Romance scams

I became aware of this town some years ago.
I’m not for one moment defending the scum that scam people.
But they aren’t all bad people.
Watch this video and learn how some innocent people end up in these scam centres.
www.google.com/search?q=thousands+of+prisoners+working+in+scam+town+myanmar&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:795fddee,vid:dRbYZZa1UX4,st:0

RosieandherMaw

^Loneliness is a mental health issue^

I don’t agree.
Loneliness is sad, loneliness is to be sympathised with but loneliness is also something we can all feel at different times in our lives and for different reasons, but to include it in “mental
health issues” cheapens true mental health issues like Depression.

I agree.

Because of such perceptions, real mental health illnesses are at risk of being devalued.

Loneliness is not a mental health issue. To suggest it is, diminishes serious mh issues such as psychosis, schizophrenia, clinical anxiety/depression. These mh problems are similar to physical health diagnosis. They need medical intervention, including drug therapy.
Loneliness is a feeling, experienced by many people because of circumstances. Inevitably, if the lonely individual is unable or unwilling to make changes to try and ease their situation, they may get depressed or anxious.

Labelling ordinary feelings as mental health issues needs to stop

Iam64
Labelling ordinary feelings as mental health issues needs to stop.

Hear, hear!

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Iam64
Labelling ordinary feelings as mental health issues needs to stop.

Hear, hear!

Hear hear again!

👏👏 spot on Rosie and all.

Hear hear again!

👏👏👏

I've had a call in the last couple of years about my Amazon Prime account, I let them ramble on, played the doddery old lady and eventually, when I had wasted a lot of his time, asked him to send me a prawn curry and a couple of naans, he quickly hung up.

It's horribly unbelievable when the target is a widow whose late husband apparently worked his socks off to provide AND leave a comfortable amount in the bank so that his wife won't have any financial worries if he goes first.

Then she hands the lot over to a 4 star general/oil rig worker/bank executive/heart surgeon she's fallen for online, never met, never will meet and is blanked when she admits she has no more money.

It's a betrayal of her husband's memory and his efforts to make her future secure when he passed away.

Iam64

To add, I’m often surprised at offence taken in response to a fairly innocuous comment, but we are all different.

So am I 😏