When Work Consumes Your Identity
It is not uncommon in the fast-paced, competitive world that we live in for individuals to dedicate their entire lives to their career. It takes years of striving to reach the top of one’s field, often requiring a sacrifice of energy, time and personal relationships to get there. But what happens when one loses oneself in one’s work and one’s career becomes one’s whole identity? Psychologists call this phenomenon
enmeshment, which may lead to a painful identity crises when the career one has dedicated one’s life to, no longer exists.
