{"id":6068,"date":"2015-09-12T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T13:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afarangabroad.com\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2019-06-18T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T08:34:02","slug":"starting-a-new-life-in-thailand-long-term-psychological-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afarangabroad.com\/fr\/2015\/09\/starting-a-new-life-in-thailand-long-term-psychological-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Probl\u00e8mes psychologiques \u00e0 long terme en Tha\u00eflande"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks I&#8217;ve been contemplating whether I&#8217;m slowing going mentally insane <a href=\"https:\/\/afarangabroad.com\/fr\/2018\/05\/quand-quitter-la-thailande\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vivre en Tha\u00eflande<\/a>. I guess the fact that I am aware of myself contemplating the fact reduces the possibility somewhat. That&#8217;s still not reassuring though.<\/p>\n<p>I started getting these thoughts when my friends from England arrived a few weeks ago. I took them to Thermae, a freelancer <a href=\"https:\/\/afarangabroad.com\/fr\/2015\/03\/thai-hookers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pute tha\u00eflandaise<\/a> bar. All the girls inside are freelancers and come and go as they please. Freelancers stand near the wall in a line and must wait for a guy to approach them. They will never approach you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of weird place and I thought I&#8217;d show my mates as you don&#8217;t get this kind of stuff back home.<\/p>\n<p>As we entered the bar at 11pm on a creepy Sunday evening, the place was packed to the gills with girls, Japanese expats who don&#8217;t even lift and a few middle aged farangs in Hawaiian shirts.<\/p>\n<p>We got ourselves a beer each (110 baht) and took up a vantage point.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k26MHPFXD44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of my friends was a little taken back by the whole thing and said how crazy it was. I told him to me, this is totally normal. I said if I walked into <a href=\"https:\/\/afarangabroad.com\/fr\/2015\/01\/never-visit-soi-cowboy-nana-plaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nana Entertainment Plaza<\/a>, I&#8217;m pretty much expecting a <a href=\"https:\/\/afarangabroad.com\/fr\/ladyboys-a-phuket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ladyboy tha\u00eflandaise<\/a> to grab my hand, arm or my smeggy penis if I walk on the second floor.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I&#8217;d be shocked if this didn&#8217;t happen. To me this is all normal and I don&#8217;t even bat an eyelid anymore.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>But is it normal?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>At first I thought this is Asia, the culture is different and the idea of what&#8217;s normal here is totally different to the England. But is it really?<\/p>\n<p>Many consider Soi Cowboy, Nana, Patpong and <a href=\"https:\/\/afarangabroad.com\/fr\/filles-de-pattaya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pattaya<\/a> as a man&#8217;s fantasy land where anything can happen. Keyword: <strong>Fantasy land<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Then I did something I tell myself not to do &#8211; I started to think.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks I&#8217;ve been contemplating whether I&#8217;m slowing going mentally insane living in Thailand. I guess the fact that I am aware of myself contemplating the fact reduces the possibility somewhat. That&#8217;s still not reassuring though. I started getting these thoughts when my friends from England arrived a few weeks ago. 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