By Dr. Chua Sook Ning The NST Online report of Selva Kumar Subbiah addressed the social stigma against convicts and rightly affirms the civil rights of all citizens regardless of one’s past. Unfortunately, the article ends with this: “The American Supreme Court has interpreted this recidivist tendency as a mental health problem and sentences of […]
February 2017
Our mental health care is the elephant in the room.
By Dr. Chua Sook Ning IN 2015, the Health Ministry revealed that 30% of Malaysians have a mental health condition. This figure is alarming and reflects a three-fold increase since 1996. Yet we have not heard much from the Government to address this issue. The silence from the authorities is disappointing, to say the least. […]
A love poem to suicide
I am thinking about countless pills, tight ropes and sharp knives, like a soul with no road to drive, bury my whole body alive, look at me as I am broken pen drive. Dear suicide, You are among the negativity that didn’t give me hopes, but a bunch of tangled ropes and blood that […]
