A female psychiatric resident

Those statistics are merely association. That there is an association between being a shrink and suicide, doctor and suicide, a female shrink and diviorce etc. cannot be attributed to the status of female doc, or shrink or whatever. The group to which you belong, docs and shrinks, was acquired not by random selection, but by some very biased choices on your part and upon the part of many others along your career path. Traits that make you desire being a doc and a shrink, as well as traits that make people accept you into the medical field, are the root cause of the ills that follow.

It has always been painfully obveous to those outside psychiatry that some, perhaps many, entering the field self select for that because they share some traits in common with their patients. In the tradition of ‘Physician heal thyself’, the slightly off kilter seem to gravitate to psychiatry. And egomaniacals to surgery, and drug abusers to anesthesia, and guys with a prominent brow line to orthopedics etc.