Mental Health

Mental Health

It’s okay to wrestle with pain

Several years ago, I found myself lying in pain on the hospital bed, recuperating from a slipped disc. My former cell group leader was about to pray for me – but he said something which I did not...

Mental Health

When it looks like world’s end, the best defence is taking heart

It’s been every kind of storm. A biomedical storm. A media storm. Now even a supermarket storm. But in the eye of the global frenzy stirred up by COVID-19, I’ve recently found myself...

Mental Health

Ask for help? I’d rather suffer silently

I’ve always had trouble identifying and vocalising my needs. From a young age, whenever I needed something, I’d always feel too paiseh (embarrased) to ask for help as I didn’t want...

Mental Health

2020, a time to begin again

Monday, December 30, 2019. The 9pm overcast night sky is cool, hinting the possibility of showers in the evening ahead. There is a somberness in the air around me. Church Street’s pavements are...

Christmas

It’s the most… awful time of the year?

Seasonal depression, also known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD), is real. It’s the most wonderful time of the year There’ll be much mistletoeing And hearts will be glowing When loved...

Discipleship

Supernatural encounters: The battle for my soul

It’s strange, but whenever I had supernatural encounters, they would come at a pivotal point in my journey with God. I will never forget the night I accepted Christ on 23 December 2008. I woke...

Personalities

Enjoy the Process: Krysta Joy on finding purpose, good tunes and redemption

Winner of 2017’s edition of the Noise Music Mentorship Programme, singer-songwriter Krysta Joy released her debut album, Enjoy the Process, in August 2019. We have a chat with the Burning Hearts...

Friendship

He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother

Bruce and I have been close friends for over a decade. My journey with Bruce’s struggle with depression and anxiety started around 2010. We had just completed our National Service and came to a...

Sermons

Overcoming depression: Will I ever be okay?

In Singapore, 1 in 7 people have suffered from a mental disorder in their lifetime. This is an increase compared to the 1 in 8 ratio recorded by a landmark study six years earlier.  Most of these...