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A lot of pilots like flying planes. A lot of pilots also enjoy ancillary aspects of their career like seeing the world or, notoriously, sex with flight attendants. Telling pilots that, if they open up to a therapist, they can just live on the dole afterwards, is cold comfort.

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Sure but if a pilot is contemplating suicide I’m not sure they’re enjoying a whole lot of anything, ancillary to their career or not.

From what I have read in biographies on suicidal people in bands and performers, who show similar traits, they can/do enjoy things... it's just they are constantly looking for "more" and can't really get the easy fulfillment they used to, since it's hard to outperform their career highs.

I imagine it's similar with some pilots.

> sex with flight attendants

I can't tell whether that is a stereotype or not.

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