| If you are made redundant after a long time, or even | | | | private counsellors around: but you may not have the |
| after you are 40, then you can feel as if life is | | | | money to spend on counsellors, if you have just been |
| effectively over and you have been thrown onto the | | | | made redundant, so it may be worth talking to your |
| employment scrap heap. It is easy to start thinking that | | | | GP. |
| nobody wants you, nobody values the skills and | | | | A counsellor can help you to thrash out your feelings, |
| experience that you have and it is difficult to accept | | | | can help you retain or even regain a sense of self |
| how things are. | | | | esteem and they can help you to plan for the future |
| Or you may be young, having enjoyed a high flying | | | | and hopefully avoid you sinking into depression. |
| career, commanded respect, driven the Porsche and | | | | If you can't access counselling, or just do not want to, |
| now, you are queuing up at the Job centre. How do | | | | then what you should do is talk to a good friend, |
| people cope? | | | | whose advice you value, to help you have a sense of |
| Well most people recognise that it is a very difficult | | | | balance and retain the capacity to see that this is bad, |
| time and for some people the only answer is to | | | | but it is not the end of the world. |
| receive counselling, so that they can talk through their | | | | But there is no longer any sense of shame in talking to |
| emotions, feelings and ideas with a trained professional | | | | a counsellor or even a psychotherapist, to gain some |
| who will be well equipped to assist them. | | | | kind of insight into what emotions and feelings are |
| Counselling is often available from your GP, or you | | | | really going on in your mind and how you can deal with |
| may be able to talk to someone at your local MIND or | | | | them and move forwards. |
| a similar mental health charity, or there are plenty of | | | | |