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Enmeshment: One Becomes The Job

Common signs of enmeshment, when the boundaries between personal life and work are fuzzy, are:

When the job is eating up all their time, with none left for hobbies or family.
When the job is the only thing in the mind, and the only thing to discuss in any conversation.
When the job becomes a person’s only definition.

When our career starts to define our own value, we have enabled our success and failure to directly affect our self-worth, something which can have detrimental effects on our identity.

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Why we define ourselves by our jobs

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