Emotional Coping Mechanism can help people adjust to stressful events while helping them maintain their emotional well-being now and in the future.
The coronavirus pandemic damage to the job stability is likely to be deep and long lasting!
In current scenario, being laid off can be emotionally and cognitively overwhelming. This experience for most of us is unfathomable.
Being laid off will bring lot of hurt feelings. You worked hard for your company, often sacrificing family and personal time. Being laid off can feel like denial or rejection of all that honest effort. All these emotional, psychological and physical responses need a coping mechanism to help you bounce back to life.
Don’t let your hurt goad you into talking badly about your employer. Remember this is tough time for all. Everyone is doing their role in the best of the interest of an organisation and the challenged situation.
You need to address your feelings and find a best coping mechanism which can help you to tolerate, minimize and deal with stressful situation you are in this phase of life.
Ways of Coping with Emotional Stress Due to a Job Loss
Reach Out For Supportive Relationships
Talk your heart with close friends, family about your hurt and let the important people in your life know what is going on.
Accept help and support from people who care about you and will listen to you. Support and empathy is very helpful in moving through this emotional stress.
Take Care Of Your Body
You have been ignoring your fitness, health all this while due to no time in hand. But now its time to invest in some fitness regime.
Exercise is an antidote for stress. Choose an online workshop on any of your favorite exercise method-zumba, yoga, walking steps, cardio hiit etc.
Indulge in Mindful Eating and Sleeping. Create a discipline around your food and your sleep patterns to achieve an optimal functioning of your body and mind so that you can focus better on how and what you want from life from here on.
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Nurture Yourself
You were always stuck in something or the other due to deadlines. Always struggled maintaining balance between work and home, not getting time for yourself. Now do something for yourself that gives you happiness or makes you feel good.
Pick a hobby, go for a walk, take a cookery course, explore spirituality, read books, spend good time with your child, write a blog, mentor people on LinkedIn, upgrade your skills, become a YouTuber…anything that you always wanted but never got time for.
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Start Journal-ling
Write your thoughts, ideas and feelings. It can keep your head clear.
Write something useful, inspirational for others.
Writing is a useful way to vent negative feelings as well as a way to get a perspective to what you might be struggling.
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Keep A Positive Mental Attitude
Stop being critical and under estimating your abilities. It’s time for some self love and positive affirmations. Send some positive messages to yourself. Find reasons for your survival, to fight back, to be you and to be the best version of yourself. Plan Ahead…
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Find what you liked and disliked about your job. Find out what you really want your next job or move to be…It’s your second inning. Choose the best path forward to make yourself the best of your abilities. Decide what you really want to fit yourself in.
Look for opportunities which are open during Covid Pandemic. Make a shift in your career to explore something new that matches the best functional skills of yours.
Join a job seekers support group.
No-one can understand what you all going through than your peers. Often you can share your difficult feelings with support group which you otherwise resist to share with anyone. You may also get a good advice, or a networking lead or an opportunity to explore your new self.
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Its time to give yourself an opportunity and permission to explore something great and out of the box thing which you never tried in the comfort of your job.
Get Professional Help When Needed
If you are feeling very sad deep inside and are in complete despair, or feeling totally paralyzed. Seek the help of a mental health professional. Unemployment can lead to relationship problems at home in which case you may need the help of a couple counselor.
Look On A Brighter Side
Strangely, being laid off can be a good thing. A layoff pushes us “out of the nest” situation, which is more like a survival game and that pushes you to the best of your limits to explore something better which can change your life completely.
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