There are seasons when life simply asks too much of us at once — work, family, money, health, loss — and the usual ways of coping stop being enough. If you are in such a season, the question is rarely…
When I began studying counselling more than a decade ago, mental health was barely spoken about in Malaysia. Today, ministers discuss it openly, universities cannot train counsellors fast enough, and young people talk about therapy the way earlier generations talked…
Depression lies. That is the first thing I want you to know. It tells you that you have always felt this way and always will; that you are a burden; that nothing helps. These are symptoms, not truths — the…
Perhaps you have taken one of those online quizzes at two in the morning — ten questions, a score, and a verdict about your mind. If the result frightened you, take a breath: a questionnaire is a torchlight, not a…
In the art of Kintsugi, a broken bowl is not repaired in secret. Someone sits with the pieces, holds them patiently, and joins them with gold. I think about that image often in my work, because it is a picture…
Not everyone lives ten minutes from a counselling room. Some of my clients are in Sabah and Sarawak, some are Malaysians working abroad, some are parents who cannot leave the house easily, and some simply feel safer talking from their…
Talking about mental health is still not easy in Malaysia. Many of us grew up learning to be strong, to keep family matters private, and to carry difficulties quietly. So when sleep becomes difficult, when worry will not switch off,…