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...write about the different stages that you went through afterward. What was that like? It's absolutely grief. In fact, I think it's worse than if someone had died, because this person chose to leave you. I mean, that's as big a rejection as can be. He did not want to marry me, and I thought, "I must be some kind of horrible person to have someone do this." I'd never heard of this happening to anybody, you know? It was just a complete depression...
...Brendan Burchell, a Cambridge sociologist, presented his analysis based on various surveys conducted across Europe. The data suggest that employed people who feel insecure in their job display similar levels of anxiety and depression as those who are unemployed. But whereas a newly jobless person's mental health may "bottom out" after about six months, and then even begin to improve, the mental state of people who are perpetually worried about losing their job "just continues to deteriorate, getting worse and worse," Burchell says. (See 150 recession-proof jobs...
...economic change on mental health since 1991. Both Burchell's study and the British Household Survey used a 12-item questionnaire - called the GHQ 12 - that is designed to measure symptoms of stress and anxiety with questions like "Have you recently been thinking of yourself as a worthless person?" and "Have you recently been able to concentrate on whatever you are doing...
...doing this job shaped the kind of person you are? This job has completely redefined who I am and has completely changed my outlook on the world. It's a very depressing life and it's a very lonely life. Most of the time, I'm pretending to be somebody that I'm not. Most of my social interactions are under the pretext that I'm a different person and that I'm trying to hide a certain part of myself...
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