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How To Overcome Job-Search Depression

If you are constantly worrying about the future, feeling fatigued, becoming socially withdrawn, ... [+] getting easily irritated, losing interest in everything and ruminating over negative thoughts, it may be time to talk with someone.

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Job hunting is hard, even during the best of times. In a tough market, it makes matters worse, and the pressure intensifies if you are in between roles. When you have been let go and haven't secured a new job after some time, it's natural that you'll start feeling anxious, afraid and depressed.

The constant rejection and roller coaster ride of ups and downs wreak havoc on your mental health and emotional well-being. Countless days of scouring job boards, submitting résumés and not hearing back can make you feel drained, discouraged and despondent.

Job-search depression sets in and, if left unattended, can lead to negative consequences. However, there are ways to push back. Try to maintain a positive mindset. Take care of your physical and emotional health, seek social support and focus on what you can control. Summon up the strength to get up when knocked down, brush yourself off and forge ahead, knowing there will still be headwinds.

The Symptoms Of Job-Search Depression

There are signs you should look out for when monitoring your mental health during this transition period. Symptoms of job-search depression include lacking motivation to apply for new roles, attending interviews thinking that it's a futile waste of time and feeling defeated and worthless because all you've been receiving are rejections or getting ghosted.

If you are constantly worrying about the future, feeling fatigued, becoming socially withdrawn, getting easily irritated, losing interest in everything and ruminating over negative thoughts, it may be time to talk with someone.

Constant Rejection Takes A Toll

Unfortunately, job-search depression is a vicious cycle. Interviewers want to hire a person who is upbeat, positive and enthusiastic. They are looking for someone likable and who comes across as a winner. The problem is that constantly dealing with rejection makes it challenging to come across as confident. It's understandable that after being ghosted so many times, it's hard to summon the strength to keep going. The hiring manager will pick up on your negative vibe and your depleted self-confidence, and since there are so many other applicants, they'll just move on to the next person.

It's hard to handle rejection when worrying about your financial situation and how you'll pay the bills, rent or mortgage. After submitting dozens of résumés and completing lengthy, annoying and glitchy applications every day without hearing back, it's nearly impossible to stay positive. It's devastating when you think you did exceptionally well in an interview and haven't heard back after several weeks. If you're stuck in the same role at work, and no one is giving you a chance, it's hard to keep making it through the day.

What You Can Do Now

You are not alone, as nearly everyone has gone through what you're dealing with. Almost anyone who has been in the workforce for any length of time has been rejected for a coveted role, lost out to an office rival for a lucrative promotion or got ghosted after a long series of interviews. Even the most successful people still deal with bouts of doubt and losing streaks.

If your actions aren't working, it's time to try something different. Refine and improve your résumé and LinkedIn profile. Consult with a career coach, mentor, résumé writer and recruiter to get their respective opinions. Ask them for their honest evaluation, constructive criticism and feedback. Process what they have to say and put into action the noted alterations.

If you haven't done so already, start cultivating a network of people who can help you find the appropriate people at the target companies you're interested in. Take a hard look at your social media footprint to ensure you haven't posted content that casts you in a poor light. Prepare and practice an elevator pitch to be ready to sell yourself in a calm, cool and collected manner. Role-play frequently asked interview questions, so you'll easily answer them. Have several questions at your ready when the interviewer asks, "Do you have any questions for me?"

Stop dwelling on the past. Shut the door on what has already happened and focus on the now. Start with a clean slate. Replace the negative feedback loop in your head with all of your great qualities, achievements and the times you've overcome obstacles. Slowly but surely, you'll regain your confidence. Then, it will only be a matter of time until you finally get that great new job.

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Could New Implants Treat Depression, Dementia And Chronic Pain?

The implants will change the way our nerve cells behave and interact

Tiny electronic implants have already transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the UK, from pacemakers that control heart conditions to cochlear implants that improve hearing.

Now a partnership of people from the health, science and business sectors in Cambridge has been awarded millions of pounds to fast-track radical new technologies that could do the same for brain health.

Innovators from across the UK will be offered the chance to test their ideas in the city. The most promising will be supported to become patient-ready treatments for people with conditions like depression, dementia and chronic pain.

One of the lead scientists in the group, Prof George Malliaras, hopes it could support his new project.

In an engineering lab at the University of Cambridge, his team is developing brain implants to treat neurological and mental health conditions which, the university estimates, will affect four in every five of us.

"Brain implants can give us a new treatment for diseases that are currently either untreatable or ineffectively managed by pharmaceuticals," Prof Malliaras explains.

"The list is ever expanding, but we're talking about brain and spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's, dementia, depression, OCD, and it's looking promising for rheumatoid arthritis and Type 1 diabetes too.

"It's a humbling project to work on, but also intensely motivating."

Professor of technology George Malliaras says brain implants have the potential to treat a vast range of conditions

The implants work by sending out small electrical impulses that change the way our neurons behave.

Neurons are nerve cells, which send messages between our body and our brain through electrical signals. They affect the way we walk, talk, eat and breathe. By changing the way they work, it is possible to eliminate pain or re-stimulate parts of the brain affected by disease or injury.

"We already know that we can use electrical impulses to diminish the tremor for some with Parkinson's disease," says Prof Malliaras, "but we want to put together teams of engineers, clinicians and people in industry from across the UK to take this sort of technology much further".

Dr Chaoqun Dong is one of the University of Cambridge engineers working on a range of new medical implants

The size of the device is one of several challenges for the team to overcome.

"The electrodes which come out of the implant need to be no bigger than a single neuron. That's five times smaller than the diameter of a human hair," says Prof Malliaras, "but if the device is too small it can struggle to communicate with the body, and it is harder for surgeons to work with, so it's a balancing act".

They must also ensure the implant can be mass produced, is cost effective and exposes the patient to as few side effects as possible.

When electricity is passed through this ribbon-like implant it can coil around a fragile nerve

Medical implants are not new to these engineers. Dr Chaoqun Dong is developing a device that can wrap around fragile nerves without damaging them.

In a glass cube, she works on a small ribbon-like structure suspended in liquid. It is made from a polymer lined with gold. When electricity is passed through it, it spontaneously coils up into a spiral. These devices would be able to monitor the impulses coming through a nerve during complex surgery, but also stimulate the nerve.

An implant self-wrapped around a nerve to monitor and apply electrical impulses

Electricity has been used to treat conditions for many years - electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for severe depression and bipolar disorder began decades ago. But Prof Malliaras believes that while implants are an invasive procedure, they could offer advantages over one-off treatments.

"Implants can constantly monitor the brain to detect abnormal activity and then correct it more gently when needed," he says.

In 2021, scientists in the US reported promising results from an early study using brain implants to treat severe depression.

The Cambridge Partnership is being funded for three years by ARIA - a government-backed science agency.

Professor Malliaras says he is confident that within that time they will have come "a long way" to making viable new treatments.

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