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by uusjio | October 16, 2007 at 09:59 pm
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Depression is a physiological disease of the brain, but a person`s individual circumstances can affect its frequency and severity. Both drugs and counseling can help.SAMHSA used data from the National Survey of Drug Use, which involved interviews of more than 60,000 people. The SAMSHA depression survey focused on workers aged 18 to 64.
"While rates of depression were higher among the unemployed and part-time workers, 52.4 percent of the adults who reported past-year depression were employed full-time. Full-time workers make up more than half of the adult population," the report reads.
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at 15:15 on September 1st, 2008
I recently got depressed when my last company tanked, 132 people got layed off. Now Im finding it hard to fit in at the new company, I kinda got a new job too soon, I should have looked for a better job but I can't afford to look as now I've lost my unemployment insurance, and I can't afford to pay healthcare if unemployed. Those two things alone mean I would take a $3000 a month hit if I took time to look for a new job. Even if I found a new job, I dont have enough vacation to go to an interview!
Worse still I lost 7 weeks vacation when my old company tanked, and Im stuck in the new job where it will take me 2 years full time work to get 7 weeks vacation back.
Ive realised that my time is important to me, I worked to hard in my last job and I miss my 2 kids at work. The worse thing is that people in the new job work 9-10hr days get paid for 8hrs and never leave their desks even for lunch. Its crazy. Im begining to think that America has lost the plot, is it really worth working 50hr weeks but because your "salary" you only get paid for 40hr weeks...earning only 2-3 weeks vacation a year, when if your company goes belly up that earned vacation isnt even protected?
I really believe that working to hard during the best/early years of your life is detrimental, hard work doesnt always pay off. I need time with my kids in a 9/80 or 8/80 job. I need to spend time with my family before I waste my life away working and getting no-where!
at 16:25 on September 26th, 2008
That makes a lot of sense to me! I believe that people who work too much don't get any benefit out of it and just end up working themselves to the bone for no reason, and then like you said, getting laid off with no warning.