SINGAPORE: 35-year-old Valentina Ko works out more on days when her job is particularly difficult. Loneliness creeps in after I am really irritated. Because I feel like no one truly knows what I’m going through, therefore I can’t talk to them,” she added.
Last year, when he and his close pals started to drift apart as their paths diverged, 24-year-old Zen Ho felt the most alone. They sought work, relocated abroad, or enrolled in college while he took a year off.
They no longer had similar schedules and lives, so Ho explained, “We were kind of going through different phases in life, and I constantly found myself out of sync.” Making contact with them started to cause anxiety. He pondered, “What if we meet and have nothing to talk about?
Everybody experiences loneliness occasionally. However, according to a recent Institute of Policy Studies survey, young Singaporeans between the ages of 21 and 34 experienced the greatest degrees of social isolation and loneliness.
CNA’s Talking Point started the #WHOISCHECKINGIN campaign to increase public awareness of youth mental wellness in response to these findings and in the run-up to World Mental Health Day on October 10.
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