Health Check Podcast: Building up your adulting skill for mental health
(From left) Founder of Character & Leadership Academy Mr Delane Lim, program lead for CHAT Ms Lee Yi Ping and ST senior health correspondent Joyce Teo. PHOTO: JASPER YU
How can young people build up their mental health and cope with societal pressures while they are adulting?
Health Check Podcast Building up your adulting skill for mental health
Synopsis: Every first Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times helps you make sense of health matters that affect you.
We all know that adulting is not easy, but why is adulting hitting the mental health of young people so much these days? ST senior health correspondent Joyce Teo explores this with two guests in this episode.
They are:
Ms Lee Yi Ping, the programme lead and principal Case Manager at Chat, Centre of Excellence for Youth Mental Health in Singapore. This service by the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) serves as a first-stop touchpoint for young people seeking mental health support.
Programme lead for CHAT Lee Yi Ping (right) talking at the second installment of ST Podcasts Live.
PHOTO: JASPER YU
Mr Delane Lim, the founder and executive director of the charity Character & Leadership Academy, which runs youth development, mental wellness, and suicide prevention programmes for young people. Mr Lim himself contemplated suicide at 25 and he knows just how tough adulting can be.
Founder of Character & Leadership Academy Delane Lim (left) talking at the second installment of ST Podcasts Live.
PHOTO: JASPER YU
They discuss what one can do to manage the challenges that adulting brings, whether it is related to identity, work or relationships.
Ms Lee and Mr Lim also share their own experiences.
This episode was recorded live - and filmed in front of a live audience - at The Projector at Golden Mile Tower, as part of the ST Podcast Live! Sessions celebrating 180 years of The Straits Times in 2025.
About 100 people attended the live broadcast at indie cinema The Projector at Golden Mile Tower.
PHOTO: JASPER YU
Highlights (click/tap above):
1:30 Is adulting harder today than it was in the past?
5:40 Managing the pressure of 'having it all' by a certain age
10:50 Delane's brush with suicide at 25
16:23 Yi Ping on feeling burnout
19:08 Navigating social media safely
22:15 Advice to their younger selves
Check out ST's new series, No health without mental health: https://str.sg/mentalhealthmatters
Read Joyce Teo's stories: https://str.sg/JbxN
Host: Joyce Teo (joyceteo@sph.com.sg)
Produced and edited by: Amirul Karim
Executive producers: Ernest Luis and Lynda Hong
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