Someone asked me at a party "so what do you do?" and I froze, because the answer I'd given for twenty years isn't true anymore. Losing the job didn't just take the paycheck, it took the thing I'd point to when I wanted to say who I was. Now I stand in that silence and genuinely don't know how to finish the sentence.
More people experience this than they realize.
Losing your job took the identity you'd built your whole sense of self on.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.