"For a middle-aged person, losing one's job is just as traumatic as a car accident, falling ill, the death of a spouse or a child running away from home. It's an event beyond their control which suddenly turns their life upside-down." Chiu Chia-li, director of the Hwo Chyuan Pastoral Counseling Center, describes this kind of occurrence as a "non-normative event."
「中年失業，一如發生車禍、病變、喪偶、子女逃家等，是一種外力造成的、突然失控的人生斷裂，會讓生活一下子發生天崩地裂的翻轉，」活泉身心靈整合中心主任邱加利以「非常模事件」來形容。