That is so true. I would be interested in knowing how to get into the minds of people who are depressed and help strengthen their inner self. The entire community would stand to benefit.
Industrial psychology has a whole subdivision concerned with people who have lost jobs; as in risk management, the importance of
proactive solutions is being emphasized. Getting into depressed people's mind is not easy, since the depressed person gets obsessed with certain issue (mainly, the pity for their selves), and becomes blind and deaf to the outer world (and treatment). It is hard for depressed person to be forward looking.
In the case of loosing a job, especially such demanding job as in Ibanking, the issue is not only loosing salary and job security. Salary comes and goes; job security, no matter how badly people would like to believe in it, has never been more real than a unicorn.
The significance of job is elevated big time in the U.S. A person is associated with it; the first question people ask each other upon acquaintance is usually, "What do you do?" or "What is your profession?"
As in portfolio theory, many psychologists recommend to balance out, by diversifying the significance between different aspects of one's life, such as friends, family, hobbies/interests, sports/health, etc.
Another point, backed by philosophy of risk management, is known as "Furu vs. Cockroach paradox." Furus are species of fish, who sophisticatedly optimizes its nature and accommodates perfectly to one particular environment. If the environment changes even slightly, the species will extinct. The cockroach, however, is much less optimized to perform in any particular environment, and uses primitive method to accommodate - it runs from wind. However, it managed to survive as a species for hundreds of thousands of years. What I want to say here, one will be amazed with the ability of people's psyche to accommodate to any environment! Loosing a particular status or way of lifestyle does not mean loosing
a status or lifestyle; it simply means adopting another status or lifestyle. Loosing friends because of loosing job means that these people were tied to your position, status, or money, but not to you as a person.
YOU ARE NOT YOUR JOB