Hi All!
Has anyone here heard of job search depression?
I swear I have it. It's kind of a self esteem thing too though. It is a thing, I looked it up on the internet. There is job search anxiety too, which I think I've had on occasion as well.
Every time I do a job search, I feel depressed like I'm useless and rubbish at pretty much anything or everything useful enough to gain me employment. It makes me feel so low. It's like I'm only good enough to do a job that requires no brain cells whatsoever. Sticking labels on packets or lugging boxes etc etc, which I've done before, and the thought of quite frankly depresses me just as much as the uselessness, if not more. Not saying there's anything wrong with that kind of work but hardly challenging is it, and it's very monotonous.
It's a real concern though. I mention it to people and they just laugh. They don't understand. I just feel useless and spend no more than 10 minutes job searching until I close the newspaper or click off the website. I'm 40 and if you add up all the months I've worked since leaving school at 16, it adds up to about 3 years. I did have a lost decade though which I won't go into here. From 2001-2011. I haven't always been a bum lol! and spent 6 years of that time in education.
Anyway, just thought I'd mention it and see if people here have had anything similar, and if anyone knows what the answer is. I need a job, a job is vital for life to be honest and not having one is a vital factor in why I get low mood / depression. Not to mention it stops you from being able to anything due to lack of money.
Thanks!
Has anyone here heard of job search depression?
I swear I have it. It's kind of a self esteem thing too though. It is a thing, I looked it up on the internet. There is job search anxiety too, which I think I've had on occasion as well.
Every time I do a job search, I feel depressed like I'm useless and rubbish at pretty much anything or everything useful enough to gain me employment. It makes me feel so low. It's like I'm only good enough to do a job that requires no brain cells whatsoever. Sticking labels on packets or lugging boxes etc etc, which I've done before, and the thought of quite frankly depresses me just as much as the uselessness, if not more. Not saying there's anything wrong with that kind of work but hardly challenging is it, and it's very monotonous.
It's a real concern though. I mention it to people and they just laugh. They don't understand. I just feel useless and spend no more than 10 minutes job searching until I close the newspaper or click off the website. I'm 40 and if you add up all the months I've worked since leaving school at 16, it adds up to about 3 years. I did have a lost decade though which I won't go into here. From 2001-2011. I haven't always been a bum lol! and spent 6 years of that time in education.
Anyway, just thought I'd mention it and see if people here have had anything similar, and if anyone knows what the answer is. I need a job, a job is vital for life to be honest and not having one is a vital factor in why I get low mood / depression. Not to mention it stops you from being able to anything due to lack of money.
Thanks!