So I'm gonna make a list of things that scare me and why, random I know :)
1.) The People's Republic of China
- They have dying rooms, which of course China deny, basically a dying room is a room in the back of Chinese orphanage where mentally ill and handicapped children are left to die, they aren't fed, watered or given any attention, they're just left to die, alone.
- It's perfectly normal in the PRC to just disappear, and if you make a statement going against how amazing the government is, you can pretty much expect to be disappearing into nihility pretty soon.
- Do you know what happened on the 4th June? Everyone should, unless of course you're Chinese, in which case it never happened. In China the incidents of the 4th June is pretty taboo about as taboo as cracking jokes on rape, necrophilia and paedophilia over the table at a formal gathering. Well, if you don't know, on 4th June, 1989 students and other people of knowledge decided to gather and protest. Big mistake, according to China's official records only 200 people died, and although there's no way of knowing exactly, the numbers are probably more like 2000-3000.
- There's a massive firewall in China, what this means is: anything that China disagrees with, or allows the Chinese a fraction of autonomy is blocked, yes sites like Flickr, Myspace, Facebook and YouTube are blocked by the Chinese Government. Also websites from outside China such as Google China, Yahoo China etc have promised to conform, i.e. not show any undesirable results.
- Random, I know, but they're so DISGUSTING, completely... I DID upload a photo of one, but the feelings of nausea overcame me, just google moth, they're fucking nasty.
- Firstly, if you don't know what either of these are, you're stupid, incredibly stupid.
- There's something terrifying about these maybe it's because it's killing an estimated 2.1 million people and over 33.2 million people already are living with it.
- So, there's treatments out there to slow down the disease, but still it's of little comfort considering there's no vaccine or cure. Sure you can have all the safe-sex you want but not many people take into consideration that they can also get it from breastmilk or blood, so all it takes would be one slip up... I mean I know I randomly bleed all the time so how hard must it be to make sure you don't bleed at all?
- Ignorant people also don't help, people who believe that HIV and AIDS doesn't exist, or those who believe it's a divine punishment, Nelson Mandela, he's regarded as a hero, yet he denies this disease exists. Ignorance is a grave danger and one of the reasons diseases like HIV spread is due to ignorance, the majority of deaths regarding this are in the sub-Saharan region of Africa, why? Because they're ignorant, not through their own fault of course, but because charities are corrupt they don't get the help they need, treatments to make living with HIV & AIDS are expensive and not everyone can afford them.
- I've actually put in a considerable amount of research into eating disorders, mainly Anorexia Nervosa (as opposed to anorexia meaning something completely different to Anorexia Nervosa) and Bulimia Nervosa.
- People credit eating disorders as being 'attention seeking' and maybe they are, I don't know, what I do know is that they're serious, they're mental disorders and are mortiferous.
- Only 1/3 of people with Anorexia Nervosa receive mental care, with only 6% of bulimics receiving mental care.
- Anorexia Nervosa has the highest premature fatality rate of any other mental illness.
Illness Prevalence Research Funds
Eating Disorders 10 million £6,000,000
Alzheimer's Disease 4.5 million £323,500,000
Schizophrenia 2.2 million £175,000,000
(Source: Cerulean Butterfly)
Eating Disorders 10 million £6,000,000
Alzheimer's Disease 4.5 million £323,500,000
Schizophrenia 2.2 million £175,000,000
(Source: Cerulean Butterfly)
