When Losing Your Job Feels Like Losing Yourself
The redundancy letter arrives and suddenly you’ve lost more than you income. You’ve lost the answer to “What do you do?” The structure organising your days. The identity built over years. For many people, losing a job means losing yourself. This isn’t just practical stress about money. It’s an identity crisis touching everything, often spiralling into depression. When work has defined your worth for decades, therapy helps untangle the two and rebuild on foundations that can’t be taken away by