He is suffering a lot of psychological trauma that he doesn't know he is going through.

The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.

 “So how’d you do it? How did you get to where you aren’t scared all the freaking time?”
Erin’s smile drooped a little, tired with the effort.
 “You’re making an assumption,” she said. “Just hang in there. It’ll get easier.”
 “But not better,” Alexander said.
 “But not better.

We all want to be normal. Life, even normal life, is arduous, demanding, and ultimately threatening. We all have to deal with it, and none of us really knows how. We are all traumatized by life, by its unpredictability, its randomness, its lack of regard for our feelings and the losses it brings. Each in our own way, we suffer.

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.