Depression: What is it?
What is depression? Is it the opposite of happiness? Depression, or Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), is one of the most widespread psychological disorders, ...
Mental Health
Depression: Debunking 4 Myths
Depression, or Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), affects 1 in 17 people in Singapore at some point in their lives. Despite its prevalence, only few seek ...
Mental Health
Riding the Roller Coaster Ride of Bipolar Disorder
Have you ever tried to ride the roller coaster? It is a thrilling ride that brings you up,… down,… then, circles you around ...
Mental Health
Communication with Terminally Ill Patients
Communication isn’t an uncommon topic to everyone. In fact, in all aspects of our lives, communication plays an important role in expressing our ...
Mental Health
Giving Voice to the Non-Verbal
Giving Voice to the Non-Verbal: Caring For Children with Autism From my previous Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) practice, I have been trained on ...
Existential Psychology: “What is the meaning of life?”
Existential Psychology: “What is the meaning of life?” “Who am I? Where do I come from? What am I going to do? Where ...
Mental Health
Growing Older, Staying Well
“Growing Older, Staying Well!”: A Write Up of a Public Talk (ft. Dr. Bharathi Vengadasalam) It’s ironic that when we were younger, when ...
Mental Health
Challenges in Malaysia’s Mental Health Industry
I am a Psychology graduate who has been working in a private Psychiatric clinic for four months now, and though my working period could ...
Mental Health
Seeing the World Differently: Autism (by Dr. Alvin Ng)
Autism, to typically developing people, is essentially a deficit in social understanding and skills, coupled with rigidity in interests and behaviour, that ranges ...
Career
PSYCHIATRY VS. PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHIATRY VS. PSYCHOLOGY: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? Most psychology programs will have been rushing to get the point across that psychiatry simply is not ...
