Are teachers really more stressed than anyone else?

[EcoCalc]

Stumbled across a news article with a teacher who said the stress was so bad she considered crashing her car just so she didn’t have to go to work. Iots of people on my Facebook feed agreeing that that was their experience.

Maybe I just don’t get it but surely teachers don’t have the monopoly on stress. I always get the impression that they feel their jobs are much worse than anyone else’s. Is it more that the personality type attracted to teaching isn’t necessarily equipped for the same levels of stress that lawyers or doctors have?

Just curious about people’s thoughts. Is teaching the MOST stressful thing in the world as it is being depicted as being?

I once heard that schools and prisons are the only places that you get no choice about having to go to. People can self-discharge from hospital. (Not that hospitals are an oasis of peace, especially A&E on a Saturday night...)

Admittedly most of us choose to avoid prison by living within the law. Home schooling is only an option if your parents feel it is economically and socially viable, and a large proportion HE because their relationship with the school system became broken.

Mitzik Couldn't have put it better myself.
Stress in teaching is a given.
This thread is going round in circles.

Perfectly put Mitzik