Mental Health

Mental Health

I wanted to end it all: Ah Boys to Men actor Charlie Goh

I was down with dengue fever in 2016. It was a painful time as I was hospitalised for 7 days.  I was suffering, so I didn’t care and just took it out on everybody else. I can’t remember exactly...

Mental Health

Have you been crying?

I must confess something. I used to think that Jesus was very strange when I read that He wept upon seeing family and friends weeping over Lazarus’ death. You see, Jesus knew He was going to...

Mental Health

Anxious and depressed, I overdosed on drugs and fell unconscious for 2 days

I know the exact moment I was marked by Christ. It happened three years ago, when I was serving in disaster relief in Japan. God spoke 1 Corinthians 9:22 over my life – I am to be “all things...

Mental Health

I didn’t dare to let myself feel beautiful

All women desire to feel beautiful. Every day, we see hundreds of advertisements for skincare, make-up, clothes and slimming treatments. Even the Bible celebrates a woman’s beauty in passages such...

Real Life, Real People

Women hooked on porn: Not just a men’s problem

“That’s the day I gave up.” She had been waiting for someone to find out about her habit of watching pornography, so that she could get help. She just needed someone to ask her:...

Mental Health

Pwned by porn: This is how it messes with your mind

It only takes half a second for porn to reach our brain. In comparison, alcohol takes 6 minutes while heroin takes 10-20 seconds. These figures were shared at Set Free 2019, a national summit for...

Surveys & Reports

Singapore, we have a porn problem

“If you marry someone who watches pornography, you can kiss your intimacy goodbye. Because there’s not a woman in Singapore that can compete with porn.” This sobering statement was...

Worldview

Penal Code review: What are the implications if attempting suicide is no longer a crime in Singapore?

For every 100,000 people in Singapore, around 8 are lost to suicide every year. Although there was a slight dip in the total number of suicides reported in 2017, the number of seniors taking their...

Mental Health

He is fighting for you

In the past, my whole life was filled with insecurities and inadequacies. Whenever negative thoughts overwhelmed me, I wouldn’t know what to do other than cry my lungs out. A day came when...