CONFESSIONS OF AN ALIEN ABDUCTEE Channel 4 9pm

[SoleSource]

this should cheer me up

[Lurleene]

Crikey, no wonder his 'earth wife' doesn't want to be filmed. She should start a thread in AIBU.

'My husband is shagging an alien. I don't like it but he says it's not cheating when it's with an alien. I would like him to stop AIBU?'

[blueemerald]

Kentucky!

[weirdthing]

I'm too scared to eat KFC ever again...

[LizzieVereker]

I'm starting to wonder if it's a spoof now...

[Chickengirl]

I can't decide if it's a spoof either.

[VitoCorleone]

That camera man is making me laugh.

And is that woman hiding an alien in her hair??

[MrsMeg]

If these people were talking instead about an encounter with god, then most people wouldn't think they were nutters.

The fact that an alien encounter is more plausible is besides the point I suppose

[Oldandcobwebby]

Quite so, Mrs Meg.

[VitoCorleone]

I would still think they are nutters

[starsandunicorns]

Am watching it now on plus one omg! Going to record it to watch with dp on weekend

[SoleSource]

I'm watching now on plus 1

DNA testing for Alien DNA hmmmm

[scottishmummy]

sweet Jesus.the aliens could pick anyone,barack,notaries of science,literature
but no they chose that lot
hmmmm

[SoleSource]

LOL Scottish

never a truer word written

[FruOla]

I watched it last night (Thurs) SNORTING MY SILLY HEAD OFF during the entire programme ... until it got to the last 5 minutes when they described the earlier history of the people who were featured.

Without 'spoiling' the programme to those who haven't watched it yet, I could see why those people were using 'alien abduction' as a way of escapism - even though they genuinely believed the 'alien' aspect of their lives.

I loved the 'bonkers' aspect of it though

[AmadeusRocks]

All mentally ill IMO - didn't watch it all, it bored me.

[scottishmummy]

no,possession of a bizarre belief doesn't mentally ill

[FruOla]

I agree with scottishmummy, those people didn't have to be/don't appear to be mentally ill (but how would we know?) - they just had some rather bizarre beliefs which, I think, were connected to other aspects of their lives.

[McBalls]

I thought mental illness of some sort was fairly likely actually. Of course possession of bizarre belief does not = MH issues.
Believing aliens exist is a bizarre belief but believing you are visited/abducted/experimented on by aliens is delusional. Huge difference.

[scottishmummy]

no.posssesion of views that are factually incorrect doesn't= mh issues.at all
eg plenty folk believe in mediums/spirituality but aren't classified mentally ill
it's the nature and degree,impact of beliefs upon behaviour/mood that determine if mental illness

[McBalls]

Um...yes that's what I said.
Believing in aliens does not indicate mental illness but fully believing that you interact with aliens probably does.