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5 Expert-Approved Tips On Raising
Healthy, Emotionally Resilient Kids
How can we raise our children to be independent and adaptable in this tough world? As parents, we tend to constantly ask ourselves: “Am I doing the right thing?” This is a question we ask all the time — when we are deciding between baby-led weaning and spoon-feeding, whether to send our babies to infant care, how much screen time is appropriate, how to talk about consent in relationships — the mental load is endless.
09 October 2023 / Singapore Women’s Weekly
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Can You Ever Truly Be Friends
With Your Child?
“During most of the trouble I had gotten myself into as a teenager, I would never turn to my parents. This bothered me a lot when I had my daughter. I need her to think of me first if ever she was in trouble, and that she knows she can tell me anything – as a toddler, teenager, and now a grown woman,” says Jane P.
13 Sep 2023 / Singapore Women’s Weekly
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Tackling Mood Disorders (Bipolar Disorder):
Guest Article by Dr Tay Kaihong
Mood disorders, such as bipolar disorder, are generally underreported due to the stigma behind mental health conditions. This leads to delayed access to treatment options and greater awareness is needed.
24 Aug 2023 / Private Space Medical
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Is Trauma Stored in the Body?
An Evidence-Based Enquiry
Where does trauma hide? Is it only a mental phenomenon, or can it insidiously slip into the very tissues of our bodies? This article delves into the intriguing evidence-based enquiry on whether trauma is stored in the body.
08 Aug 2023 / Private Space Medical
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World Sleep Day 2023: Help, I Can't Sleep!
Dr Ashwin Chee (Psychiatrist)
Have you been feeling restless, anxious, or experiencing mood swings lately? Poor sleep quality could be the reason why. Watch this video to learn about how sleep affects mental health, identify sleep disorders, its treatment options, as well as tips on how to attain a good quality of sleep.
17 March 2023 / Medical Channel Asia
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Finding Balance in a Stressful World:
Insights from a Psychiatrist and Pharmacist
Life is full of stress – be it in work, home, or in interpersonal relationships, we all experience some form of stress in our lives. How we deal with our life stressors, then, makes all the difference. Dr Tay Kai Hong, Psychiatrist at Private Space Medical, and Joy Chong, Pharmacist of Watsons, came together to talk about just that.
03 March 2023 / Medical Channel Asia
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How Your Inner Child Could Be Keeping
You From Parenting Effectively
Your testy reactions towards the kids may be coming from the past where your own childhood needs weren’t met. If you are active on social media, chances are you have been fed a deluge of parenting slash self-help memes—and a good chunk of them would have called up your own childhood experience.
15 November 2022 / Private Space Medical
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Spending Evenings Meaningfully
Are you thinking of getting into the “5 to 9” trend from TikTok? Our senior psychologist, Justine Xue, shares her opinion on having a lot of activities after work with our local Chinese newspaper
11 November 2022 / Zao Bao News
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Adults with ADHD: What Happens as They Age?
Forgetfulness, distractibility, and impulsivity are common symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). As an older adult with ADHD, how will these traits manifest? We find out from Dr. Tay Kai Hong, Consultant Psychiatrist at Private Space Medical, Farrer Park Medical Centre.
03 Nov 2022 / Farrer Park Hospital
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Invite Mindfulness into Your Everyday
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8-week empirically-supported programme that offers
secular mindfulness training. Developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn in the late 1970s, MBSR uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness
and exploration of patterns of behaviours, thinking, feeling and action. Through non-judgmental acceptance and curious investigation of the present experience, the programme teaches mindfulness
meditation skills as a way to develop a different relationship to stress, and to live each moment of our
lives as fully as possible.
20 Oct 2022 (7 – 8 pm) / Private Space Medical
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Women with ADHD: Zoned Out and Lost
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has long been thought of as a condition affecting males. More females are being diagnosed as our understanding of the condition deepens. We find out more from Dr. Tay Kai Hong, our psychiatrist.
20 Sep 2022 / Farrer Park Hospital
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Coping with ADHD as an Adult
Mention ADHD and most of us think of hyperactive children. However, did you know that adults can also have this condition? And that it’s possible to only know you have it later on in your life?
26 Aug 2022 / Silver Streak Website for Singaporean Seniors
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Why is ADHD Often Undiagnosed in Women?
Adult women have struggled with ADHD for years and can find it hard to put a name to the condition. Mention the term ADHD and what comes to mind is usually a picture of a hyperactive boy. If that’s where your mind takes you when you think of ADHD, you’re not alone. Unfortunately, this perception means many women with the condition go through most of their lives without being diagnosed. And this is happening in Singapore too.
16 Aug 2022 / Her World Singapore
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Adult ADHD
In this video, our Psychiatrist Dr. Tay Kai Hong answers the question: What happens when you are diagnosed with adult ADHD?
4 Jun 2022 / Farrer Park Hospital
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Rest, Don't just sleep on it
Physical and mental rest is essential, but people also need
psychological rest and a break from stressors to be rejuvenated.
psychological rest and a break from stressors to be rejuvenated.
15 December 2021 / The Straits Times
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Mind Matters: Five tips to manage exam
stress during the COVID–19 pandemic
Have you got exams coming up? In a collaboration with the National Youth Council and Youthopia, Dr Tay Kai Hong shares 5 tips you can use to cope with academic and exam stress during the pandemic.
8 October 2021 / National Youth Council
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How to beat WFH burnout
Ever wondered why you are even more stressed and tired when working from home? WFH can present some significant and unique challenges. SKH Psychiatrist, Dr Tay Kai Hong shares some possible reasons why this happens and how you can deal with it.
Utilise these helpful tips to reduce your work-associated stress and set yourself up to effectively work from home.
2 July 2021 / Sengkang General Hospital
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Conversations with Private Space Self–Advocacy
“Conversations” by Private Space is a platform for dialogue among mental health professionals and advocates in Singapore. It was conceptualised by Dr Victor Kwok and Dr Tay Kai Hong, who are psychiatrists and co-founders of Private Space Medical. 2022 is a pivotal year because the pandemic has brought greater awareness and crystallised the importance of mental well-being. How can we be better equipped for the future?
6 June 2021 / The Gym Studio
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Health Matters – Double Depression
Have you heard of the term “double depression”? Dr Tay Kai Hong speaks on the radio about what is double depression, its significance and implications.
9 Sep 2020 / Radio 938 Health Matters
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Musings of a Sleep Doctor
睡眠科医生的沉思
Sleepless? Sleep on this cure for insomnia
It’s is estimated that 15% of Singaporeans suffer from insomnia. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy does not have the immediate effect of sleep medication or the cool factor of devices designed to promote sleep, but it has been proven to be effective to combat insomnia. In this Straits Times article, Psychiatrist Dr Tay Kai Hong and Psychologist Mark Rozario shares their experience on sleep health and insomnia in Singapore.
7 Oct 2019 / The Straits Times
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盛港医院聘“过来人”
助病患走出心理低潮
盛港综合医院成为本地首家聘有全职朋辈支援专家的综 合医院。该医院的心理医学部门主任郭家富顾问医生 说，朋辈支援专家可以成为医生与病人之间的桥梁，因 为他们也曾是患者，病人会更信任他们。
16 September 2019 / Zao Bao News
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看护压力大应求心理治疗
看护患病家人压力大，看护者在心力交瘁的情况下可能患上抑郁症。
盛港综合医院精神病学顾问医生郑凯鸿受访解释，
8 Sep 2019 / Zao Bao News
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Beyond the Label: Learn more about OCD
OCD is one of the top three mental health conditions in Singapore, according to the Singapore Mental Health Study 2016. Featuring Dr Tay Kai Hong and Psychologist Ms Siew Choo Ting, watch this video to learn more about OCD and how you can support someone on their road to recovery.
16 Jun 2019 / National Council of Social Services
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孩子挑食或患新摄食障碍
早发现易治疗
如果你只能吃某种颜色、味道或口感的食物，你可能患上了一种新的进食障碍，名为“回避、限制性摄食障碍”。
31 March 2019 / Channel 8 News, Mediacorp
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Mental Health Education Begins
at Home, Zao Bao
让孩子从小认识心理健康
备受心理健康问题困扰的年轻人有增无减，社媒普及或使情况变本加厉。盛港综合医院精神病学副顾问医生郑凯鸿，以及心理卫生学院成长阶段精神科部两名资深医疗社工受访解释心理健康教育的重要，希望家长身教言教并重，让孩子从小认识心理健康。
家长都知道必须从小教导孩子基本卫生，但同样重要的心理卫生，却被许多人忽略。
28 Aug 2018 / Zao Bao News
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中年危机不难克服
人到中年，是否一定会面临中年危机？
中年危机到底是什么？如何化解？
盛康保健精神病学部门主任及顾问医生郭家富接受联合早报访问时希望大家别过于担心；中年危机其实并不普遍，应对方法也不难。
5 June 2018 / Zao Bao News
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Overeating versus uncontrollable
overeating
Overeating does not mean you’re suffering from binge eating disorder. The main difference between the two is whether or not there is a loss of control, said Dr Victor Kwok, head and consultant at Sengkang Health’s Department of Psychiatry.
24 April 2017 / TNP, Singapore
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Panic disorders: What do you
know about them?
We’ve got an expert to spread awareness and explain one of
the most common mental health issues in Singapore today.
22 February 2017 / Marie France Asia, Singapore
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Panic attack or heart attack?
Symptoms are quite alike, but a panic attack makes you feel
like you are going out of control
like you are going out of control
21 February 2017 / The Straits Times
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Not hungry, but can't stop gobbling
Those with binge-eating disorder cannot control their food intake
31 January 2017 / The Straits Times
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Family bonds, whether weak or
strong, keep people happy
Yet another Chinese New Year with family, yet more joyful
memories to be created. But there are some who hate this time
of the year.
memories to be created. But there are some who hate this time
of the year.
24 January 2017 / The Straits Times
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Is Healthy Eating Making You
Sick?
Did you know that your obsession with eating clean could actually be a dangerous eating disorder called orthorexia?
29 December 2016 / Her World
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Is The Holiday Season Tough For
You?
Not everyone has a happy festive season. If you’re going through
financial or mental health issues, here are some tips
on how to get through the holidays unscathed
financial or mental health issues, here are some tips
on how to get through the holidays unscathed
22 December 2016 / Her World
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We Can't Even
Do the words “don’t worry” feel impossible? You’re not alone. Dealing with the demands of everyday life has left millennials more confused, overwhelmed and stressed out than any other generation.
November 2016 / Cleo Magazine
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Food Swingers
Between #eatclean and #foodgasm, #carbfree and #fatdieme, it’s time that we come clean with ourselves – does anyone know what to eat anymore?
August 2016 / Cleo Magazine
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半夜醒来 很难再入睡!
Bowel trouble could be all in the mind
Experts are linking irritable bowel syndrome with psychological disorders but needing help for mental issues is often perceived as a stigma by patients
25 April 2013 / The Straits Times
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Mental Health Tips for Social Media Use
Dr Victor Kwok, Senior Consultant and Head of Department of Psychiatry at Sengkang General Hospital (SKH), shares tips for healthy social media use.
HealthXchange, SingHealth
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Anxiety and Depression: When to Seek Help
Dr Victor Kwok, Senior Consultant and Head, Department of Psychiatry, and Ms Evangeline Tan, Senior Principal Psychologist and Head, Department of Psychology, both from Sengkang General Hospital (SKH) offer insights.
HealthXchange, SingHealth
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Managing Anxiety and
Depression: Positivity is Key
Dr Victor Kwok, Senior Consultant and Head, Dr Tan Shian Ming, Senior Consultant, and Dr Seow Su Yin, Associate Consultant, all from the Department of Psychiatry at Sengkang General Hospital (SKH), share more.
HealthXchange, SingHealth
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