Tag: stigma
Netizens receive the wrong message from latest NasDaily Covid-19 video
Singapore - In his latest video, vlogger Nuseir Yassin featured the story of how Covid-19 patients from Grace Assembly of God Singapore (GAOG) recovered...
Man in N95 mask distances himself from nurse waiting for the same lift –...
SINGAPORE — On Thursday (Feb 18), Facebook group All Singapore Stuff shared a reader's contribution, a sad story of the discrimination in the midst of...
Yet another hurdle: Jobs
Our series on schizophrenia: Part 6
If you have mental illness, can you go to a university? Get a non-menial job?
Psychiatrist Dr Ang Yong Guan...
Series on sczhiophrenia 5: A mother’s painful journey
Her son has schizophrenia. She has polio. That has not stopped Elsie Tan from declaring: “I think we are quite a happy family.”
But she...
Series on schizophrenia 4: What happens in the military
Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said in Parliament yesterday that NS men with mental health disorders are monitored during their two-year stint.
If there are...
Series on schizophrenia Part 3: A doctor’s diagnosis and his mission
“Doctor, you have educated me. You bothered to explain my mental illness to me, that it is just a biochemical imbalance. You told me...
Series on schizophrenia 2: He saved his wife, but not his son
Part 2 of our series on schizophrenia...
It was not only his son, NS man Ganesh Pillay, who suffered from schizophrenia. Magendran Reganathan’s wife is...
Series on schizophrenia 1: The death that could have been avoided
Part 1 of our series on schizophrenia kicks off with a father’s pain
How do you move on from a son lost? Magindren Reganathan...