I have to say, I agree with Belle here. This is great advice if you're facing financial stress, but I don't think it applies to very extreme forms of life crisis. There are forms of extreme life event, as Belle remarked, where the brain gets trapped in a state of crisis which can last for months, if not years.
I also recommend that you moderate your language when it comes to the kind of reactions that some people take to extreme life stress. It may well not be an effective choice to use drugs or alcohol to deal with a crisis situation but you're basically telling any readers who've done that they're "stupid". That might well be alienating to people who have struggled with extreme life events.
You seem to have focused only on marriage and career related life events. A different, and gentler approach might be needed for crises such as rape, burglary, loss of a parent or child, attack, major life threats (being in a violent car crash, for example). These really, on the grand scale of things, are in a different league to losing a job.
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