That's right on Ms. Doody. We went out to dinner recently with some old friends and it was heartbreaking to be in the presence of this wonderful man, who was wrongfully fired from his job....a job he loved and was good at. A job he thought he would have until he retired.

I can't go into a lot of detail because it was fairly high profile but my point is our friend is severely depressed and is grieving the loss of this job as you would grieve the loss of anyone or thing you loved.

His employer settled out of court with him...and explained that it was "like trying to get the toothpaste back in the tube...you can't..you want to but you can't. And it took on a "life" of its' own.

Our friend can't understand why he has no energy...blames it on the heart attack he had in the hours followng his firing but it isn't. It's depression.
I urged him to go to grief counseling but ......he is a macho man...