rozzieoz wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 12:19 pm In what way are they torturing you every night?

they've set up a wedding tent next door

Here's a start:

Persecutory delusions: a cognitive perspective on understanding and treatment. Lancet Psychiatry. 2016 Jul;3(7):685-92. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(16)00066-3.

A spectrum of severity of paranoia (unfounded thoughts that others are deliberately intending to cause harm) exists within the general population. This is unsurprising: deciding whether to trust or mistrust is a vital aspect of human cognition, but accurate judgment of others' intentions is challenging. The severest form of paranoia is persecutory delusions, when the ideas are held with strong conviction. This paper presents a distillation of a cognitive approach that is being translated into treatment for this major psychiatric problem. Persecutory delusions are viewed as threat beliefs, developed in the context of genetic and environmental risk, and maintained by several psychological processes including excessive worry, low self-confidence, intolerance of anxious affect and other internal anomalous experiences, reasoning biases, and the use of safety-seeking strategies. The clinical implication is that safety has to be relearned, by entering feared situations after reduction of the influence of the maintenance factors. An exciting area of development will be a clinical intervention science of how best to enhance learning of safety to counteract paranoia.

Advances in understanding and treating persecutory delusions: a reviewDaniel Freeman and Philippa Garety Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2014; 49(8): 1179–1189.

Persecutory delusions are a central psychotic experience, at the severe end of a paranoia spectrum in the general population. The aim of the review is to provide an introduction to the understanding of persecutory delusions, highlight key putative causal factors that have the potential to be translated into efficacious treatment, and indicate future research directions.

Results
Six main proximal causal factors are identified: a worry thinking style, negative beliefs about the self, interpersonal sensitivity, sleep disturbance, anomalous internal experience, and reasoning biases. Each has plausible mechanistic links to the occurrence of paranoia. These causal factors may be influenced by a number of social circumstances, including adverse events, illicit drug use, and urban environments.

Conclusions
There have been numerous replicated empirical findings leading to a significant advance in the understanding of persecutory delusions, now beginning to be translated into cognitive treatments. The first trials specifically focussed on patients who have persecutory delusions in the context of psychotic diagnoses are occurring. Initial evidence of efficacy is very promising.

IraHayes wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 12:31 pm

FREDY321 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:16 am
I want to start a discussion about something

I want to talk.

I am guessing many of you know where I am going with this.

Lets start a talk.

the last thing you would do is post on a forum populated by bored malcontents and gossip mongers.

It's pretty clear what the OP is seeking and why he is here..no?

I think you have sold poor CEO members short with your description. They are fine and worthy citizens that have the uncanny ability to separate the wheat from the chaff/see the forest from the trees, separate an illogical story into its component bits, put them under a microscope, splice and dice if necessary, analyse to death and reassemble to reach a well informed robust conclusion that is beyond rapproach.

FREDY321 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:16 am I love Cambodia. The best thing they could do is kick out all the Americans.

Captain wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 11:13 am why is it best to kick all Americans out of Cambodia?

Just most of them... When I was still a novice here I thought the same way, after-all the war they lost in Vietnam resulted in thousands of deaths in Cambodia, contributed to the rise of the Khmer Rouge, not to mention the "secret bombings" However, over time you will come to find that many American's aren't that proud to be associated with their country. I'm all for kicking out the Christians though who are planting their nonsense in to the minds of Buddhists. I will say that the majority of American's behave much better in their own country than they do when travelling, a sort of self entitled attitude. And the women, well, they are mostly loud and fat.

Can’t wait for GM to get on Wi-Fi in Niue and tackle this one. Meantime this taxi driver also wants to talk.

< < < [Mod edit: that's not working. Fixed below ]

I just wish they would stop tuning Radio Free Asia to my fillings.

Captain wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 11:13 am
why is it best to kick all Americans out of Cambodia?

to make room for more PRCs

An awful lot of cynicism here, and seems perhaps some peripheral awareness to something that is over my head. Why cannot the op be taken at face value and constructive questions be asked so that civil discourse can be had?

It seems a bit of a sorry tale, if anything is to be made of it. Either its true, or the OP is delusional. Either way that's nothing to make fun of a person for.

RickyBobby wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:28 am An awful lot of cynicism here, and seems perhaps some peripheral awareness to something that is over my head. Why cannot the op be taken at face value and constructive questions be asked so that civil discourse can be had?

It seems a bit of a sorry tale, if anything is to be made of it. Either its true, or the OP is delusional. Either way that's nothing to make fun of a person for.

Probably because they made a statement but have just left it hanging...... even you have nor received an answer.

"Re: FORMER USA COP WANTS TO TALK...
Post by RickyBobby » Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:51 am

Do you only wish to engage people that know what you're talking about, or would you care to tell us that have no clue some more details?

With so many socks and trolling on here, unless you explain and give some context to statements like theirs then it will be treated with disdain.