SINGAPORE, Aug 12 — A young woman in an online video speaks bravely about the agony of heartbreak she once felt, a time when it seemed that the suffocating pain would last forever.

She went on to say that she emerged, though, from that abyss when a “perspective shift changed me” — after realising that the pain “will pass” and by “surrounding myself with people who believe in me”.

“It did not take away my pain, but that shift in perspective made me think that there is more to life than this moment of pain that I’m going through right now,” she said.

“It may feel like it would last forever because when people go through pain, it’s all they think about... It’s impossible to see anything beyond that. But remember that it will pass.”

The woman is Nur Adam, 35, a trauma recovery therapist. She is part of a small but growing community of therapists in Singapore who are double hattin...