If you are experiencing stress and anxiety with work, you may notice the following:

• The accomplishment never quite lands. You spend months working toward a promotion, and when you finally get it, the satisfaction fades almost immediately, then you're already thinking about what's next.

• Imposter syndrome is hard to shake. Your performance reviews are strong, but there's a persistent voice telling you that you don't know enough, you're not skilled enough, you're not visible enough. 

• You can't stop comparing yourself to others. Someone on your team is better at self-promotion. Another person has stronger technical skills. You notice all the ways you might be falling short, and it's exhausting.

• Work problems follow you home. When a project hits a snag or a client raises concerns, your mind goes into overdrive. You run through every possible scenario and you can't turn it off.

If you're Asian or Asian American, you might also experience:

• You notice when you’re the only Asian person in a room.

• Your colleagues have no problem taking credit for work, but you've been taught to keep your head down and let the work speak for itself. Except now you're realizing that approach doesn't always work.

• You feel you have to prove yourself—a thought leader, a creative mind, an engaging speaker, because otherwise, people assume you’re uninteresting.

• Or you feel the opposite—hypervisible. Like your success reflects on your entire community, and your failure would too. The pressure to represent your people well can be isolating.