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20 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

I have the exact same symptoms any time my extensions are due. When i leave thailand to another country, its gone like snow with full sun.

 

why? Because all uncertain and potential issues are due to TH.

 

i know many who have same.

A companion to high anxiety is OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder. People with OCD do not like "change", and we don't function well in an environment where there is total chaos around us. This country is full of uncertainly, inconsistency and out and out lawlessness. Nobody has any respect for rules and regulation and laws, and nothing ever goes as planned. Murphy's Law is alive and thriving in Thailand....namely, "if anything can go wrong, it will"! Anytime I tackle a task of any sort, I always have a Plan A, B and C because I know that when I'm dealing with people that live in a bubble and don't understand critical thinking, reason or logic, then my plans are destined to be thwarted.

There is also a spiritual component to the anxiety caused by living here in the Land of Scams. Less than 5% of the population claim to be Christians, and most of those believe in a Heinz 57 type of Christianity that is laced with ancestor worship, superstition, belief in ghosts and Animism. By in large most of the population have "hearts of stone", cannot be trusted and we are surrounded on all sides by evil which can affect our peace from day to day. 

I too recently flew out of Thailand for a two-week vacation in the US, and as soon as I boarded that plane, the anxiety left me as if a millstone had been taken from around my neck. 

31 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

If, and only if, you believe in God, do you believe God to be trustworthy?

 

Unfortunately this thread has become populated by posters that never learned to read.

The truth is that there are so few "believers in God" out there, and that's why this thread is going nowhere. The mockers have taken over, and that's what they do. They scorn the name of Jesus, and they just can't help themselves. 

Wow, where do I begin? I could write a book on this subject, but then again, one has already been written, and it is called the Word of God. It’s God’s instruction manual for how we are to live out our lives on earth as best we can with the help of the Holy Spirit until the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yes, God can be trusted to fulfill all of His promises, but there is one caveat….”Ye must be born again”! Are you simply practicing “religion”, or do you have a connection to God by way of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Have you experienced the “new birth” by having received Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior and subsequently filled with the Holy Spirit? If so, then all three persons of the Godhead have taken up residence in your heart, and you can trust Them to work everything for your good and for Their Glory. If the answer is a resounding “no”, then your prayers don’t make it past the ceiling and “the wrath of God abides on you”.

God has walked with me for the past 35 years, and He has always been faithful and trustworthy. He doesn’t always answer my prayers the way that I expect Him to, and there have been times when I have questioned his trustworthiness; however, in retrospect I can look back and see that He did what He thought was best for me.

God knows the past, the present and the future, and He operates in a dimension that we know little about. Certainly, He can direct our lives much better than we can in our own strength. It is impossible to please God without faith, and the Bible defines faith as “the substance of things hoped for…the evidence of things not seen”. Your faith is a gift from God, and it is not something that you have conjured up in your own heart and mind, and “faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

So, in summation, stay in the Word of God daily, and increase your faith. Stay in the saddle and hold on!!! Life is a beautiful journey, and as a Christian your destiny is Heaven and perfection in Christ Jesus our Lord. God Bless You!

The ones writing here that the tiles are never a problem for them are probably just not at the age where their balance is off, and they don't have pain in their legs which keeps one from being able to stabilize quickly on slippery tiles. It happens to me all the time at 75 years of age. I also despise seeing a grown man wearing flip-flops or sports shoes, and I like to dress up and wear a traditional dress shoe with socks which is an accident waiting to happen in Thailand on all the tile floors. 

Far more dangerous are the bathrooms in hotels where there are no safety bars, and the tiles are very slippery in showers and even worse in a bathtub. I never enter either without wearing shower shoes to give me a good gripping, and even then, it's still dangerous without the handrails. I would like to see statistics on how many people are injured, maimed and killed by slippery tiles and bathtubs in Thailand. The figures have to be astronomical, and nothing every changes and no improvements are every made to make it safer. It should be a priority with the Ministry of Health to make the public safe by having tighter restrictions in commercial buildings and homes.  

That's not Thaksin's photo! It's Jack Ma, CEO and founder of Alibaba, with more hair painted on. 

15 hours ago, Steven55 said:

Farang (US citizen) and Thai lady want to divorce. Simple divorce, no assets money to share.
He recently got a new passport. Now, it seems that the District Office in Pattaya
demands that this new passport needs to be certified by the US Embassy and the Thai consul.
IMO, a passport is a certified document BY DEFINITION!
Anyone heard about this? Is this certification really needed?
(Immigration accepted this passport when he extended his stay for 1 year...)

When the US Embassy renews a passport, they attach a formal letter on the Embassy stationary to say that a new passport has been issued and replaces the old passport number. This should be sufficient, but then again, the Amphur may require a translation of that letter into Thai. My guess is something is lost in the translation of this request. Makes no sense otherwise!

And every ounce of this bizarre, abnormal, gangster style behavior....from the twerking to the gold teeth.....was imported from the Sodom and Gomorrah of the world, the USA.  We used to be known for the Christian Missionaries that we sent to the world, but now the world is sending Missionaries to the US to turn us back to God and away from our lascivious lifestyles.

13 hours ago, PPMMUU said:

There are several first-generation antihistamines that have sleepiness as a side effect. Personally, I find the sleep induced by these medications is not fulfilling. However, you may try them, provided that the medication does not interfere with other medication. It is impossible for anyone to tell if there is any interference if you cannot disclose the other medication.

Just type all your meds in this site and do an interaction check. I have never seen a pharmacy do this, and it's absolutely necessary if one is mixing meds. Some of the local meds are not in their data base because they only include drugs that are FDA approved; however, one can Google the local drug and find an equivalent brand drug from the USA to enter into the interaction checker. 

https://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html

With the Thais it's all about "monkey see...monkey do". As long as the elites on TV are wearing masks, the peasants wouldn't dare shed the mask and insult the better judgement of those in authority. When the ruling class decides it's time to give up masking, the masses will follow suit. Obedience to authority always trumps common sense, critical thinking and following the science.

12 hours ago, bignok said:

Not really but I notice it more in the morning. At night I enjoy life. Mornings I don't have much interest in anything. Perhaps I'm just a night person.

Bignok, if "at night I enjoy life" means that you are drinking alcohol, then that may be your problem. I lived that way for years in the Philippines, and I was always depressed and disinterested the morning after a night out. Booze will screw you up in more ways than one, so give it up. It may take a while to leave it behind, but life will be so much more amazing without it. 

I use the government's Military Hospital in Udon Thani and only pay 50 Baht to see a doctor. The meds from their pharmacy are dirt cheap, and no other hospital charges are levied. The private hospitals have recently raised their fee to 200 Baht for the nurse to check your blood pressure and weight you, but there is no such fee at the Military Hospital. 

I tried using online forms for my extension of stay in Udon Thani, and they rejected all of the forms and I had to start all over again. Best to drop by Immigration and pick up copies of the forms which they have printed in their office. 

If your Thai wife ITIN is about to, or has, expired, you should have received a notification of the same with complete instructions on how to renew. 

When I purchased our home in 2011, the developer's brochure showed the floor plan of 145 square meters. Upon measuring myself, I discovered that this included the front and back porches and the car garage which are not finished spaces and certainly not livable area. In the US a home's square footage in an appraisal pertains only to the livable area. Therefore, I felt terribly misled by the developer; but, now I understand that it's just another rip-off ploy that happens every day all over Thailand. 

I purchased a new car in 2021, and the staff refused to give me a copy of the purchase agreement after I presented them with a cashier's check for the purchase. After arguing with the clerk, she finally allowed me to take a photo of it. I could never get an explanation out of her.  TIT!!!!

Joint Bank Account Rules on Death:

When a joint account is created, it's usually set up as "Joint With Rights of Survivorship" (JWORS). This means that, upon the death of one account holder, the assets are transferred to the surviving account holder.

Rights of Survivorship: 

Most accounts carry automatic rights of survivorship, but it's a good idea to check with your financial institution to ensure that this is the case for your joint account. You may have to sign additional documents to indicate that this is what you want.

The surviving owner would continue to have full access to the money even if the co-owner of the joint checking account were to die, as long as the account carries these rights. 

It is my understanding that joint accounts in Thailand DO NOT have "Rights of Survivorship" which means that in the absence of a Last Will and Testament, under Thai inheritance laws 

there are 6 classes of statutory heirs, and they are entitled to inherit in the following order:

descendants

parents

brothers and sisters of full blood

brothers and sisters of half blood

grandparents

uncles and aunts

The surviving spouse is a statutory heir, subject to the special provisions of Section 1635 Civil and Commercial Code.

Therefore, I would strongly suggest that you check with the widow's bank to see if the joint account has Rights of Survivorship. It not, then that is the problem. However, I seriously doubt that any bank employee, including the manager, would have a clue what you are talking about. You'd better ask to speak with the bank's attorney. There is always one on call, so don't let them tell you otherwise.