New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- Twenty-one. That's how many times Abhishek Ghate checked his portfolio in a single week.

His investment advisor Harsh Roongta, founder of Fee Only Investment Advisers LLP, noticed this and asked over a Zoom call why he was doing so. It turned out Ghate's colleagues were being fired one by one and he was having panic attacks, wondering when his turn would come.

"I was diagnosed with high blood pressure, had panic attacks, and had to see a psychologist and take medications to calm myself," said Ghate, talking about the time just after the pandemic in 2020 when his former employer was carrying out mass layoffs.

Ghate worked at a company in Singapore that organised MMA fights and other events. He eventually lost his j...