What effects does long term unemployment have on an idividual, family and social/community?
I don’t know how long you mean by “long term” but I was unemployed for just under a year, (I know it doesn’t sound long, but my god it felt like decades!). Basically I lost any confidence I had. My self worth was non-existent, I had no social life whatsoever, I looked like ‘death warmed up’ because I couldn’t be bothered looking after myself, I had no self esteem, so wouldn’t go out and try to meet new people. People in a community (if they don’t know the whole story of a person), tend to frown upon unemployment, and immediately assume that a person is too lazy to get a job, but that just isn’t the case…..it’s tough going out there. People won’t hire people without experience, and they won’t provide experience for people gain it. I don’t have a family, but I can imagine it would destroy your families perception of you, plus make it very difficult to give them what they want and need, you probably wouldn’t be able to ‘engage’ with them as you normally would because your self esteem wo
