“Why are you crying again? When is this crying going to stop?” Having had words like that spoken to me before, I thought that I was at fault every time I cried. As a result, I disliked...
I was the studious one in my family. I was the one that my parents would boast about due to my good results, the one that my cousins were constantly compared to, the one who enjoyed studying and...
“I felt unloved, unwanted and unimportant.” That’s how Ashley Tan summed up the internal struggle she faced growing up as an adopted person. Now 20, Ashley was adopted as an infant in...
My name is Gabriel. I am 20 years old and throughout my life, I have had cancer three times. I had my first encounter with cancer in 2009. I was only five years old then. It started with just...
My heart breaks whenever I read news of bullying cases, it is something that seems to be increasingly reported these days. As someone who’s been on the receiving end of being bullied and...
23-year-old Darren Lim grew up as an introverted and reserved individual who shied away from speaking in front of large crowds. Before becoming a Christian in secondary school, Darren would never...
CNA recently released an article which contained some eye-opening findings from a study done by the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), establishing a strong link between excessive social media use and...
TW: Bullying, fat-shaming and suicide ideation are mentioned in this article When I was a little girl, I was always cheerful and extroverted. I loved making friends and enjoyed going to school. I was...
I was three years old when I lost a kidney. From a young age, I had been having regular fevers. My mother kept bringing me to the general practitioner, but there was no other sign from my body that...