Getting to the point where you are comfortable enough to build a viable full-time income from your music is probably something that many music-makers reading aspire towards. Yet, new research, published by the journal Frontiers in Public Health, indicate strongly that entering into this industry could push you into potentially perilous waters when it comes to your mental health.
This new research reveals the alarming extent of the problem, with musicians’ suicide rates ranking among the highest in the world.
This makes the music industry - in the words of one of the co-authors of the study - “a profoundly dangerous place”.
The study spotlighted that musicians in England had the fourth biggest suicide rate amongst certain occupational groups (the others being construction workers, building finishing tradespeople and agricultural workers).
