About This Project

Type: Awareness

Amidst Brunei’s early stage of endemicity, the country was also undergoing a 3rd wave outbreak of COVID-19 where the local cases surpassed three thousand per day. This has raised public concerns and a part of it was related to the psychological challenges.

On the 27th February 2022, WeCare had virtually hosted an open forum via instagram live to discuss and address some of these challenges with the help of a guest speaker Puan Hajah Rozailah binti Haji Abdul Rahman, who is a Psychologist from the Community Psychology Division, Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health. The title of the forum was “How are you? : Tackling the psychological challenges during the 3rd wave.”.

The forum was structured by first collecting concerns and questions from the public prior to the forum, and these concerns and questions were then addressed live. Before ending the live forum, it was opened to accept questions from the audiences as well. The key takeaways from the forum are:

• Maintaining a good mental health is to have a good routine, have a healthy lifestyle, strengthen spirituality and strong support system i.e family and friends.
• Talk to someone you trust regarding your anxiety.
• Focus on what you can control: take care of your health and live a healthy lifestyle.
• Whenever you are anxious there are a lot of ways you can calm yourself. One of them is deep breathing, drinking water and top of it off with doa.
• “Usaha” to be protected from COVID and “Tawakkal” trust Allah and your usaha will help you to be protected.
• Redha with what has happened but with usaha, tawakal and always doa.

This was the first forum related to mental health hosted by WeCare and WeCare would like to thank everyone that was involved and had participated.