Mental Health

Mental Health

Learning to love myself when others called me fat

When I was studying in China, there were many occasions when sales assistants would just ignore me whenever I walked into shops or boutiques around my university. When they did take notice of me,...

Discipleship

What are you hiding from God?

It’s strange looking back and realising just how much my Christian life was driven by my struggle with pornography. I can’t remember the number of times I would masturbate on a Saturday night,...

Mental Health

How can the Church journey alongside people struggling with mental illness?

“I remember that evening when my depression actually emerged in a very conscious way,” said Dr Tan Soo Inn, chairman of Graceworks, at The Church and Mental Wholeness Conference last week. He...

Mental Health

What do I say to someone with suicidal thoughts?

When coming into contact with someone at risk, the last thing you’d want is for that person to feel like we’re pushing them away. But what if, unknowingly, our words or actions end up making a...

Sermons

What mental illness is not: The raw, disturbing stories from the ones who’ve suffered

“I want to start with an unapology,” Pastor Adrian Ow of Yio Chu Kang Chapel (YCKC) told the 300-plus strong audience at The Church and Mental Wholeness Conference last Saturday. “If...

Mental Health

Struggling with depression since seminary, I’ve been sidelined so many times

On September 10, the world celebrated World Suicide Prevention Day. Around the same time last year, the world was hit with the news of a pastor who took his own life. This year, it happened again...

Mental Health

There are more like Jarrid: Why I’m breaking the silence at 30

In the evening glow of September 9, 2019, Julianne Wilson captured her husband, Jarrid, tossing their younger son in the air – to much exhilaration and giggles – as they waited for their elder...

Mental Health

Pastors are people too

Yet another pastor has left us by suicide. Yet another wife has lost the love of her life; another two boys, their loving and dedicated father. News reports of young pastors committing suicide seems...

Mental Health

After years of eating disorders, I struggled to conceive my first child

I didn’t struggle with my body through most of my younger years. As a badminton player who represented my school, I was very muscular, especially in my lower limbs, from the sheer amount of...