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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