Editing Targeted Individuals (section)

==Examining the TI narrative==
{{cquote|I believe I've been under surveillance 24/7 for the last seven years, and I do receive these—at times—painful shocks to my body, they're like the- ''they shocked me in the testicles'', enough to make me flinch!|||Phil Marie, targeted individual<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blNIjwcnHwM YouTube: "''Wheel Of Freedom Show 8/10/15 "Targeted Individual" Phil lets it rip''"]</ref> and host of ''Wake Up America''<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RiZ4r-xZOsQ#t=67 YouTube: "''Wake Up America - 10/20/14 NSA Kirk Wiebe part 2''"]</ref>}}
Despite frenzied efforts from the TI movement to be taken seriously via [[Pseudoscience|the appearance of scientific pursuit]] and weaving in ''actual'' reasonable concerns (regarding the NSA and related issues vis-a-vis other government and corporate surveillance), the TI take on all of this is just tossed in as part of the [[word salad]] that is the crank TI narrative.

As with any movement not using established empirical methods for determining its fact base, the narrative given by different sub-groups and indeed various individual adherents often differ on fundamental points (as every TI is able, and even encouraged, to apply ''their'' particular viewpoint on the overarching context). Regardless,  TI narratives generally share the same fatal points which utterly fail at describing purported (non)events convincingly, or even plausibly. 

The below analyzed text is taken from typical summary of the TI experience from the ''Targeted Individuals United Association'':<ref name="Infowar" />

{{sbs|title=1|''Targeted Individuals United Association''|RationalWiki response}}

{{sbs|Psychiatrists have an easy ride with T.I.s 
|No health professional has an even remotely "easy ride" when dealing with any patient who is under the delusion that they are actively "being targeted" in some malignant way. 

The sheer amount of varying diagnostic criteria that the typical TI might have makes deciding the ''individual'' place of said TI in the {{wpl|Spectrum_disorder#Psychosis|paranoid-schizoid-delusional spectrum}} hard to nail down, ''especially'' as the symptoms of psychotic disorders can fluctuate in intensity and duration over time, and in response to external stimuli.  Similar to the manner in which a person with bipolar disorder can shift from manic to depressive states, a person with a psychotic disorder can alternate between lucid, clear thinking states and paranoid, delusional states of varying intensity.  These different states may persist over long periods, or may cycle rapidly.  This, along with the comorbidity of other psychiatric disorders common to the TI population, can make diagnosis and treatment very difficult.     

TIs' descriptions of mental health professionals tend to depict them as "emotionally predatory" in providing their expert opinion on these diagnostic issues, issues residing at the core of their professional scope of practice.}} 

{{sbs|The uncanny claims and weird explanations to a so-called "normal" or "stable" human being may obviously seem abnormally strange or weird but the joke in this is; [sic] ALL Psychiatrists know of or have some extensive knowledge regarding 'targeted individuals'. 
|TI's themselves, then, do not contest the ''weirdness'' and ''implausibility'' of their world view. They simply ride their bizarre conviction of what is going on instead of seeking professional treatment. The TI narrative also stands as a firm reminder that mental illness is not an indictment of the proponent's intelligence (unlike creationism); in fact the more {{wpl|Fantasy_prone_personality|fantasy prone}} spectra of mental illness are powerfully correlated with intelligence—and, indeed, with the popular conception of "genius". This also helps explain the sometimes quite sophisticated weave of absolute crank nonsense produced by TIs in their effort to vocalize what is often a condition of mental illness.

It is, of course, correct that all psychiatrists ''know of'', or have ''some'' extensive knowledge regarding, TI. You cannot attend even a ''weekend'' long seminar in psychiatry without at least ''touching'' upon the spectra of psychotic and delusional conditions that the TI movement is a product of.}}

{{sbs|We know this as initially The 'Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders' was created by Nazi Behavioral Scientists with the hopes of covering up the tests and the unwitting scientific experiments/studies to be conducted on human beings (now still conducted by the likes of Psychiatrists and Neural-Scientists)! 
|The ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'' was not created by "[[Nazi]] Behavioral Scientists". As it says right on the cover, it was created by the American Psychiatric Association, and it first came out in 1952. It is a little-known fact that America fought against the Nazis in World War II and that they were defeated in 1945. So unless all their psychiatrists fled to America and infiltrated the top ranks of the APA's committees, this is blatantly impossible.}}

{{sbs|MK Ultra Program; The roots of modern Mind Kontrol (New Phoenix Program, Project MEDUSA or Monark etc.) as we know it; straying from Nazi Germany camps during the second World War, now migrated all the way into the heart of the west i.e.; America's C.I.A, (often pronounced See-er), NSA and British Intelligence M.I.#5-6, SIS with their ([[HAARP]]) energy weapons developments. 
|[[Pseudohistory]] in full [[Gish gallop]]. 

Also, spelling "mind control" with a "K" is an unsophisticated attempt to make the TI mishmash of overstated tropes seem more serious and scary.}}

{{sbs|Experiments which are believed to have been originally started by the Communist Russia's KGB and other third World communist governments during the Cold War (Black Op factions of today) to control and slow-kill opposition covertly. Psychiatry was created to disguise these Mind Control programs, their Statistical manual alone has over 4 or 5 versions each time increasing the symptoms and diagnosis for illnesses such as; Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar, depression etc. 
|Absolute [[historical revisionist]] garbage. Psychiatry was not founded in response to mind control programs, Soviet or otherwise. The phrase "[[Vague|control and slow-kill opposition covertly]]" is incomprehensible, never mind in this given context of supposed "{{wpl|Black_operation|Black Op}} factions". 

Additionally, the expression "third world" makes no sense here, as the term {{wpl|Third_World|explicitly refers to}} neutral and non-aligned nations (which are often less-developed than the West), ''not'' to [[communist]] nations—during the [[Cold War]]. The USSR and Eastern Europe were the ''Second'' World, not the Third.}}

{{sbs|Theoretically this is labelling us ALL as mentally ill people, this ensures that ANYONE, (Target or not) can become a Victim; discredited and made a test guinea-pig for ease of Mind-control and drug experimentation'; there-upon they can introduce and forcibly implement the usage and consumption of 'so-called' Anti-depressants and 'Anti-Psychotic' type medications (which are merely submissive hallucinogenics containing harsh chemicals and mild LSDs—which i might add, have very damaging effects on our bodies and mind!). 
|"[[Poe's_Law|Harsh chemicals and mild LSDs]]".}}

{{sbs|DO NOT TAKE ANY MEDICATIONS UNLESS COMPLETELY NECESSARY! 
|The TI movement in a nutshell. And its danger to those of fragile mental or physical health is obvious.

Also, ''real'' doctors don't write [[Law_of_exclamation#Law_of_Exclamation|exclusively in allcaps]], kids.}}

{{sbs|Instead I suggest people take natural herbs and healthier alternatives i.e. [sic] St. John[']s Worts [sic], Ginseng, Green tea, Ginko biloboa [sic], Vitamins, Minerals and Amino-Acid supplements etc. These can be far more beneficial to the health of the anatomy and can adequately re-balance the mind of ANY humans or even animal regardless how extreme their supposed illness (should they have a genuine mental illness). 
|This is not how anything works.  A standard [[appeal to nature]].}}

{{sbs|I also recommend people refrain from watching to[o] much Television and Media propaganda or basing themselves amidst the company of negative peoples and troubling situations, also try to avoid recreational drugs and overdosing on alcohol consumption. Drugs and Alcohol can trigger imbalances in the brain and create an en-masse of unnatural emotions that can likely leave you feeling depressed, vulnerable, lethargic and/or easily manipulated and insecure. 
|Well ok, the establishment media ''is'' pretty much garbage. Nevertheless, in the TI context avoiding all news services and sensible, science-based articles on psychiatry and mental illness would not seem like an especially good idea here.}}

{{sbs|This Psychotronic Satellite harassment and constant influx of frequencies passing through all of our bodies daily can potentially strip the body of natural hormonal chemicals and substances needed for healthier living or can suppress the immune system to induce illness, so re-balancing is compulsory! 
|The crank term "psychotronic" is lifted from the [[pseudoscience]] field of [[parapsychology]]. Subscription to this term, as presented and meant by TIs, is regarded by experts as being symptomatic of literal [[delusion]].<ref name="Psy" /> Case in point: frequencies passing through our bodies ''don't'' strip us of hormones or anything else.}}