Ian Hart Quotes

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in.

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'

People blame themselves for their own layoffs…. We ignore the effect on mental health. Every person in this society who is laid off is told that they lack value…. We undermine public health.

If I can't work, I don't know what to do with myself.

Being out of work is very depressing. But luckily I haven't been there for a long time.

Not working makes you ill, sad, depressed. It ages you.

When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

The pain of retirement means loss.

I was never very happy at school.

Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

I hate being out of work!

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

It's definitely a tough blow to your morale to get fired.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget.

Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.