Mental Health

Mental Health

Tired of being tired?

Whenever I ask a friend, “How are you doing?”, I’ll most likely get the reply: “Busy lor. Tired.” We Singaporeans are a busy and tired lot, and a recent study by a UK bedding manufacturer...

Mental Health

When dance gave me anxiety, God turned things around

“Energy, more energy!” my dance coach would scream at us from the front of the dance studio, occasionally banging the table, which caused all of us to flinch and wince at the loud sound. I was a...

Mental Health

Before you start taking potshots, do you know what people might be going through?

You’re walking down a street, and a guy TOTALLY bumps into you as if he didn’t even see you there. As you pick yourself up off the floor, all manner of invective comes out of your mouth,...

Real Life, Real People

Once broken and battling depression, she discovered new meaning to life

“As a teenager, I wasn’t sure how to find my identity as a person,” confessed Jolyn Kari Ng. “At that time, it was probably through my friends, how popular I was in school and how attractive...

Mental Health

“I didn’t know how to grieve”: The girl who found purpose in her pain

“Dear Diary, It has been 3 weeks and I have been feeling down again. I really don’t think I’m going to come out of this anytime soon. Last week, I saw a rainbow for the first time… and then a...

Discipleship

What next after prayer? Isaac Ong on taking ownership as young people in Singapore

On the night of the River Valley High School tragedy, an online prayer rally was held for the nation and generation. During the meeting, Isaac Ong from the impossible413 team spoke about spiritual...

How-tos & Handles

How can we grieve well?

Every day, we will hear and witness death around us. It is normal for us to grieve, especially when our loved ones die. Yet, grief can be debilitating and incapacitating. Grief can rob one of the...

Mental Health

Struck down but not destroyed: Lessons on life from a Perepat tree

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” These words of the Apostle Paul in 2...

Mental Health

A plea to news editors: Don’t cover suicide like any other news story

There is an unwritten rule that the media in Singapore, apart from the tabloid press, has observed for many years: Not to report on suicides and suicide attempts apart from annual figures or...