Not many people are aware of this, but there are different forms of bipolar. Today, we’ll be looking at some of them.
Mental Illness in The Sims 4 [#Blog4MH]
For simmers everywhere, making the perfect Sim is always fun – you get to customise appearance, voice, personality, clothing, and aspirations, all of which will affect the…
DSM-5: A brief introduction [#Blog4MH]
When you get to reading about mental disorders and diagnoses, it is very likely you will run into acronyms such as DSM-5, DSM-V, DSM-IV, and DSM-IV-TR. This is a short…
Transiting into adulthood
“Workers with psychiatric disabilities have to acquire new skills while in the process of learning how to negotiate an unfamiliar public environment, having at the…
Mental illness and my mum
Leaving the ward, two things I realised I’d newly acquired were A. a hypothetical diagnosis and B. my mum’s grief/mistrust towards me. The first hit me right off…
Part II Book Club: Your Voice is All I Hear by Leah Scheier
Sometimes when I go for therapy it feels like I’m giving over control to my therapist and I leave sessions feeling extremely needy (e.g. I start…
We Are Strays: My Experiences with Chronic Emptiness
When I feel empty… I feel my face blur in and out of focus. You prop me up but I fall down. The passing of…
An open letter to self-harm
Dear Self-harm, I. hate. you. Please leave me alone. You whisper in my ear. Telling me to prove myself and more. Telling me that no one…
Games That Help Depression [#Blog4MH]
A lot of youths do not have the means to seek professional help. Should a game like SPARX, however, make itself available in Singapore, there would…