Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.

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• Mika Brzezinski:

  I remember an interview so terrible with CNN's Jon Klein, I nearly blurted out, 'Forget it, I am a

• Mika Brzezinski:

  I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and

• Mika Brzezinski:

  I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the set of

• Mika Brzezinski:

  After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining

• Mika Brzezinski:

  I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up b

• Mika Brzezinski:

  I desperately miss my girls when I am working, and I often feel guilty, but also feel the journey I

• Mika Brzezinski:

  For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageabl

• Mika Brzezinski:

  I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challen

• Mika Brzezinski:

  The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my fam

• Mika Brzezinski:

  I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.