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Everyday pressure

Work, school, money, sleep. These are situations, not diagnoses. Most people who find this site are here because something in ordinary life has become hard to carry, and that does not mean anything is wrong with them.

If what you are dealing with has lasted a long time, or has stopped responding to changes in your situation, the Conditions library covers the clinical picture.

  • Burnout

    Burnout

    What burnout is, what the World Health Organization actually classifies it as, how it is distinguished from depression, and why the distinction changes what you should do about it.

  • Money worry

    Money worry

    Financial strain and mental health feed each other. What help exists in Singapore for the money side, what exists for the rest, and the gap between the two that nobody…

  • School and exam pressure

    School and exam pressure

    What support actually exists inside Singapore schools, where to go outside them, what changed when streaming ended, and what a parent can do when a teenager stops coping.

  • Sleep

    Sleep

    Sleep is both a symptom and a driver of poor mental health. Where insomnia is assessed and treated in Singapore, what cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia is, and which public…

  • Stress at work

    Stress at work

    What Singapore employers are and are not obliged to do, what you can formally ask for, how an employee assistance programme actually works, and what to do when the job…