The unemployment rate today has skyrocketed to approximately 10% and is forecast to stay above 9.5 percent for the rest of 2011. For the first time in American history, more women are working than men because close to 80 percent of the people laid off in the recent recession were men.
According to a recent study published in the “International Journal of Epidemiology,” unemployment is a major risk factor for depression, even in people without previous vulnerability. Because my husband is an architect — the housing market is dead, remember — whose work has slowed down substantially, I have an invested interest in this topic and wanted to know what I could do to help him stay physically and emotionally healthy, since, theoretically, one of us should be.
Here, then, are 12 steps to bust your depression when you’re unemployed.
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I wonder about if this kind of reactions to be unemployed, are reals depressions? I think that being unemployed is a real factor of risk and an estresor, but we should be carefull about the diagnosis and not treat as a depression a normal reaction to the estres.
Depression is depression regardless of the cause. Circumstances and biochemistry may influence the degree of depression, but being depressed is like being pregnant: You either are or you aren’t. It doesn’t matter whether you want to throw yourself off of a bridge because you are out of work or because you are bipolar and feel you can’t take it anymore. You’re still depressed, and it still hurts.
the human suffering is real and no matter what is the cause. Everybody felt it some time. But the degree of suffering can be different. The mental disorder are not categorical labels black or white. The same symptoms can be a depression in someone and a feel of lost in another one. It depends of the consecuences and repercusion that the symptoms have in his life. We must not forget the effects of a diagnosis, specially of a mental disorder, can have for the person in the sense of make pathological something that is normal. This tendency could explain, in addition of others reasons, the abuse of psychopharmacos in normal life.