User:Crouton13/sandbox

UPDATING PENALTIES & FORMS OF SURVEILLANCE:

Voice to skull. Microwave torture. Mind control. Implantation.

SOURCES I AM USING:

https://irmaetos.org/synopsis-of-organized-stalking-electronic-harassment-and-electronic-torture/

https://targetedindividualscanada.com/2010/07/02/how-electronic-harassment/

RESEARCHING:

WHO ARE THE VICTIMS ?

WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS ?

WHAT ARE THE SUPPORT/TREATMENT OPTIONS?

EDITED / UPDATED SECTIONS IN BOLD :

Electronic harassment

Electronic harassment, electromagnetic torture, or psychotronic torture is a conspiracy theory that government agents make use of electromagnetic radiation (such as the microwave auditory effect), radar, and surveillance techniques to transmit sounds and thoughts into people's heads, affect people's bodies, and harass people. Individuals who claim to experience this call themselves "targeted individuals" ("TIs") . They claim they are victims of gang stalking and many have joined support and advocacy groups.

Multiple medical professionals have evaluated that these experiences are hallucinations; the result of delusional disorders or psychosis, the same sources from which arise religious delusions, accounts of alien abductions, and beliefs in visitations from dead relatives. It can be difficult to persuade people who experience them that their belief in an external influence is delusional.

Experiences

The experiences of victims of electronic harassment—who identify themselves as "targeted individuals" or "T.I.s"—vary, ranging from visual or auditory distortions to intense physical sensations. Victims have reported forced speech and movements, debilitating mental acuity, burning sensations, and even the voices of other people inside their minds.

They have also described being under physical surveillance by one or more people. Many of these people act and function normally and included among them are people who are successful in their careers and lives otherwise, and who find these experiences confusing, upsetting, and sometimes shameful, but entirely real. They use news stories, military journals, and declassified national security documents to support their allegations that governments have developed technology that can send voices into people's heads and cause them to feel things. The New York Times estimated that there are more than 10,000 people who self-identify as targeted individuals.

Psychologist Lorraine Sheridan co-authored a study of gang-stalking in the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology. According to Sheridan, "One has to think of the T.I. phenomenon in terms of people with paranoid symptoms who have hit upon the gang-stalking idea as an explanation of what is happening to them". Mental health professionals say that T.I.s can experience hallucinations and their explanations of being targeted or harassed arise from delusional disorders or psychosis. Yale psychiatry professor Ralph Hoffman states that people often ascribe voices in their heads to external sources such as government harassment, God, or dead relatives, and it can be difficult to persuade these individuals that their belief in an external influence is delusional. Other experts compare these stories to accounts of alien abductions.

Press accounts have documented individuals who apparently believed they were victims of electronic harassment, and in some cases persuaded courts to agree. In 2008, James Walbert went to court claiming that his former business associate had threatened him with "jolts of radiation" after a disagreement, and later claimed feeling symptoms such as electric shock sensations and hearing strange sounds in his ears. The court decided to issue an order banning "electronic means" to further harrass Walbert.

Support and advocacy communities

Extensive online support networks and websites exist and are maintained by victims of mind control. Psychiatry specialist Dr. Alan Drucker of Palm Springs, CA identified evidence of delusional disorders on many of these websites, and psychologists agree that these platforms negatively reinforce collective delusions, as they are built around "normalizing an abnormal experience" that could potentially be the result of a serious illness. According to psychologist Dr. Lorraine Sheridan, the absence of counter-information creates a harmful "closed ideology echo chamber" for T.I.s. Other specialists argue that the ability to openly share common mental troubles could potentially serve as a form of group cognitive therapy and community for online users.

In a British study conducted by Vaughan Bell in 2006, independent psychiatrists evaluated online mind-control accounts to determine the presence of psychosis in the poster, which resulted in the possible diagnosis of schizophrenia. Psychologists have identified many examples of people reporting "mind control experiences" (MCEs) on self-published web pages that are "highly likely to be influenced by delusional beliefs." Common themes include "bad guys" using "psychotronics" and "microwaves," frequent mentioning of the CIA's MKULTRA project and frequent citing of a scientific paper entitled "Human auditory system response to modulated electromagnetic energy."

Some people who describe themselves as undergoing electronic harassment have organized campaigns to stop the use of alleged psychotronic and other mind control weapons. These campaigns have received some support from public figures, including former U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who included a provision banning "psychotronic weapons" in a 2001 bill that was later dropped, and former Missouri State Representative Jim Guest.