For once I'm not going to spend long talking about me and how psychologically f**ked up I am right now, lol! Latest newflash, I'm dealing with the IBS fine but have developed a friggen PHOBIA OF FOOD! HAHAHHA. Yes. I have to laugh otherwise I'm gonna cry again. So HAHAHAH to me.
Due to a rather traumatising food poisoning experience early 2008 I've developed a delayed sort of post traumatic stress syndrome to the point where I've now got a phobia of eating large quantities of food. YES, I fear food!!! To the point where my subconscious keeps firing major panic attacks at me. Thanks to that food poisoning incident my subconscious now assosciates food with nausea and vomiting = me afraid to even think about most foods (How f**ked is that!) Once I couldn't even get out of the car I was having such a big panic attack. I couldn't even clench my hands closed because the adreneline was making me shake so hard. So I'm going to make appointments at an anxiety clinic. Hell yeh! Bye bye stupid food phobia!
But enough about me. Lemme just say right now that my heart goes out to the108 126 that have been confirmed dead in Victoria, the state underneath mine.
The large amount of bushfires terrorising Victoria is so devastating. So far 108 people have been confirmed dead. It's the worst natural disaster we've had in terms of fatalities and extent of destruction. Every time I turn the TV on all I see is flames (said to reach TEN STOREY'S HIGH!), tears, destruction and death tolls rising.
Yesterday afternoon the death toll was 35 dead and that shocked me. By the time I went to bed it had flown up to 85 people dead. When I woke up this morning it was in the hundreds!!! There are still so many people missing that the death toll could easily keep rising up to 170 deaths. Whole families are perishing!! Either they get trapped in their home or when they try to escape in their car the fire storm is just too quick and surrounds them. What a way to end your life. I get so upset thinking about it - especially since it's believed that a lot of the main fires were deliberately lit!
And god dammmn it's so devastating! When our primeminister was making a speech about it he was so emotional he could barely get the words out until he did the whole 'this is mass murder' line. Talk about making me more emotional than I was to start with!
In just one suburb/area alone there were 550 homes destroyed. I get teary thinking about all the people without homes. I mean it's hard enough that Australia is in drought and also experiencing the economic recession, but now this had to happen. One guy's wife and children are missing. They were last seen running through the house when the fires swept through the area. No one has seen them since. He's just one out of the many waiting to hear if their loved ones made it through. It is really, really, really upsetting.
Thank you to all of the firefighters working their butts off to help try and get the fires under control. It warms my heart that all of the Aussie states and New Zealand are pitching in to help send in reinforcements and what not. I just hope that soon this tragedy can end. I hate that it just gets worse and worse and the fires are still out of control in many areas. To the arsonists who may have started these fires: I hope you are f**king happy.
Due to a rather traumatising food poisoning experience early 2008 I've developed a delayed sort of post traumatic stress syndrome to the point where I've now got a phobia of eating large quantities of food. YES, I fear food!!! To the point where my subconscious keeps firing major panic attacks at me. Thanks to that food poisoning incident my subconscious now assosciates food with nausea and vomiting = me afraid to even think about most foods (How f**ked is that!) Once I couldn't even get out of the car I was having such a big panic attack. I couldn't even clench my hands closed because the adreneline was making me shake so hard. So I'm going to make appointments at an anxiety clinic. Hell yeh! Bye bye stupid food phobia!
But enough about me. Lemme just say right now that my heart goes out to the
The large amount of bushfires terrorising Victoria is so devastating. So far 108 people have been confirmed dead. It's the worst natural disaster we've had in terms of fatalities and extent of destruction. Every time I turn the TV on all I see is flames (said to reach TEN STOREY'S HIGH!), tears, destruction and death tolls rising.
Yesterday afternoon the death toll was 35 dead and that shocked me. By the time I went to bed it had flown up to 85 people dead. When I woke up this morning it was in the hundreds!!! There are still so many people missing that the death toll could easily keep rising up to 170 deaths. Whole families are perishing!! Either they get trapped in their home or when they try to escape in their car the fire storm is just too quick and surrounds them. What a way to end your life. I get so upset thinking about it - especially since it's believed that a lot of the main fires were deliberately lit!
And god dammmn it's so devastating! When our primeminister was making a speech about it he was so emotional he could barely get the words out until he did the whole 'this is mass murder' line. Talk about making me more emotional than I was to start with!
In just one suburb/area alone there were 550 homes destroyed. I get teary thinking about all the people without homes. I mean it's hard enough that Australia is in drought and also experiencing the economic recession, but now this had to happen. One guy's wife and children are missing. They were last seen running through the house when the fires swept through the area. No one has seen them since. He's just one out of the many waiting to hear if their loved ones made it through. It is really, really, really upsetting.
Thank you to all of the firefighters working their butts off to help try and get the fires under control. It warms my heart that all of the Aussie states and New Zealand are pitching in to help send in reinforcements and what not. I just hope that soon this tragedy can end. I hate that it just gets worse and worse and the fires are still out of control in many areas. To the arsonists who may have started these fires: I hope you are f**king happy.
EDIT: Oh great, as soon as I posted this it was announced: At 14.35pm today the official death toll was 126. The toll is expected to rise. Will there be no end? T____T
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