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    Youth Support Workers talking aloud to themselves

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    A place called HOME

    by Naturally Abstemious Muse posted at 2/18/2011 6:00:34 PM

    Recently, if any of you have peeled your attention to the television like me, may have come across a revamp version of a music video titled, “Home”, written by Dick Lee and originally performed by Kit Chan. Something about the music had the cogwheels in my mind churning, the warm feeling in my heart blossoming, not just the patriotic emotions that it has invoked within me but the notion that there is no place better than home. Or, what exactly, is this concept of home?

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    Nothing is gonna keep me down

    by paper plane girl posted at 2/18/2011 5:53:25 PM
    Most of my patients are cool people. On a basic level, I like them. Then there are the occasional ones that are unappreciative and sometimes even unnecessarily mean.
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    I Hate Feeling Fat

    by p.c posted at 2/17/2011 12:28:11 PM
    I remember quite vividly the intense guilt I would feel after each meal. I would start pinching my arms, my thighs and start feeling my jaw. I would start doing sit up and jumping jacks during every commercial break and before I sleep. I would jiggle my thighs while eating, thinking that it would erase some fats off my body.
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    One’s fascination with food and worries over body image

    by Naturally Abstemious Muse posted at 2/11/2011 6:09:36 PM

    An 8-year retrospective study (Lee, Lee, Pathy and Chan 2005) that looked at the clinical representation of individuals with anorexia nervosa in Singapore identified that majority of individuals were female students with a mean age of 17.6 years. This profile is very much similar to that reported in western literature. Moreover, it is a period where youths are subjected to an influx of societal pressures from commercials, print media and TV programmes that seem to promote beauty through being thin or “thin is beautiful”.