unemployment

Job Loss on Menthal Health When people lose their jobs, as a result of they might have a significant deterioration in mental health occurs. The term unemployment is defined and operationalized determines who is included and exclude (Gilder G 1981). May have a significantly detrimental effect in depression, anxiety and psychosomatic symptoms. The principal aim is to investigate whether a relationship exists between job loss and mental health. Mental health is more than an absence of mental illness. It affects our capacity to learn, to communicate, and to form and sustain relationships. (a Report of the Surgeon General, United States, Department of Health and Human Services (1999). Firstly, the depression is usually a state of despair that gives the person a feeling of hopelessness and very attached to discouragement and despair. The depression is a sickness as a result it has many symptoms as insomnia, loss of appetite, sadness, irritability and many more them. There are also factors beyond our control that lead to depression, such as: loss of employment or a loved one, illness or lack of good opportunities in life, the employment will think that is very difficult to find a new job and if the unemployed has family will be a more difficult situation for the economic problems, and support the family, children, school, food etc. The second one is anxiety is characterized by excessive, exaggerated worry about everyday life events. People with symptoms of anxiety tend to always expect disaster and appear to be unable to stop worrying about health, money, and family, work or school, that have a large and significant impact on mental health. The exact cause of generalized anxiety disorder is not fully known, but a number of factors-including genetics, brain chemistry and environmental stressors-appear to contribute to its development. The unemployed that suffering with generalized anxiety

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