Coping With Unemployment’s Emotional Toll

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Few things in life can hit you as hard emotionally than being unemployed. Even if you’ve been laid off before or you knew the layoff was coming, the act of being rendered jobless stings.

Fortunately there are many positive ways to cope with emotional toll that come with unemployment. Here’s one how-to take from four experts interviewed by the Chicago Tribune:

You walk out of your office building, belongings in hand, jobless. It’s a familiar situation, with unemployment stuck at 9.1% in the U.S.

What next? In addition to the immediate concerns regarding finances, there are the possibly more daunting emotional matters. How do you cope and move on?

Q: What challenges do unemployed people face?

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