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What money worry does to mental health
Financial strain is not simply a cause of stress. It produces a specific set of effects, and in Singapore the systems that treat each half of the problem do not…
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Where to get CBT for insomnia in Singapore
Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia is the first-line treatment for chronic insomnia, it is not sleep hygiene advice, and it is available in Singapore public hospitals. What it involves and…
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Sleep and mental health: symptom, cause, or both
Poor sleep is one of the earliest signs of a mental health problem and one of the things that keeps it going. Why treating it separately is worth doing, and…
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What your employer in Singapore actually has to do about mental health
The Tripartite Advisory is guidance, not law. The Workplace Fairness Act will be law, from the end of 2027. Here is what is binding now, what is coming, and what…
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Is an employee assistance programme actually confidential?
The question that stops most people using the counselling their employer already paid for. What the employer receives, what they do not, and the two exceptions.
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Your teenager has stopped coping. What a parent in Singapore can do.
The signs that warrant action, how to open the conversation without closing it, and the specific routes available: school counsellor, GP, CHAT, REACH, 1771.
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Streaming ended. The pressure did not.
Full Subject-Based Banding replaced Express, Normal Academic and Normal Technical for the 2024 Secondary 1 cohort. What actually changed, what did not, and why parents are often reassuring their child…
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Burnout is not a diagnosis, and that changes what you should do
The World Health Organization classifies burnout as an occupational phenomenon, explicitly not a medical condition. The precise wording has practical consequences for medical leave, insurance, and what actually fixes it.
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Burnout or depression: how the two are told apart
They overlap, they can occur together, and burnout can precede a depressive episode. Three questions clinicians use to separate them, and why getting it right changes the treatment.
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Where to get help when money is what is keeping you awake
ComCare, Social Service Offices, Family Service Centres and Credit Counselling Singapore, what each actually does, and which door to use first.