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> being laid off will change you at a psychological level

it certainly can do, but it's also fine if it doesn't

when I was laid off, some family members simply refused to believe that it hadn't had a profound negative effect on how I viewed myself. Dealing with that disbelief was by far the most difficult part of the process

I felt absolutely fine, because at the time I had no emotional investment in my job or career