which is most likely behind a lot of people's attraction to Big Sugar Daddy who will protect them from evil, i.e. TFG.

True paranoia is quite different, it's the flip side to some sort of grandiosity. I knew one guy who got a small inheritance and absolutely knew his family was breaking into the hospital kitchen and poisoning his food. Another one knew he was getting messages in his sleep and had to keep moving, alerting the CIA with tinfoil wrapped messages when he could afford the stamps. Paranoisd delusions are quite specific, while free floating anxiety is not, it's a "bad feeling" looking for a rational target.

(In the former case I came up with a work around to get some nutrition into the poor guy and when he felt better physically, the docs finally got through to him that he needed some mental health care, and he signed himself in for that. In the latter case, it's someone I've known for 50 years and when I get tapped to contribute to bail money, I do. He's all bark and no bite)

. . . . when I open one of my books at a random place and something just jumps out and screams, "Post me! I'll spark a discussion! You'll see!"



I'm guessing it's been 10 years or more since I read this one, and it's not in my area of - cough, cough - expertise.

But we do pull technical terms out of their professional contexts and use them, usually in error to one degree or another, in common parlance. It's good to be reminded that just because we're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get us. It probably means we aren't paranoid after all.

TBH, they didn't know squat back in 1965. It was only a year later that I was handed a set of keys in a mental hospital and turned loose in an intake facility, so while some of the old antipsychotic drugs had come out, nobody knew quite yow they worked and were totally befogged when it came to brain structures and chemistry.

That job gave me my #1 rule for any interpersonal interaction: "Never argue with a crazy person." You'd be amazed by how much aggravation, frustration, and occasional danger that rule has extricated me from.

Like that 1905 Chicago Daily News Almanac. You can pick up the oddest yet interesting tidbits. I have a manual for nurses treating the insane, (c) 1886. Another on criminal sociology from about the same period. SEX AND SOCIETY: STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX (c) 1907. All kinds of good stuff. Outdated? Sure. But still good material for discussion. . . . or laughs.

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You need eyes in the back of your head. Question every inclination in every direction, still you can get into adverse conditions rapidly.

I'm really only watching INTC, UBER, DIS, ABT, and NKE. These all have potential to drop another $4-10 as the fall correction and budget impasse bites. Disney and Uber in particular would be good long term plays.