

I dont know the article, but looking for work generally helps me when im absolutely fucking done with a job.
Yes, its more work, but it makes all the “huge and terrible” problems of your main job seem smaller, isolated, even stupid. They matter less because you dont have to depend on that job anymore, so you actually do get better mentally.
Then, if the job search is good or the second job is enough, quit that first fucker and be totally done with all the stress.
Sounds like someone separated his brain from his body to either sell to medical science, a university, or the army, and instead fucked it up.
Maybe legal, probably not. Its common in the US, and deeply fucked up.