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‘I realise that there are people in the world who care about me’: Helping teens with mental health
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With more children and teenagers facing struggles from depression to anxiety, social service agencies have ramped up their work.
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SINGAPORE – Whenever 17-year-old Nur Zehan Fahira starts to have spiralling negative thoughts, she picks up her phone and sends a text to her social worker.
Things could have turned out very differently for the teen, who, at the age of eight, once thought of taking her own life because she was being bullied and had an unstable family life.
