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How Long-Term Unemployment Affects Self-Worth

I have been unemployed for eight months and my savings are almost gone and I am starting to take any rejection personally like there is something fundamentally wrong with me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic rejection begins to feel like existential judgment, transforming circumstance into identity.

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