SINGAPORE – When they were struggling with their mental health, Jade and Annabelle, two women in their 20s, looked for peer support online. Both came across an unconventional source of support – a Discord server run by It All Starts Hear SG, a social enterprise set up to provide community-based mental health support. Discord, an online platform largely used by...
The Safehouse Discord server, run by youth mental health charity Limitless, has more than 500 youths as members.SINGAPORE – When they were struggling with their mental health, Jade and Annabelle, two women in their 20s, looked for peer support online.
The Sunday Times found several Discord servers set up in Singapore in recent years with an aim of creating a space for young people to seek mental health support from their peers. "I have social anxiety so it takes time for me to warm up to people that I have just met. Being anonymous makes it easier for me to be vulnerable."
Psychology practice Annabelle Psychology also created a server in 2020. There are more than 120 users today, said principal clinical psychologist Annabelle Chow. Mr Asher Low, founder of Limitless, said the Safehouse server his charity operates openly encourages whistle-blowing if any member makes another feel unsafe. The server was set up in April 2021, and now has about 500 users.
It currently has about 40,000 members from around the world, with about a third of them Singaporean, said Mr Spruyt.
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