{"id":342570,"date":"2025-12-11T07:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342570\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:02:16","slug":"hong-kong-grapples-with-mental-health-crisis-after-tai-po-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342570\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong grapples with mental health crisis after Tai Po inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">HONG KONG \u2013 A survivor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/multimedia\/graphics\/2025\/11\/hong-kong-fire\/index.html?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">Hong Kong\u2019s deadliest blaze<\/p>\n<p><\/a> in decades was asked by fellow victims to join a suicide pact, a counselling psychologist has revealed \u2013 a stark reflection of the mental health crisis gripping the city after the disaster.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Counselling psychologist Cheung Yim, who has been working with those affected by the Nov 26 fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, said the woman had lost both her loved ones and her home and was struggling to cope with the trauma.<\/p>\n<p>Hong KongFiresMental healthCounsellors\/PsychologistsSocial conditions and trends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONG KONG \u2013 A survivor of Hong Kong\u2019s deadliest blaze in decades was asked by fellow victims to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-342570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}