‘I keep feeling wanting to vomit and my heart races’: Unemployed Singaporean says job hunting triggers overwhelming anxiety
SINGAPORE: An unemployed Singaporean shared that she’s been experiencing extreme anxiety over the entire job search process.
Every time she thinks about applying for jobs, she wrote in a Reddit p...
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