15 years ago, depressive symptoms led to T getting her first diagnosis of mental illness. 5 years after that, after having a hypomanic episode, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. We reached out to find out what it’s like to be in her shoes, and what a regular person can do to help.
21 years ago, Oliver Chong developed the symptoms of schizophrenia. He began having symptoms once every 3-4 days, then once a month, once every 3-4 months, once every year, till finally years would go by before he developed further symptoms. We had a chat with him about his journey with schizophrenia.
When Cho Jun Ming was 19, his 54-year-old father was diagnosed with heart issues. Because his father was a kidney dialysis patient and could not undergo operations, he was sent to the ICU where he passed on just 2 months later. We asked Jun Ming how he coped with losing his dad before age 20, and learned from him all the things he wished he had done with his father when he had the chance.
In June this year, we interviewed a protester from Hong Kong after she’d been caught in the most violent protest of that time, when tear gas and rubber bullets had been unleashed on civilians by the police. Since then, the violence in Hong Kong has escalated, with the police using live ammunition and water cannons on protesters, and the protesters in turn barricading streets, disabling public transportation and setting buildings on fire. We checked in on her to see how she’s doing.
At age 36, Derek Seong found out his mother had early-stage breast cancer. Barely two months later, she was gone, but not because of the cancer. We had a chat with the now 39-year-old, still grieving Artistic Director to find out what went wrong with his mother’s treatment process and how he managed to make it through those difficult days.
At 51 years of age, Yen-Lu Chow was an entrepreneur and an angel investor… then he lost his son to suicide. Now 61 and on an ongoing journey to heal himself and the world, this social innovator, philanthropist, advisor, mentor, and seeker of Truth shares with LUCK-IT memories of his son, Lawrance, and all the lessons he’s gleaned from grief, suffering, re-calibrating and recovery.
Juliana had a rash at age 12, for which she was prescribed topical steroids. Over the next eight years, plagued by persistent skin problems, she persisted with using topical steroids all over her body until, when aged 21, she decided to stop. Within a week or two, her skin became completely red and for the next four years after, she was ‘burning’, oozing and shedding from head to toe, to the extent she had to take a year off school. Four years after her ordeal with what the Internet terms ‘Topical Steroid Withdrawal’, Juliana tells LUCK-IT everything she’s learned from the experience and offers coping tips to others going through the same.
At 21 years of age, when just a student in polytechnic, Jasmine Chen received an unexpected call that changed her life forever. Her mum had passed away. Abruptly too. Nine years later, she shares her story of getting through grief at a young age and tells us how it honestly feels to have to continue on without a mum in the years afterward.
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