher suicide risk. Speaking to Jay Shetty on the On Purpose podcast, Nock noted that suicidal thoughts induced by work pressure vary from race and ethnicity.
“Physicians are at high risk. Police officers are at high risk. There was a big concern a few years back, and then there was a spike in suicides among New York City police officers. We did a study on this. New York City police officers are mostly white men. There was a blip up one year, and it came down,” Nock said.
“Female police officers had a higher risk even when accounting for age, race and ethnicity—occupations where a person has access to means. This is another explanation for why physicians, why police officers, why soldiers, army soldiers, service members do have a significantly higher risk of suicide. Access to means, we think we think plays a role,” Nock added.
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Nock further emphasised the perils of artificial intelligence (AI) on mental health. “It’s an interesting time to be a little cliche, but in terms of the possibilities of machine learning of generative AI of all the data points that we are getting, I think there’s huge promise in these advances, but there’s also a lot of dangers,” he said.
“It’s amazing how humanlike these technologies currently are, but they are not human, and they are missing things. The AI right now often gets it wrong. It is (AI) is screwing up majorly,” Nock said.
