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.
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