Upon examination of therapy and its inability to help people in parallel professions, a study found that in order for a person to be able to break through and offer effective help, one had to have "been there." The five most frequently cited stress themes are: (1) anger with management practices and administrative policies; (2) officers care about helping people but the job isn't what they expected; (3) lack of public support; (4) the types of people they work with change them for the worse; and (5) poor use of individual officer's talent and skills. Research shows that some police measure their success by how stressed-out they become. Police work is a high-stress occupation, however, the reasons why are in question. 1 figure