Losing a job isn't so bad for most people, but imagine if you're the breadwinner in the family with a lot of bills to pay. One could lose sleep and trigger a series of anxiety symptoms right after that makes them less functional to cope.

It depends of the country, some of them have a nice support for unemployment.

There's that Filipino mentality to avoid seeking psychiatric consult because folks tend to be in denial about their patient's condition until they start getting violent and disorganized, then they start bringing their loved one in a worse shape.

Now that I can't talk with you about cancer anymore, ehhehe what are your thoughts about seeking first regular psychotherapy first? I am a lay in the pipeline, but even through a psychotherapy treatment, the patient should try to seek a regular therapy to try to untangle some problems that the drugs will just help to keep things controlled, but they actually don't solve the problems many times.