Mental health includes our emotional well-being and social well-being. Mental health It affects the way we think, feel and act.
It also helps determine how we deal with stress, relationships with others, and choices. Mental health is important at all stages of life, from childhood and adolescence to adulthood. Throughout your life, if you experience mental health problems, your thoughts, feelings and attitudes can be affected. Many factors contribute to mental health problems, including:
- Biological factors such as genetics or brain chemistry
- Life experiences such as injury or abuse
- Family history of mental health problems….
Seeing the importance of mental health, a young Singaporean entrepreneur, Theodoric Chew, decided to start a social business called Intellect in 2019, an innovative business to help solve people's mental health problems.
Meanwhile, according to a release by Forbes, the business has just raised an additional $ 10 million in Series A round from Tiger Global, bringing the total investment capital of the business to $ 20 million. To expand his business further, his platform currently has 3 million users.
Although just started, this business has big ambitions not only to help solve the problems of the people of Singapore, but also to expand the problems of the people throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The main mission of Intellect is to normalize mental health and shift the culture towards a more open conversation about personal well-being and eliminate the stigma attached to this issue.
According to Chew, the 26-year-old founder of the company, he dropped out of Raffles Institution, one of Singapore's top primary schools, a decade ago after struggling to cope with anxiety. His own life experience.
According to a survey conducted by Intellect at the time of the high epidemic of Kovid 19, 84% of workers across the Asia-Pacific region experience high levels of fatigue and 88% lose their job satisfaction. .
