Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Counselling to Help You Deal With Redundancy

If you are made redundant after a long time, or even after you are 40, then you can feel as if life is effectively over and you have been thrown onto the employment scrap heap. It is easy to start thinking that nobody wants you, nobody values the skills and experience that you have and it is difficult to accept how things are.

Or you may be young, having enjoyed a high flying career, commanded respect, driven the Porsche and now, you are queuing up at the Job centre. How do people cope?

Well most people recognise that it is a very difficult time and for some people the only answer is to receive counselling, so that they can talk through their emotions, feelings and ideas with a trained professional who will be well equipped to assist them.

Counselling is often available from your GP, or you may be able to talk to someone at your local MIND or a similar mental health charity, or there are plenty of private counsellors around: but you may not have the money to spend on counsellors, if you have just been made redundant, so it may be worth talking to your GP.

A counsellor can help you to thrash out your feelings, can help you retain or even regain a sense of self esteem and they can help you to plan for the future and hopefully avoid you sinking into depression.

If you can't access counselling, or just do not want to, then what you should do is talk to a good friend, whose advice you value, to help you have a sense of balance and retain the capacity to see that this is bad, but it is not the end of the world.

But there is no longer any sense of shame in talking to a counsellor or even a psychotherapist, to gain some kind of insight into what emotions and feelings are really going on in your mind and how you can deal with them and move forwards.

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