Not everything is a mental health issue By Anonymous I am a 26years old woman who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder/ schizophrenia(different doctors gave different diagnosis) 4 years back. Currently,I am taking 5mg Aripiprazole to treat my condition and I have been doing good for 3 years as well been taking the same medication for […]
Working with depression and anxiety By Anonymous I am a twenty-something female who recovered from depression just a few years earlier during my pursuit of a PhD. I had anxiety and mild depression and took minimal dose of medication for two months before trying out Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which worked better for me. I […]
The Missing Piece By Wan Muhamad Kamarul Izzat bin Wan Mustafa Hit with a sudden wave of gloominess again. I feel sort of empty. Like I am missing something. Something that was once dear to me. Something that I longed for but unable to recall what it is. Like some crucial piece of a jigsaw […]
He seems to be perfectly fine, he’s “happy”, the quote of my life. Behind the social scene when I’m on my own, the demons come to play. The only friend that I had since the age of five were depression and anxiety. Coming from a well to do family, life seems easy and perfect as […]
To most people, eating is the easiest thing in the world. But for an anorexic, someone whose life has for a long time been centred on extreme and rigid control over food, you could say that there is some degree of anxiety that comes with it. Why is this so? To understand this, one must […]
Let us first realise that mental health is very real. However, although mental health is very real – it may not necessarily always be obvious. We now start to see the subtle signs he’s left behind. The tattoo of a black dog on his left ribcage (a symbolism first introduced by Winston Churchill to describe […]
