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When unemployment isolates you from your social world

I have been unemployed for eight months and I am embarrassed to tell people and I avoid social situations because I cannot afford them and I feel like I am disappearing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The compound loss of both professional identity and social access that accompanies extended joblessness.

Ideas that help explain it
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