How friends can help reduce stress, anxiety and grief – why you need a ‘vent buddy’

When Jemjem Yap lost her father in July 2020, she was beside herself. Her sense of devastation was compounded by the fact that she was in Singapore and her dad was in Iloilo, a province in the Philippines. Travel restrictions and border closures meant that Yap, who was born in the Philippines and moved to Singapore almost three years ago for work, could not travel to see her father as he lay in a bed in a hospital intensive care unit (ICU) after having a stroke. To exacerbate matters, Yap, who…

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