Mental Health | City worker death highlights importance of workplace mental health support

A city worker has died after falling from a building in Canary Wharf in a case that highlights the importance of mental health support in the workplace.

Eyewitness accounts, reported in the Sun, state that the man sent a text, put down his bag, then jumped four storeys to his death in the Canary Wharf Shopping Centre in East London on January 7. The police are not treating his death as suspicious.

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Speaking to Wall Street Journal after a spate of banker suicides between 2013 and 2014, Dr. Alden Cass, Psychologist and author of ‘Bullish Thinking: The Advisor's Guide to Surviving and Thriving on Wall Street’, suggested that those in high-pressure jobs are at particular risk when the job they consider a part of their identity doesn't match up with the lofty expectations they've set for themselves.

"The number one reason I get a referral is that a patient says to me 'For some reason I'm not making as much money as I used to," he said. “People feel replaceable.”