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When job loss brings unexpected emotional complexity

I got laid off from a job I hated and I feel guilty that part of me is relieved, like I am not allowed to have complicated feelings about my own financial crisis.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social expectations about appropriate responses to economic hardship silence authentic emotional experience and delay genuine processing.

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