Paranoid people

There are a few threads where I mention a friend of mine it's all the same person. He is by and far THE MOST PARANOID person I know He thinks the following

-The FBI is spying on him through Facebook and because he supports Ron Paul he's on some sort of list.
-Microsoft is spying on us right now through Windows and Kinect and sharing that info with the Government
-Japan is unsafe and full of radiation
- The CIA runs the media
-The World Really is ending next year

That's just off the top of my head. Seriously I've never met somebody so paranoid. I thought I was paranoid, I don't trust anyone but he takes the cake, We didn't speak for a good 3 years because he was so crazy, but he's calmed down since then....

Feel free to talk about paranoid loonies you know but I don't think they top Old Slim.

 

-The FBI is spying on him through Facebook and because he supports Ron Paul he's on some sort of list.

I wouldn't doubt the FBI would rely heavily on Facebook as an investigative tool, usually lazy local police and reporters do that. Unless he joins some crazy cult or other questionable circles, no one that's not a friend will watch him. LOL

-Microsoft is spying on us right now through Windows and Kinect and sharing that info with the Government

As far as I know, the only hidden hooks for Windows (and Intel) have to do with DRM. Something the Government doesn't put on it's high priority list.

-Japan is unsafe and full of radiation

Remind him of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan recovered pretty well.

- The CIA runs the media

Nope, that would probably be control freaks.

-The World Really is ending next year

It's got to end some time, but I really doubt anyone living would know when.

 

He should be paranoid - it is all true.

 

Freemasons run the country

 

He should be more worried about Facebook and Google, because they actually are spying on you.

 

Facebook thinks I live in Japan.

They know jack and shit about me.

 

I have 1 word for your friend:


CHILL ...



Whatever happens tomorrow or the next year, it doesn't sound like anything he does will change his fate if all of that stuff is true. :shrug:

So, chill.

 

Seriously, it sounds like your friend may have some deeper issues and need some sort of help.

 

Oh he does. But I won't divulge in case he ever joins this forums

His theorys about saving video games are just as bat shit crazy as his paranoia

He wants Nintendo to Buy Sega

 

paranoid schizophrenia has a high chance of being terminal, if your friend doesn't get help. my dad had it and almost died from it. your friend needs to see a doctor before it gets worse. at best he will end up a vegrant or drug addict, at worse, he could die or end up takeing others with him. my dad discribed it as a dream that perpetualtes itself. sometimes you dont know what is real or fake. when it gets real bad is when the people that they love and care about arent trusted by them. then there isnt much you can do. no shit seriousness talking here.

 

Live life and enjoy it. Who gives a shit what happens.

 

I just thought it was Slim being Slim. He does talk about having visions and he also has major migranes but he wasn't diagnosed with anything beyond migraines.

As some here know I have a background in Psychology and paranoia is a symptom of many things, autism, Anxiety disorders, Schizophonia which if he had it he probably would have known by now since he's in his late 20s, Personality disorders and delusional disorders.

He seems to function fine and has average to above average intelligence, though his family history does indicate what I will (out of respect for his privacy and I probably over stepped bounds just by posting what he's told me) that there might be issues there.

Edit- Ok I just talked to him. flat out told him I think he's paranoid he went on a government speil. I just let him and eventually deduced he has an anxiety disorder.

 

You're friend need to smoke. Once that chemical called "fuck it" ( in other words T.H.C) enters his lungs ,he'll loosen. Remember there is no such thing as a bad idea to someone who's high.

 

He does smoke pot

 

Shit he does have problems .

 

Yeah, I'd say if he really believes those things, it's probably part of some mental illness. I went through a period when I believed stuff like that, but then I realized it was all a delusion (the medication helped).

 

It was hard to present to him.

But it was good practice If I'm going to do this for a living I need to be blunt with out it being a kick in the balls

 

I prefer to use probabilities to judge what is likely, unfortunately it isn't often positive.

However it is rarely paranoid, I need reasons to think the CIA runs the media. The FBI data mining Facebook? Probably, but I doubt they're doing too much with the vast majority of the data given how much there is of it.

Realistically I anticipate people lying to my face than telling me the truth because it is a white lie. Those annoy me greatly.

 

This being said, Media manipulation and mental programming through it do exist, not in a tinfoil hat kind of way, but in a reproduction of convenient values kind of way.

The powers that be are - in fact - interested in shaping public "values" and "opinions" through clever manipulations of language, and not-so-clever simplification of ideas; and this is the real role of the mass media in the current social stage.

Politics, Consumption, even everyday life aspirations and beliefs, are all strongly (but under the table) influenced by carefully crafted implicit messages in the media. Language, and thus, the ideas conveyed by language, is also shaped this way, to influence the masses.

 

I knew you'd say that.

I'm too bored to smack you with a barrage of insults though.