Coaching practices for How to Deal with Job Loss Depression

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• They handled the money, or the cooking, or were just the person I leaned on
• There’s this nameless background fear about losing my job or my income that I never look at directly, so it just hums under everything
• I keep my head down and stay busy so I never actually feel the loss, and now it ambushes me at random and won’t metabolize
• I’ve gone quiet on everyone
• Things that used to be nothing

Practices that may help

1. Task 3: Adjust to a world without the person
   Actively develop new skills, roles, and identity elements to navigate the changed life.
   Worden’s Tasks of Mourning, Made Practical
2. Imagine losing your work or income
   Briefly contemplate life without your current livelihood, to loosen financial anxiety and restore perspective.
   Negative Visualization, the Stoic Practice
3. Deliberately engage loss-oriented work
   Set aside dedicated time to directly face the grief — the emotions, the absence, the meaning of the loss.
   The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
4. Schedule social contact as a priority activity
   Treat social interaction as a prescribed activity, not as something to do when you feel ready.
   Pleasant Events Scheduling, Made Practical
5. Grade activity difficulty upward gradually
   Start with the easiest feasible pleasant activity and increase demands only after success.
   Pleasant Events Scheduling, Made Practical
6. Identify and address secondary stressors
   Name the practical, identity, and relational challenges the loss has created — and work on them as restoration.
   The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
7. Make extra deposits during difficult life periods
   External stress drains PSO — consciously increase positive interactions when life is hard.
   Positive Sentiment Override: How to Build the Lens That Protects Relationships
8. Reframing loss as transformation
   When something ends or is lost, practise asking what it is becoming rather than only mourning what it was.
   Zhuangzi and the Practice of Perspective Shift
9. Identify and interrupt avoidance and withdrawal patterns
   Notice when you are avoiding or withdrawing and treat it as the maintenance mechanism, not self-care.
   Behavioral Activation: Acting Your Way Out of Low Mood
10. Task 1: Accept the full reality of the loss
    Move from intellectual acknowledgement to full emotional acceptance that the person is gone.
    Worden’s Tasks of Mourning, Made Practical

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