SINGAPORE – In secondary school, Ms Sara Cher was far from a shrinking violet. She asked questions in class and was an active member of the drama club, her co-curricular activity.
When she started experiencing social anxiety and panic attacks in Secondary 3 – sometimes slipping out of lessons to hole up in the school toilets for more than an hour – people around her thought she was “faking it”, recalls Ms Cher.
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