by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 13, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Community, Life Issues, Loving Others, Mental Illness
I enjoy preaching. I think it’s one of my gifts. When I get invited to speak on a new subject, I relish the challenge. But not last night. I am still not sure how it happened but I found myself the main speaker on the first session of a three-day conference on the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 20, 2018 | 2018, Articles, Christian Living, Hope, Life Issues, Mental Illness
The 2018 World Cup concluded recently, and my darling wife Bernice reminded me that it has been 20 years since my struggle with clinical depression. The 1998 world cup was on. Ricky Martin was celebrating the Cup of Life. I normally enjoy watching a good game of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 1, 2018 | 2017, 2018, Articles, Life Issues, Mental Illness
I remember the onset of my clinical depression. I had just preached at the ordination service of a good friend. I was then to a join a young adults evangelistic camp. As I was driving away from the ordination service, it happened. It was as though someone turned off...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 29, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Life Issues, Mental Illness, Suffering
Recently I was talking to a girl who told me she was suffering from depression. I had just given a talk where I’d mentioned that I had struggled with depression some years ago, and she felt encouraged to share with me her own struggles. Everyone’s journey is unique...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 4, 2014 | 2014, Aging, Articles, Life Issues, Mental Illness
Dementia is an irreversible and progressive intellectual disability affecting key functions of daily life and caused by a groups of disease processes… Alzheimer’s disease accounts for two -thirds of cases, and is the best known. (Rosemary Hurtley, Insight...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 4, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Church, Community, Life Issues, Mental Illness
“1 in 10 will suffer from mental illness” The above was the headline of the November 19, 2011 edition of The Straits Times (Singapore). The article, written by Chang Ai-Lien, senior correspondent, went on to say: More than one in 10 people in Singapore...