Do you think you’re ‘depressed’ or ‘anxious’? We speak to mental health professionals about self-diagnosis, Lifestyle News
Lifestyle To mark World Mental Health Day on Oct 10, AsiaOne shines the spotlight on mental health advocates and looks at how Singaporeans cope with mental health issues in their lives.Feeling anxious is different for everyone.Some of us might have trouble sleeping or concentrating, others might experience heart palpitations.So we head online in search of answers and realise what we're experiencing happens to match symptoms of an anxiety disorder.But where exactly is the line where anxiety, a normal human emotion, becomes an anxiety disorder, a clinical issue?Do we use words like "anxious" or "depressed" too casually as adjectives when describing our emotions?AsiaOne spoke to two mental health professionals, James Chong and Gwendolyn Tui, about individuals heading online for answers regarding their mental health, resulting in the misuse of clinical terms in daily speech and in self-diagnosis.Lifestyle...
