sometimes the best one can do is to step away
I think that many people who suffered some form of oppression before will feel an extra sense of responsibility towards working for justice, because there is both a sensitivity and projection of…
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on coping with emotional dysregulation
I realised that I have problems regulating stress and my emotions, only sometime in the last couple of years. This reminds me of the time when I told an ex-colleague I may…
on coping with life
Last week there was a very lucid moment when I realised my physical depression had been lifted off, and I got momentarily confused. When I travel I can’t exercise or be on…
the center cannot hold
I finished reading “The center cannot hold” in three consecutive settings. It is an memoir written by a conventionally successful professor on her journey struggling with schizophrenia. I guess it says a…
ruminating thoughts on inequality, mental illness and what it means to be human
Some days I browse the local subreddit, and it is saddening how lost, anxious and depressed youths get when they struggle with their grades. The stories told by Teo You Yenn in…
2019: to want and need less
why I suffer and how can I live in a way that can do as little harm
Running as an experiment to reduce anxiety and facilitate healing
the relationship between running and the stress response
The connections between health, conflict avoidance and trauma
how childhood trauma can affect our physical health
Yayoi Kusama, mental illness and embracing weirdness
Is some sort of extreme isolation necessary to connect deeply?
A gift of stories
sometimes we need someone to gift us a story