We asked Malaysians to share their experience with OCD with us. Join the conversation #MYlifewithOCD. Meet Sheikh Shamir a 23 year old student with a great sense of humour! : Hi Sheikh Shamir! Thanks for agreeing to talk to us. Sheikh Shamir: Hi there, no problemo : Why don’t you tell me a bit about yourself […]
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Beauty and the beast
Beauty and the beast. That’s what I think of when I think of my OCD and me. My OCD is the beast, but I’m the one trapped. I never thought I had OCD. I assumed that I just followed my mom’s footsteps since my mom is a totally clean freak. So I thought my behavior […]
There is more to me than my mental illness
My story is about acceptance; about me coming-to-term with my mental health condition. It is given. When life threw you lemon, you got beaten by it; stupefied at first. It scarred you. It left you with a lesson, and a lesson and another lesson until you got a grip and managed to turn the lemon […]
Depression is not cool. It’s an illness.
Since the age of 17, I have seen an influx of teens self-diagnosing & mistaking the difference between depression and a common human emotion – sadness. More than just often, it has become a norm for most people to use this terms wrongfully on social media. Buckle up, time for some education. Depression, defined by […]
Troubled but not defeated
Recovery. i have fallen so hard i have hit rock bottom i have been on a spiral that takes me only downwards i have been invisible, for as long as i can remember i have isolated my soul i have tried to let myself give up i have stayed six-feet underground, mentally i have been […]
I wish things had turned out differently
Trigger warning I graduated December last year and I moved out from the big city I’ve been calling home for the past 4 years. Feeling lost and not knowing what to do, I decided to go travelling hoping that I would be able to find something: a job, postgrad, new encounter with God, self discovery, […]
