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Worldwide issue, here in Brazil this happens too, here we have a culture that says that going to college means instant success in life, but that's a lie, here you can go to college for free (well, paying taxes but still), there are public colleges, but they are really hard to get into, so the vast majority of people goes to private colleges, then about that the Government created a program named FIES so you can go to a private college "for free", but after a few years you'll have to pay for your scholarship, they give you 2 to 3 years for you to find a job on your area and be able to pay your debt, seems like a great deal at first, but that's where the problem begins, there's no job, and the available jobs a lot of times pays bad or doesn't have any relation with what you planned to do, you get your college degree then there's nothing for you to do with it. Currently I'm going through the same problem, pandemic screwed everything, luckily I still have my mom's support, I love her, but I feel shame for still having to rely on her at this point of life...
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I am a hospice caregiver to my grandma in rural USA. I have to be with her 24/7 because she is bed ridden from a stroke and stomach cancer. I'm very blessed that she is mentally functional for the most part. I also took care of my mother when she had/survived breast cancer.
From my point of view, it is important for caregivers to receive more support than we get currently because we can provide a level of care that you will never get in a government funded nursing home. I'm blessed that our hospice staff are so helpful, but having some sort of monetary support for those of us who are giving up our careers, time, and energy is important as well. Especially since this is often a 2+ person job for many conditions.
This video brings up the cases of family members abusing or killing the people they are caring for, but this happens all the time in nursing facilities and hospitals as well. As part of our hospice program, we are supposed to get 5 days of respite a month where we send her up to the hospital to be taken care of so the caregivers can get some rest and take care of business. There are two problems with this: #1 we're only eligible if we're unpaid caregivers, even including the caregiver pay system through the government would make us ineligible. #2 the first thing they do as soon as they get her is taking away all her nutritional supplements, drug her up to the point of psychosis, and vomiting out any kind of intake, including water. This last time we had respite almost killed her and we were having to deal with it anyway so we weren't getting rest. We sent her up to get rest. Not for her to be executed. It's taken over a week and a half now to recover to the point of her thinking being clear again, but her appetite and physical capabilities seem to have taken a permanent hit and is speeding her decline.
Something that is hard to keep in mind is that the government has a vested interest in people in these situations to pass away as quickly as possible because they are considered a resource burden. It's one of the reasons why abuse in nursing homes is so rampant in addition to how difficult the work can be.
As for the caregiver pay i mentioned before. I have a friend who is on that system. It pays alright at 17/hour, but they apparently limit it to 10 hours a week. That might be dependent on the patient's situation since their patient is mobile and only needing limited support whereas my patient is bedridden. I'll be finding out soon since we won't do respite anymore.
Sometimes I do get depressed that I likely will never have a family to take care of me when I get to that age where I'll need help.
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Thank you very much for covering this topic. I think mental health stigma is a problem all around the world, but more so in Asian and African societies. I think there is bullying everywhere, but in highly conformist societies it is worse. I teach young children in South Korea, and bullying can start from a young age. I have also noticed that adults here are not always supportive when children are upset, and this is disturbing. Adults need to learn to welcome all emotions, the good, and the bad, otherwise children repress emotions, and end up with anxiety, depression, and this can lead to suicide. I think mental health education is vital in schools from a young age. Unfortunately, this is not part of the core curriculum, and often ignored, or downplayed, all over the world. I, myself have support for mental health issues. I would like to encourage everyone not to be afraid to asl for help. Asking for help, could save your life, it saved mine.
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The problem today is two parts: one, the way history, in general, is taught, and two, the mindset of the Millennial generation. The connection with history is stronger when you have someone who was there. For me, my Grandfather fought in WW2 in the Pacific, so it's important to me do to I had that connection. But this new Generation doesn't have that, so it's now like, "Oh, that happened almost 100 years ago. Why should I care?" The schooling now in the US is garbage, and more kids are being home schooled to learn things about history. This new mindset is troubling due to the old saying you are doomed to repeat history if you don't know history.
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Loved the video. It did make a lot of things clear to me now. I'm an optimistic person, so I, like the guy at 13:17 that said "I'll try to fit in as much as possible", is what I am trying to do as well. I'm almost done studying kanji, so the writting system I'll finally be able to read and write, and I'm also studying the history behind Japan, not only the wars they had but the Bushido, the politics, religion and also some of the folktales like the Oni, Yuki Onna, etc. I've studied a lot about japan already so I'm thinking when I go to Japan, it won't take me long to adapt and maybe even make some friends there.
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At the moment, I would quite easily say I fit into this subculture, particularly because here in the UK, working culture doesn't allow for those with mental disabilities (particularly those who discover it pretty late on, as I have) to be comfortable operating within the work place. I am more comfortable being online, but working out how to make it a more sociable environment for me to be able to function is not necessarily easy. Even online, there's a lot of ableism, and people are very dismissive of the needs of people with disabilities in particular. BUT, I have found that people online are MUCH more likely to be accepting and helpful than anyone I've met in person. I do think the Covid lockdown caused more than a few problems that make it really quite easy to fall into the role of a Hikikomori, but it also gave me the time to actually find out more about my health problems - something I know I wouldn't have been able to do if I was locked into a job. That said, I do hope that I'll be able to find some way past this barrier, to enter employment in a role I am more suitable for, rather than the mindless manual jobs that agencies seem to be desperate to pass on to me without thinking of the mental strain it puts me under.
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This is so interesting! In my youth, I spent a couple of years in Taiwan during college, to study Mandarin, but at that time, it was still under martial law and many aspects of the culture were tightly controlled. For example, the ROC government did not want the island to be taken over by Japanese culture, so they limited the amount of Japanese movies & TV shows, to encourage a more local, domestic Chinese culture to flourish. The ROC people, mostly mainlanders, naturally were also very distrustful of Japan, having fought (and lost) a terrible war against both them and the Communists. But the native Taiwanese had a certain nostalgia for the Japanese colonial era; among other things, they told me "there was no crime. If someone committed a crime, he was taken out and shot." The older people all could speak Japanese because they had to learn it in school between 1895 and 1945. Thus, when they saw a foreigner, they might speak Japanese, because that was the foreign language they knew. And of course, no one could visit mainland China at that time. I went into Guangdong from Hong Kong and brought back pictures, and friends in Taiwan were really interested to see them. Now I am dying to go back to Taiwan, with my family, and see how much things have changed. Democracy, relations with the mainland, food, culture, and just to see the people again! Thanks for this great report.
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