Fired ! [Gedumpt !]

Crisis.

Recession. 

Unemployment.

To be fired has serious impacts in someone's life. According to psychologists it can be compared to the impact of losing a dear one, sickness, prison penalty but also the stress of a marriage or pregnancy. 

What should you say to a friend /partner/relative that has been fired ?

"I had already thought it would happen."

"When are you going to look for something ?"

"It is difficult to find something now, with all this crisis..."

"Oh, that company was not worthwhile anyway."

"And what do you intend to do now ?"

All the options above are wrong according to psychologist Gertruud Bolhuis in the magazine Intermediair . You should think together with your friend (or partner or relative). Ask things such as: "In which sense does this affect you ?" or "Do you see positive aspects in this fact ?. Try to be a coach !