#5 Eating Disorder Awareness
NEDA Week This week is marked as the National Eating Disorder Awareness (NEDA) Week in The United States, which aims to bring light to different eating disorders to increase the awareness, provide support for those suffering, as well as to educate the general public. I will be sharing more about eating disorders and the importance of raising awareness about such mental illness in our community, which to me is the elephant in the room that needs to be addressed. In Singapore where mental illness awareness is rarely touched on and many avoid the conversation of such illnesses, I personally believe that it’s of paramount importance to shed light on such disorders. Why is there a need? I feel the need for this blog as it can help those who are in recovery, those who are still lost and seeking help. Shedding light to such topics to the public would hopefully allow for a better understanding of how individuals can make Singapore a more inclusive society through actions an