Title: Job Loss Depression
Headings: Job Loss Depression
Job Loss Depression
Content: Using the above example, you can see how job loss depression can escalate throughout the period of the person's unemployment. In addition to the financial and relational strain that job loss causes, individuals usually suffer from feelings of insecurity, inferiority, and suffer from low self-esteem. They also may suffer from feelings of uncertainty about their current and future job stability. These feelings, associated with job loss depression, can last up to two years even if they have become gainfully employed. In addition to the emotional impact of job loss depression, studies have proven job loss depression can also influence a person's physical health as well. Since anyone can lose their employment at any given time, anyone could be susceptible to job loss depression. Since it is not so much the initial act of losing one's job that causes the depression, but rather the crisis that job loss causes (or the "cascade of negative life events") you can prepare yourself for these situations by planning ahead. This preparation could encompass both financial planning for the future and mental health techniques that encourage you to find your value and self-worth outside the job market. This can be accomplished by knowing and remembering how much God loves you and how much value He places on you. Finding your value and self-worth through God's eyes, seeing yourself as God sees you, is a lasting, immutable way of finding and keeping a positive self-image.