“Work is so bad I don't want to be alive anymore”

What could be going on

Warning signs of suicide risk and self-harm: Talk of not wanting to live is a warning sign; reach out to a crisis line now.

Major depression: Check whether low mood and hopelessness spread across your whole life.

Burnout: Fits if exhaustion and cynicism have built up over months.

Learned helplessness: Fits if you feel nothing you do will change it.

Moral injury: Fits if distress comes from being forced to act against your values.

Covert depression in men (Terry Real): Fits if depression shows as irritability, overwork or numbness rather than sadness.

Also said as

• I'd rather die than go back to work
• my job makes me want to disappear
• I don't see the point of anything since work got bad
• thinking about ending it because of work stress
• my job is making me want to die
• I feel suicidal because of my work