Building a meaningful life

The rise of mental illness is disconcerting and demands our attention and seriousness in handling the issue.Malaysia has charted mental illness as a top 10 public health crisis as an effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, we live in a society that worries about how we are seen and judged by others — what psychologists call "the social evaluative threat" — which is one of the most serious burdens on the quality and experience of life in many countries.