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Stacey Rosenberg, a former marketing manger in Boston, knows the catastrophic feeling of a layoff. She has lost her job twice in the midst of the recession.
“When I first got laid off, I sort of had a mission. I wanted to get a new job as quickly as possible, and when it became apparent that that was not going to happen very quickly, it was very upsetting for me,” Rosenberg says.
Unemployed for months, Rosenberg started retreating from friends and family, spending more time by herself. Since early summer, she’s sought help inside a psychotherapist’s office.
“I had to figure out how to deal with it the second time around, because I did so poorly the first time around,” she says.
No formal data exist on the number of Americans who are turning to therapy during the recession, but most clinical psychologists say that referrals are up.
“This is really unprecedented,” says Nancy Molitor, a clinical psychologist in Chicago, Illinois. “I’ve been practicing for 20 years, and I’m seeing just an unprecedented amount of anxiety, as are most of my colleagues.” Click to continue reading
Source: CNN
