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Mental Health

My messed-up life … now a message of life

I have always been a sensitive girl. Even in primary school, the smallest actions and words of my friends would deeply affect me. So I pushed them away before they could push me away. I often needed...

Mental Health

Twenty years on

During the 2018 World Cup, my darling wife Bernice reminded me that it has been 20 years since my struggle with clinical depression. The 1998 World Cup was in full swing then, played to the tunes of...

Real Life, Real People

The slippery slope of addiction: From pornography to prostitutes

After struggling through years of depression and anxiety and coming out stronger on the other side of it with the help of counsellors and Christian community, you’d think God was done with me....

Faith

I believed that God’s plan for me was to die

My journey with God started in 2007: A six-year-old child, eyes squeezed shut and chubby hands clasped together in prayer as I sat with my kindergarten friends around a table, reciting grace before...

Health

Exhausted from caregiving, I battled depression and suicidal thoughts

I found it hard to admit that I had been emotionally wounded yet again. I could not accept that my depression had relapsed, and here I was, reliving my darkest nightmare just four years after my...

Faith

Don’t wait until the deathbed

I wrote about my grandma’s health scare last year. Although the doctors found nothing wrong with her body, the scare took a toll on her mental health. My grandma became depressed, and her body...

Culture

Grappling with gratitude: How to spice thanks up

In a study now known as “The Gratitude Disposition“, three psychologists divided their participants into three groups with specific tasks: one group was to record only the positive...

Culture

“I never learned how to turn this exhausting pain into bliss”: The silent struggles of Kim Jonghyun

On late Monday afternoon, the lead singer of popular Korean boy band SHINee, Kim Jonghyun, 27, was found dead in his rental apartment in an upmarket corner of Seoul. From the time he sent his...

Relationships

I couldn’t move on after my break-up

One month after the passing of my mother in April 2011, I ended a year-long relationship with my boyfriend. The relationship had already been on the rocks for months. It was adding to the...