Fahami stres guru dan pelajar

Pegawai Perubatan Kanan menyampai ceramah kepada yang hadir.

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, 27 Julai - Bahagian Pentadbiran Sekolah Menengah Lambak Kiri (SMLK) telah mengendalikan program perkembangan staf bagi guru-guru yang bertempat di Bilik Persidangan sekolah berkenaan.
Program yang menjurus kepada stres di kalangan guru dan pelajar itu telah mengundang penceramah dari Jabatan Psikiatri RIPAS, Pegawai Perubatan Kanan, Dr Rifai Farid bagi menyampaikan ceramah bertajuk Stres dan Kesihatan Mental.
Dalam ceramahnya beliau menyentuh mengenai jenis-jenis stres yang dihadapi di kalangan guru dan pelajar, hubungan antara stres dengan kesihatan mental serta cara-cara atau tip mengendalikan stres dalam jangka pendek dan panjang.
Antara lain tujuan ceramah tersebut adalah untuk menambah ilmu pengetahuan tentang stres dan kesihatan serta memantapkan kefahaman guru-guru tentang stres.
Turut hadir mendengar ceramah berkenaan ialah timbalan pengetua, timbalan pentadbiran, kaunselor dan para guru sekolah berkenaan.


(Diambil dari Media Permata Online Sabtu/Ahad 28/29hb Julai 2012 Oleh Sahama)

Effects of Emotional Abuse: It Hurts When I Love

Love without compassion is possessive, controlling, and dangerous.
Published on August 26, 2008 by Steven Stosny in Anger in the Age of Entitlement


The simplest definition of emotionally abusive behavior is anything that intentionally hurts the feelings of another person. Since almost everyone in intimate relationships does that at some time or other in the heat of an argument, emotionally abusive behavior must be distinguished from an emotionally abusive relationship, which is more than the sum of emotionally abusive behaviors.
In an emotionally abusive relationship, one party systematically controls the other by:
•Undermining his or her confidence, worthiness, growth, or trust
•"Gaslighting" - making him/her feel crazy or unstable
•Manipulating him/her with fear or shame.

Here are examples:
"You shouldn't spend so much on clothes, you don't look good anyway."
"Don't complain about how bad you have it, no one else could love you."
"Working and taking courses is too much for you; you can't handle what you need to do now."
"Your friends and family just want something from you."
"I have to drink to be able to stand you."
"One of these days you'll wake up, and I'll be gone."
"You don't know the first thing about raising kids."


It's important to note that most emotional abuse is not as direct and verbal as these examples. All the above can be implied with sarcasm, irony, or mumblings and can be communicated with body language, rolling eyes, sighs, grimaces, tone of voice, disgusted looks, cold shoulders, slamming doors, banging dishes, stonewalling, cold shoulders, etc. There are a myriad of ways to be emotionally abusive.


Gender Distinctions


In more than 20 years of working with abusive relationships, I have noticed a consistent gender distinction in the kind of abuse perpetrated. An emotionally abusive man controls his partner by manipulating her fear of harm, isolation, and deprivation; he threatens or implies that he might hurt her, leave her, or keep her apart from the things she loves. An emotionally abusive woman controls her partner by manipulating his dread of failure as a provider, protector, lover, or parent: "I could have married a man who made more money, I had more orgasms with my last boyfriend, you're not a real man, and you don't know the first thing about raising kids."

This difference in vulnerability to fear and shame is why the gender symmetry present in emotionally abusive behaviors vanishes in emotionally abusive relationships. In other words, women engage in as much emotionally abusive behavior as men, but the systematic use of emotional abuse to control another person is usually the domain of men, simply because it is easier to control someone with fear than shame.


A typical defense against shame is to tune out the person provoking it. Although we never forget humiliation, it is relatively easy not to think about things that cause shame. (The root of the word, "shame" means to cover or hide. That's one reason we tend to make the same mistakes over and over, by the way.) The cliché of the numb husband ignoring the nagging or strident wife isn't far from the truth. The abuse, though inexcusable, is not as painful for him. He is more likely to describe himself as adaptively following the path of least resistance than as a victim living under the thumb of someone more powerful. In my experience, emotionally abused men do not live in fear, even though they are ill-treated and far from happy.


In contrast, fear is an alarm system whose threshold of activation is designed to adapt to a dangerous environment. In other words, the more you experience fear, the more sensitized to possible danger you become. (That's why you might be unnerved by a moving shadow after seeing a horror movie.) The usual reaction to fear is hypervigilence. Thus women notice more of what the abusive partner is doing and are more likely to have their thoughts, feelings, and behavior controlled by the abusive partner. Indeed, it is almost impossible not to think about things that make you afraid when they are in proximity - just try to ignore the sleeping saber tooth tiger in the next room.

Effects


In many ways, emotional abuse is more psychologically harmful than physical abuse. There are a couple of reasons for this. Even in the most violent families, the incidents tend to be cyclical. 

Early in the abuse cycle, a violent outburst is followed by a honeymoon period of remorse, attention, affection, and generosity, but not genuine compassion. (The honeymoon stage eventually ends, as the victim begins to say, "Never mind the damn flowers, just stop hitting me!") Emotional abuse, on the other hand, tends to happen every day. The effects are more harmful because they're so frequent.


The other factor that makes emotional abuse so devastating is the greater likelihood that victims will blame themselves. If someone hits you, it's easier to see that he or she is the problem, but if the abuse is subtle - saying or implying that you're ugly, a bad parent, stupid, incompetent, not worth attention, or that no one could love you - you are more likely to think it's your problem. Emotional abuse seems more personal than physical abuse, more about you as a person, more about your spirit. It makes love hurt.
If you suspect that you are in an emotionally abusive relationship, take the Walking on Eggshells quiz. If your score indicates that you are walking on eggshells, the test will lead you to information on what to do about it.

Borneo Bulletin Article - Mental health: Is it really all in the mind?

By Dr Ramli Hassan, Specialist & Head of Psychiatric Services (Taken from Borneo Bulletin Weekend 22nd October 2011)

World Mental Health Day is celebrated throughout the world on October 10 of every year.

For 2011, the theme chosen by the World Federation of Mental Health (WFMH) is "The Great Push: Investing in Mental Health". This theme emphasises the importance of mental health at all levels of society and the importance of investing resources to ensure the maintenance of optimal mental health in all the members of a society.

The number of people suffering from mental illness in the community is large. In general, the rate of mental illness is higher in the more developed and urbanised societies as compared with the developing and less urbanised societies.

For example, in the United States, Europe and Japan, one in every four adults has some form of mental illness requiring treatment. This rate is lower in the less developed societies such as Malaysia where 11 per cent of the adult population suffer from some kind of mental illness. The prevalence rate of mental illness in Brunei is not known as no epidemiological study has been done on the subject.

For your information

Source : Borneo Bulletin, Saturday 27th November 2010

Are u a Negative Thinker???

This is the kind of negative self-talk that feeds low self-esteem, anxiety and

depression. Negative self-talk is an accumulation of self-limiting messages that has become a habit. Breaking this destructive habit is possible, though it takes repetition and practice to learn more constructive and helpful ways of thinking.

Most negative self-talk is false, distorted, irrational, and self-defeating. We develop a habit of negative self-talk to protect ourselves. We use it to keep from trying things that may be scary or uncomfortable. "I can't do this" may really be a way of saying: "I don't want to face the risk of failing at this."

But our feelings don't have to control us. We can choose not to feel angry, guilty or frustrated. But to develop this control, we must learn to recognize negative self-talk and replace it with positive thoughts.  Talk to yourself as though you were talking to a friend, asking yourself what you could say in place of the negative thought.

Negative thoughts often come so automatically that we are unaware of them. We start to feel anxious, sad or depressed, but we do not notice the thoughts that are causing us to feel that way. In order to counter these thoughts and feel better, we first need to "catch ourselves in the act" of negative self talk.

Examine your self talk. Test the validity of your perceptions by asking yourself questions, such as:

What evidence backs up this thought?

Am I jumping to negative conclusions?

Are there any other ways that I could look at this situation?

What is the worst thing that could happen?

How likely is it?

What is the best that can happen?

What is most likely to happen?

Is thinking this way helping me to feel good or to achieve my goals?

 

Negative self-talk:

Are you experiencing any of these destructive kinds of thinking?

Types of negative thinking:

Negative thoughts are usually distorted.  We have trouble seeing things as they really are, often exaggerating our thoughts.

The following is a list of ways our thinking can be distorted:

1. Filtering:  You see and hear only the things you have selected.  Your attention is awakened only by particular kinds of information loss, rejection, unfairness, and so on.  You have blind spots that obscure evidence of your worth.  It’s as though you only let in the information that matches the way you feel about yourself.

2. Polarizing:  This is often referred to as “black and white’ thinking.  This can be particularly damaging to self-esteem, since you will see yourself as worthless if you aren’t absolutely perfect.  Watch for self-talk that sounds like “If I mess this up, I’m a hopeless failure.”

3. Overgeneralization:  This is a common distortion that plagues a lot of us.  It has to do with taking one isolated fact or event and making a general rule out of it.  For example, one date with an ice skater does not go well, so you decide that all ice skaters will find you boring.  When you hear these words in your self-talk, listen up!  These are clues to overgeneralization: never, always, all, every, none, everyone, nobody, etc.

4. Mind Reading:  This is when your self-talk assumes that everyone else is exactly like you.  Mind reading is fatal to self-esteem, because you are especially liable to think that everyone agrees with your negative opinions of yourself.  When you mind read, you think your perception is right and you act as if it is right, never stopping to check out what other people’s reality is.  Say you have a friend who frowns a lot.  You leap to conclusions without any real evidence that they are mad at you.

5. Self-blame:  You blame yourself for everything, whether it’s your fault or not.  You feel responsible for things that are out of your control.

6. Personalization:  This is the “it’s all about me” self-talk.  The way this shows up in negative self-talk and damages your self-esteem is that any time there is mention of a problem, you automatically assume that they are talking about you.   You negatively compare yourself to others.

7. Control Fallacies:  Control fallacies either put you in control of the whole universe, or put everyone but you in charge.  You struggle to control every aspect of every situation.  You hold yourself responsible for everything that goes wrong.  You either feel that you have total responsibility for everything, or feel that you have no control and are a helpless victim always waiting for someone else to fix things.

8. Shoulds: You have a list of ironclad rules about how you and other people should act. People who break the rules anger you and you feel guilty if you violate the rules.

9. Fallacy of Change: You expect that other people will change to suit you if you just pressure them enough.  You need to change people because your hopes for happiness seem to depend entirely on them.

10. Global Labeling: You generalize one or two qualities into a global judgment.  If you catch yourself fixing labels on everything that once and for all defines them in a negative light, watch yourself. You may be labeling things as a way to avoid dealing with them in a dynamic way.  Here are some clues: My house is a pigsty, I’m a poor money manager, my boss is a grouch, my roommate is a slob, I’m awful at math, etc.

Positive Self-Talk:

Write down a positive and nurturing statement that counteracts the negative self-talk. For example, change:

"I'll never get this done" to "I've been on tight deadlines before and I usually manage to get the job done."

"I'll never survive this." to "I have come through worse than this"

"I can't sleep thinking about this." to "This isn't worth worrying about - I'm going to let it go"

"I can't do this." to "This is an opportunity to learn something new."

Positive self-talk can be motivating, build self confidence, and keep you focused on accomplishing goals. It coaches you to succeed despite the obstacles you face. If you're thinking: "I don't have the energy to exercise", replace the negative thought with a positive and encouraging one: "I can start slowly by going for a short walk."

Practice thinking positive thoughts every day:

I will lose weight because I am learning to eat more nutritiously.

I am a kind person.

I have had successes in my career and I will have more successes in my career.      

I deserve to pursue happiness.

This is an opportunity to learn and grow.

I try to surround myself with supportive, positive people.

I can accomplish this goal by taking it one step at a time.

Record your observations in a notebook and refer to it when you find yourself experiencing negative self talk.

Learn to turn your negative self-talk to positive self-talk and watch your mood improve.

Sometimes it is easier to recognize negative thought patterns with a little help from a trusted friend or counselor.   Working on changing thought patterns is part of a type of therapy called cognitive therapy.

Taken from:
http://recoveryhope4all.com/negativethinker.html

 

Original source from:

University of California, Berkeley (http://www.uhs.berkley.edu/facstaff/care/negativethinking.shtml)

Develop the Habit of Healthy Self -Talk! (http://healthyhabits.com/selfTalk.asp)

Taking Charge! A Guide for Teenagers: Practical Ways to Overcome Stress, Hassles and Upsetting Emotions. By: Dr Sarah Edelman and Louise       Rémond

http://www.dbsalliance.org/site/PageServer?pagename=empower_negativethinkingWS&printer_friendly=1

Schizophrenia and Suicide

Suicide is not a mental illness in itself, but a serious potential consequence of many mental disorders, particularly major depression.

Suicide Warning Signs

• Excessive sadness or moodiness: Long-lasting sadness and mood swings can be symptoms of depression, a major risk factor for suicide.
• Sudden calmness: Suddenly becoming calm after a period of depression or moodiness can be a sign that the person has made a decision to end his or her life.
• Withdrawal: Choosing to be alone and avoiding friends or social activities also are possible symptoms of depression, a leading cause of suicide. This includes the loss of interest or pleasure in activities the person previously enjoyed.
• Changes in personality and/or appearance: A person who is considering suicide might exhibit a change in attitude or behavior, such as speaking or moving with unusual speed or slowness. In addition, the person might suddenly become less concerned about his or her personal appearance.
• Dangerous or self-harmful behavior: Potentially dangerous behavior, such as reckless driving, engaging in unsafe sex, and increased use of drugs and/or alcohol might indicate that the person no longer values his or her life.
• Recent trauma or life crisis: A major life crises might trigger a suicide attempt. Crises include the death of a loved one or pet, divorce or break-up of a relationship, diagnosis of a major illness, loss of a job, or serious financial problems.
• Making preparations: Often, a person considering suicide will begin to put his or her personal business in order. This might include visiting friends and family members, giving away personal possessions, making a will, and cleaning up his or her room or home. Some people will write a note before committing suicide.
• Threatening suicide: Not everyone who is considering suicide will say so, and not everyone who threatens suicide will follow through with it. However, every threat of suicide should be taken seriously.

 

Who Is Most Likely to Commit Suicide?

Suicide rates are highest in teens, young adults, and the elderly. People over the age of 65 have the highest rate of suicide. Suicide risk also is higher in the following groups:

• Older people who have lost a spouse through death or divorce
• People who have attempted suicide in the past
• People with a family history of suicide
• People with a friend or co-worker who committed suicide
• People with a history of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse
• People who are unmarried, unskilled, or unemployed
• People with long-term pain, or a disabling or terminal illness
• People who are prone to violent or impulsive behavior
• People who have recently been released from a psychiatric hospitalization (This often is a very frightening period of transition.)
• People in certain professions, such as police officers and health care providers who work with terminally ill patients
• People with substance abuse problems

Although women are more likely to attempt suicide, men are more likely to be successful.

Can Suicide Be Prevented?
In many cases, suicide can be prevented. Research suggests that the best way to prevent suicide is to know the risk factors, be alert to the signs of depression and other mental disorders, recognize the warning signs for suicide, and intervene before the person can complete the process of self-destruction.
People who receive support from caring friends and family, and who have access to mental health services are less likely to act on their suicidal impulses than are those who are isolated from sources of care and support. If someone you know is exhibiting warning signs for suicide, don't be afraid to ask if he or she is depressed or thinking about suicide. In some cases, the person just needs to know that someone cares and is looking for the chance to talk about his or her feelings. You can then encourage the person to seek professional help.

 

What Should I Do if Someone I Know Is Considering Suicide?

If someone you know is threatening suicide, take the threat seriously.

• Do not leave the person alone. If possible, ask for help from friends or other family members.
• Ask the person to give you any weapons he or she might have. Take away or remove sharp objects or anything else that the person could use to hurt him or herself.
• Try to keep the person as calm as possible.

Original source from: WebMD [ Better information; Better Health]
http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/guide/recognizing-suicidal-behavior

Facebook Syndrome: 8 Ways to Beat Your Facebook Addiction

Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, Twitter, Myspace… the list is endless. Millions of us are addicted. The Government tells us that our time wasting internet addictions are costing the country billions of dollars every year. Our productivity at work is dismal because we spend most of the day reading our Fun Wall or checking out our favorite blogs. Can this additive behavior be beaten?

The answer is yes.

In this article I want to give you some simple and concrete ways to beat your time wasting internet addiction.

Facebook Syndrome: How to tell if you are an internet addict

Before we start you need to find out if you are an addict. Once you have admitted to yourself that you are addicted to your favorite website we can go about giving you some solutions for that problem. Here are some surefire signs that you are addicted:

1. You are late for meetings because you are on Facebook
If you ever late for a meeting or an appointment because you were checking your updates on Facebook or watching a related video on Youtube then you know you are addicted. This is classic addict behavior. It is time to get help.

2. You think about it when you are offline
I have several friends who struggle to get to sleep because they are thinking about the latest game or wondering how their website statistics are looking. If you do this then it could be a sign that you are heading towards a problem.

3. Your friends and family comment on your excessive internet use
When other people around you start to notice that you have a problem it is generally a pretty accurate indicator that you are losing it. If your mates, coworkers or family members have made comments about how much you use the net then you need to read the rest of this post.

4. You check your accounts from your Blackberry
A Blackberry is designed as a business tool. It is supposed to allow you to check your important emails and work materials without having to be in the office. It is not for checking Facebook or Myspace updates while you are having dinner with me. That is just not on. If you use your Blackberry for monitoring your social media accounts then you need help.

5. You get stressed when a Facebook “friend” doesn’t add you
Have you ever noticed yourself getting stressed over something that has happened on Facebook or Myspace? Do you ever feel like your online life is more real than your offline life? If you have been stressed about what rapper you turned out as or what magic egg someone sent you then it is time to open your eyes.

The Rise of Psychiatric Diagnoses in Younger Kids

Adults tend to look back on childhood as a carefree time of playing with friends, going to school, and being taken care of. Compared with the concerns that accompany adulthood, being a kid is a piece of cake, right?

So it's shocking to learn that a recent study found that the rate of antipsychotic medications given to kids 2 to 5 years old doubled between 1999 and 2007. Antipsychotic drugs typically are used to treat schizophrenia, psychosis, bipolar disorder, and other severe mental disorders, yet in this study also were given to kids diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorders (such as autism), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and disruptive behavior disorder.

While the number of younger kids affected still is very small, the growing trend alarms mental health experts. The study's authors, for instance, also report that fewer than half of the children in their study had received any mental health services, such as a mental health assessment or treatment from a psychotherapist or psychiatrist.

What This Means to You

About 1 in 5 children in the United States has an emotional or behavioral condition, according to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). But these often are problems like anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and depression, which can respond well to early treatment with gentle, kid-friendly techniques like talk therapy.

Early diagnosis and treatment are key. Parents who worry that their child might be suffering from a mental health condition should first speak with their pediatrician or primary care provider, who can assess the child and then refer parents to a mental health specialist, if needed.

A child should receive a full mental health assessment from a specialist, such as a psychologist or psychiatrist, before being put on any psychiatric medication, especially one as strong as an antipsychotic. In addition to taking a thorough medical history, the specialist will ask about the family situation and school environment, and if there is a family history of psychiatric problems.

If other options, such as talk therapy and less powerful medications, have been unsuccessful in treating a severe mental disorder, only then should mental health professionals turn to stronger pharmaceutical treatments.

Reviewed by: D'Arcy Lyness, PhD
Date reviewed: December 2010

Taken from:

KidsHealth at 

http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/issues_2011/2011_psychiatric.html#cat20859

2 April 2011: Hari Autism Sedunia

Hari ini merupakan hari mewujudkan kesedaraan mengenai autism sedunia.

Autism adalah istilah yang digunakan untuk mengtakrifkan sekumpulan individu yang mempunyai interaksi sosial yang berbeza daripada kebanyakkan individu lain. Adalah dipercayai autism mempunyai spektrum atau kepelbagaian yang luas, iaitu setiap individu yang ditakrifkan sebagai mempunyai autism mempunyai tahap yang berbeza dari segi mereka berlainan dari masyarakat umum.

Autism disebabkan kelainan pada perkembangan otak orang yang mempunyai autism. Ia juga mempengaruhi cara otak mereka bertindak.

Lebih kurang 1 dalam 100 orang di seluruh dunia mempunyai autism.

Kebolehan intellektual mereka adalah berbeza-beza, dari yang mempunyai kebolehan yang tersangat rendah, hingga kepada yang dapat melanjutkan pelajaran hingga ke tahap tinggi, berkahwin dan berkerja. Lebih kurang 10% dari mereka juga mempunyai kebolehan istimewa seperti bermain muzik ataupun matematik.

Orang-orang yang mepunyai autism, samada kanak-kanak ataupun yang sudah dewasa mempunyai masalah khasnya di dalam 3 segi, iaitu:

1. Berkommunikasi

Ada kemungkinan mereka kurang fasih bercakap, didapati lambat belajar bercakap, ataupun bercakap dengan alunan yang berbeza dari orang lain.

2. Berinteraksi secara sosial bersama orang lain

Ini termasuk kurang bertentang mata dengan orang lain semasa bercakap, tidak mengendahkan orang lain, seolahnya tidak memahami kebiasaan sosial, contohnya terlalu mesra dengan orang tidak dikenali. Mereka juga mungkin tidak dapat membaca perasaan orang lain dengan tepat.

3. Tingkah laku 

Tingkah laku mereka mungkin terlalu memberatkan rutin seharian, contohnya makan pada waktu tertentu, tidur pada waktu tertentu, keluar bersiar pada waktu tertentu, dan jika rutin tidak ditepati menyebabkan mereka sangat tertekan. Mereka sukar menerima perubahan apa-apa pada rutin seharian.

Minat mereka mungkin tertumpu kepada satu perkara seperti elektronik, ataupun mengumpul objek yang biasanya tidak diminati oleh individu lain.

Mereka mungkin terlalu sensitif kepada bunyi-bunyian, ataupun kepada sentuhan. Sesetengah dari mereka suka menyentuh atau membelai objek-objek yang mempunyai rasa yang tertentu seperti bulu-buluan atau pasir.

Mungkin juga mereka berulang-ulang menggerakan anggota badan tanpa sebab.

Apakah sebab-sebab austism terjadi?

Sebab-sebab orang mengalami autism belum diketahui, tetapi ianya ada faktor keturunan dan juga faktor cara pembesaran.


Apakah yang dapat dilakukan?

Autism tidak dapat disembuhkan sepenuhnya.

Cara-cara untuk menolong orang yang mempunyai autism dan keluarga mereka ialah:
1. Memberikan kesedaran dan pengisian tentang autism
2. Memberi sokongan kepada mereka dan ahli keluarga mereka.
3. Mengawal masalah tingkah laku.
4. Mendidik mereka dari segi interaksi sosial, dan dari segi emosi.
5. Kadangkala ubat dapat menolong juga.

Tindakan yang diambil pada peringkat awal adalah lebih baik dan lebih berkesan. Pelbagai pakar kesihatan akan terlibat, seperti speech therapist (untuk menolong perkembangan dari segi kommunikasi), ahli psikologi, occupational therapist dan juga pakar kesihatan kanak-kanak ataupun pakar psikiatri.

Di Negara Brunei Darussalam, autism boleh dikenalpasti di Child Development Centre di Kiarong, selepas mendapatkan surat dari doktor klinik kesihatan ataupun pakar kesihatan yang lain.

Dua pusat untuk menolong mereka yang mempunyai autism di Brunei adalah Smarter dan Learning Ladders. Bagi mereka yang mempunyai masalah tingkah laku yang susah dikawal, ataupun jika mereka atau ahli keluarga mereka mempunyai tekanan yang terlalu banyak, pakar psikiatri di Jabatan Psikiatri di Hospital RIPAS bersedia juga untuk menawarkan bantuan.

(Artikel ini dipetik, diterjemah dan diubahsuai dari: http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinfo/mentalhealthandgrowingup/autismandaspergers.aspx)

Hari Kanser (Barah) Sedunia 2011: Kesan Kanser Ke atas Kesejahteraan Jiwa

Hari Jumaat lepas, iaitu 4hb Februari 2011, merupakan Hari Kanser Sedunia - satu hari yang dipilih oleh Badan Kesihatan Sedunia (World Health Organization atau WHO) untuk mewujukan kesedaran masyarakat di seluruh dunia mengenai penyakit kanser. Tujuan menyambut hari tersebut juga adalah untuk mendorong usaha untuk mencegah, mengesan, dan merawat penyakit ini.


Di Negara Brunei Darussalam, pelbagai acara diadakan untuk menyambut Hari Kanser Sedunia, termasuk Forum yang diadakan pada 9hb Februari 2011 dan Walkathon di Jerudong Park pada hari Ahad 13hb Februari 2011.


Sungguhpun pada hari ini kebanyakan jenis penyakit kanser dapat dirawat (terutamanya jika dikesan dan dirawat pada tahap awal), ianya masih merupakan sesuatu yang cukup traumatik apabila diberi berita yang diri atau orang tersayang mempunyai penyakit kanser. Bagi kebanyakkan orang, penyakit kanser masih mempunyai sinonim dengan kematian. Cuba fikirkan, apakah terbayang diminda awda apabila membayangkan seseorang yang mempunyai penyakit kanser? Seorang yang kurus kering, kepala yang tidak lagi ditumbuhi rambut, badan yang lemah tidak bermaya, dan dekat kepada ajal.