I saw this heartbreaking article today while looking through the news that stated that 45,000 people from 63 countries, kill themselves due to unemployment over a year. There was a few quotes that I wanted to pull out that help to characterize the sort of people who may do this and why that I found really interesting.
"Employment is tied to identity. When people lose a
sense of identity and purpose it becomes problematic for them. For
someone who is particularly vulnerable or at risk, if you add on a loss
of sense of purpose, the risk goes up."
"Men are notoriously bad at help-seeking, and their lack of self-care
and accepting and taking support from others can cost them their
lives."
These quotes sound an awful lot like a character in All Things Fall, Okonkwo. Whom we all now take the same action as these people, and it for similar reasons. Is there more we can learn from All Things Fall, and apply it today with this knowledge?
https://news.vice.com/article/unemployment-is-killing-45000-people-each-year
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