Any ideas on overcoming defeatist thinking?
When you are completely, utterly, hopelessly defeated? Broken on the wheel of life? Old, broken, busted?
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shareIf I told you what's happened, you would think I needed different medications or to be institutionalized. I've been hospitalized for mental health and "delusional thinking" three times for short stays. That's one of the biggest reasons I'm completely fucked.
I know my brain isn't the entire problem, though. Nothing I can do. There are people in power who are capable of anything, of course. Anything they think they can get away with.
And I'm not only talking about corporate leaders and people inside three letter organizations. When I was briefly part of a big insurance company, privacy was not taken very seriously. Even one of our trainers would look up celebrities and other people for a little entertainment. I'm not sure what any of them did with what they learned. Maybe they just posted about it on social media.
It does make me wonder what goes on in companies like Amazon, which has millions of gadgets out there that are always listening, sometimes recording, sometimes people listening to those recordings for "quality control purposes". I've seen how people can take advantage that gives them any kind of power. I'll bet a lot of these tech company employees find themselves tempted to . Maybe even use what they learn against someone who they take a dislike to. They could get all kinds of embarrassing and compromising information. They could manipulate what someone sees online, like Amazon recommendations or search results. Even a little clique of lower level employees in a tech company like Amazon could have access to a lot, if they didn't care about following policies and laws. If they were also spying on the people in that persons life, they could turn them against that person as well. Maybe even bring blackmail into it and push them to do some nasty things to said person.
See, it's hard to really explain, without sounding like i'm raving. I'm not even sure what's going on, just have suspicions. I certainly don't have any real evidence to show anyone.
Just to clarify; someone has something on you and is threatening to use it against you?
"There are people in power who are capable of anything, of course. Anything they think they can get away with"
I urged you to lay off all those prank phone calls to Tom Cruise's house awhile back, Zar. You apparently chose to ignore me
1. Feeling defeated... It is never to late to change the direction of your life. Work on having realistic achievable goals, and focus on the small steps needed to make progress. Let go of the things that are impossible or unrealistic. What do you want from life?
2. Worrying about people abusing their power and/or breaking privacy are classic delusions. But just because they are likely to be delusions for you, doesn't mean that it also doesn't frequently happen in the modern world. But, short of politically campaigning for tightening rules over such issues, there is not much you can do. Do not become a vigilante. Try to be a paragon of virtue, display to others that just because some people are shitheads it doesn't mean that everyone has to be pulled down to their level.
3. Delusions... TAKE YOUR MEDS! (and I don't mean that in a nasty way). Work towards monitoring your thought patterns. Concentrate on the things that are real: touch grass, listen to music, do something artistic. And as we are on a movie forum, if you need some inspiration of someone who didn't let his delusions control him, go watch A Beautiful Mind (as long as it won't worsen your paranoid thoughts).
Man, this is good stuff. You’ve got to post more.
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