I WILL NOT BECOME ANY PERSON’S TURKEY.

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INTEGRITY IS VITAL IF YOU WANT TO EXERT INFLUENCE IN YOUR PERSONAL OR BUSINESS LIFE

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Many years ago I attended a seminar and heard the following story told by one of the lecturers. He told us a long-winded story about how he visited a farm where they breed and feed turkeys for the table. He apparently overheard two turkeys chatting about how much they loved and cherished the life on the farm. One mentioned how he enjoyed the wonderful clean mountain air while the other found the food and facilities outstanding. They also expressed their love and admiration for the farmer and the people that worked in their pens. There was one puzzling aspect about the life in this turkey “heaven” that worried one of the turkeys slightly. One day while they were busy feeding on the abundance of food available he shared the following with one of his fellow turkey friends. He said, “I hope that you will not think less of me or think that I am ungrateful, but I find it difficult to figure out why the farmer is so good to us.” “He is always there for us”. “When one of us feel sick he is quickly taken to the vet. He generally goes out of his way to make our stay here on the farm a wonderful experience.” “The farmer is almost to good to be true”, he mumbled as an after thought. “I have a feeling that there is something seriously wrong, but I am unable to lay my finger on it.”

 

The reason why I am sharing this story with you is because there are lots of people that use our vulnerability and their influence, position and status in a similar manner. They feed us with BS; they are also often too good to be true, just like the farmer in the story. They often in a heartless manner set us up for the slaughter. They set us up and make us vulnerable by using help, lunches, support and favours as their tools.  for these unscrupulous operators (farmer).

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I WILL NOT BECOME ANY PERSON’S TURKEY. I WILL NOT ALLOW UNSCRUPULOUS PEOPLE (FARMERS) TO SET ME UP FOR FAILURE

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If you want to really exert a strong influence over people, you will have to learn the value of real integrity and sincerity. If I am allowed to select only one element that provided you with strong influence over others I will select unconditional integrity. If you think that you can use the fake sincerity used by the turkey farmer in our story you are setting yourself up for failure. Fake sincerity only provides you with short-term results. You might catch a few suckers now and then, but in the long-term, you will become a victim of your own deviousness. Once you become known as a “turkey farmer”, you might as well move to another province or country. Your reputation as turkey farmer will spread like wild fire and people will avoid you like the plague.

 

Influence built on sincerity and integrity is lasting. If you become known, as a person of your word people will stand in line to do business with you. Just watch the Jerry Springer show if you want to see the result of insincere, friendships and relationship. You will night after night see how people that have been fed with BS by an insincere partner (turkey farmer) destroy the hopes and dreams of girlfriends and lovers (turkeys). It is almost pathetic to see how streams of vulnerable people come to their final emotional demise on this show. If you want to build a strong long-term influence base, sincere integrity will get you there every time.

Rene

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Do one in five adults/United States experiences a mental disorder each year?

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According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), approximately one in five adults in the United States experiences a mental disorder each year.

While the most common mental disorders include anxiety and occasional bouts of depression, many individuals face lesser-known challenges, including the following seven conditions.

1. TRICHOTILLOMANIA

Trichotillomania is a disorder that causes an irresistible urge to pull out one’s hair, eyelashes and eyebrows. There is some evidence that the disorder may be genetic, that hair-pulling episodes may be triggered by anxiety, and that it often occurs more frequently in people diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

In rare cases, people with trichotillomania eat the hair, which often results in the development of hairballs in the intestinal tract. One such hairball is on display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC. The hairball, removed successfully from the stomach of a 12-year-old girl, formed over the course of six years and is on display in the museum’s Human Body / Human Being exhibit.

2. ALICE IN WONDERLAND SYNDROME, OR TODD SYNDROME

Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS), or Todd syndrome, is a neurologic condition that alters and distorts a person’s perception of objects. Discovered in 1955 by Dr. John Todd, AIWS was given its name primarily because the illness resembles the events Alice experienced in Lewis Carroll’s novel by the same name.

Typically sufferers perceive objects as if they were looking at the world “through the wrong end of a telescope,” according to the Medical Journal of Psychiatry. In some cases, sufferers misperceive sizes of parts of the body, particularly the head and the hands. Rather than being caused by a deficiency of the eye, the disorder results from the brain misinterpreting the information received by the eyes.

Interestingly enough, it is reported that Lewis Carroll suffered from severe migraines and Lilliputian hallucinations, a condition that causes objects and people to appear smaller than they actually are. This illness is known to affect children aged between five and 10 and is estimated to occur in about 10-20% of the population.

3. ALIEN HAND SYNDROME

Alien hand syndrome is a disorder that involves the belief that one’s hand does not belong to oneself and that it has its own life. While sufferers perceive their hand as connected to their body, they are convinced that the hand is acting autonomously and possesses a will of its own.

In severe cases, sufferers will personify the limb, assigning a name to it. According to the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, anxiety often arises when patients become concerned that the rogue hand may exhibit inappropriate behavior.

The disorder often occurs in stroke patients, particularly those with damage to the corpus callosum, which connects the two cerebral hemispheres of the brain. While the condition is psychologically debilitating, fewer than 50 cases of the syndrome have ever been reported.

4. JERUSALEM SYNDROME

Jerusalem syndrome is a disorder that affects visitors to the holy city of Jerusalem. Overwhelmed by the city’s sacred religiosity, sufferers experience intense religious psychosis and religious-themed delusions.

The disorder commonly occurs among overly religious individuals who have a history of mental illness. In some cases female sufferers become convinced they are impregnated with Jesus Christ, while others proclaim themselves to be major figures from the Bible, even the Messiah himself.

In 2000, Israeli psychiatrists reported that, between 1980 and 1993, 1,200 tourists had been admitted to the city’s Kfar Shaul Mental Health Centre with “severe, Jerusalem-generated mental problems.” In fact, the condition has become so common that Jerusalem police and medical professionals have specific special procedures for coping with tourists who experience the disorder. Interestingly the condition is not restricted to any religion or denomination and seems to dissipate within a few weeks after the individual has left the city.

5. CAPGRAS SYNDROME

Named after a French psychiatrist, Capgras syndrome is a rare delusional misidentification syndrome characterized by a person’s delusional belief that an acquaintance, spouse or family member has been replaced by a replica. Though the delusion typically involves human replicas, rare cases can involve pets as well as personal possessions.

In some cases the delusion will begin with one family member before gradually extending to other members of the family. Sufferers often feel anger toward the perceived imposter as well as the individuals believed responsible for replacing the loved one.

Explanations proposed by scientists consistently theorize that the disorder results when sufferers experience a disconnect between the visual face recognition area in the right temporal lobe and the area of the brain that provides the emotional response to that face. Though Capgras syndrome is not a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis, it occurs most often in patients with schizophrenia and has also been reported in patients with epilepsy, traumatic brain injuries and dementia.

6. DIOGENES SYNDROME

Named after the Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope, Diogenes syndrome is a senile squalor syndrome characterized by social withdrawal, hoarding of garbage or animals, apathy, social withdrawal, extreme self-neglect and a lack of personal hygiene.

Sufferers often live on their own in severe domestic squalor and unsanitary conditions, and they often prefer solitude, frequently becoming agitated when closely scrutinized or observed. Common primarily among the elderly and associated with progressive dementia, the disorder often occurs as a reaction to a particularly stressful event (such as death of a loved one).

Unfortunately, sufferers often refuse help from others, and the severe neglect that results from the disorder often causes physical and mental breakdown. Though the syndrome was not included separately in the latest (fifth) edition of the DSM, nearly 50% of sufferers die within five years of onset.

7. APOTEMNOPHILIA

Often referred to as body integrity identity disorder, apotemnophilia is a neurologic disorder that causes a person to experience an overwhelming urge to amputate healthy parts of one’s body.

In most cases, sufferers become preoccupied with an idealized notion of themselves without a particular limb. In severe cases, sufferers search for surgeons to perform an amputation. When they are unsuccessful finding a surgeon who will agree, they often injure or harm the limb to force emergency amputation.

One particularly disturbing aspect surrounding this disorder is a recent phenomenon concerning doctors who theorize that amputating the limb may benefit the sufferer. In 2000 Robert Smith, a surgeon at Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary in Scotland amputated the legs of two patients at their request, asserting that the patients were happier once the legs were removed. “It was the most satisfying operation I have ever performed,” Smith said during a news conference. “I have no doubt that what I was doing was the correct thing for those patients.” end

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By Chris Tusa / Crixeo.com