Mental health has never been a more crucial aspect of the workplace, especially since the pandemic. As such, the workplace plays a vital role in fostering and building such an environment. Just this year, Singapore was ranked the top four most overworked cities in the world, just after Dubai, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur.

Similar to being in a community, therapeutic spaces, too, have their own set of languages and terminologies. While some of them may be more clinal terms that you might come across, often describing mental health-related abbreviations or diagnoses, others are much more general and are not just limited to therapeutic spaces.

Emotions are at the heart of what it is to be human. Emotions connect us to every object, person, and event we have come across in our lives. The lack of emotion would mean that we would not be able to develop relationships and connect with others or have sympathy or empathy.

In Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), building mastery refers to doing things that are slightly difficult in nature to build an individual’s sense of achievement and competence. When we were younger, we all had a natural drive to build mastery. We would push our way through to learn to talk, walk, run, or do the things that we see older children do. We would accept that while it was not easy to pick up, we would always get back on our feet when we fell.

In every relationship, a couple will go through their fair share of ups and downs. However, when a partner is going through depression or anxiety, both partners face a new set of challenges.

At a time when cognitive, emotional, and social development is rapid, enabling children to become aware that their thoughts can influence their behaviour and emotion is one of the critical lessons we can pass on. Reframing unproductive and maladaptive thinking and the assumptions that underpin it is essential for navigating the personal and emotional challenges of growing up.