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The kernel of truth that we all are being spied on in some way is what makes the delusion so hard to deal with
I knew someone who thought that they were being gangstalked. They they thought that everyone around them was putting gay thoughts into their head.
I think most victims won’t initially think you’re in on it unless you’re making a stink about it on spaces dedicated to gangstalking. As long as you don’t try to invalidate someone’s existence they won’t dislike you which is also a general rule in life.
Mental health services are beyond most TIs budgets anyway.
Most TIs that I’ve met have been fairly nice people, albeit a bit withdrawn.
I have a soft spot for the gang stalking people. Before I learned more about programs like MKUltra I was much quicker to just dismiss all of their claims. I’m hesitant to label all of it a side effect of mental illness, because if I was legitimately being fucked with and no one believed me I’m sure my mental health would rapidly deteriorate.
The whole thing is very sad and it breaks my heart to see people suffering like that regardless of whether it’s a delusion or not.
I’m hesitant to label all of it a side effect of mental illness, because if I was legitimately being fucked with and no one believed me I’m sure my mental health would rapidly deteriorate.
It’s hardly mutually exclusive.
People living in high stress situations tend to develop cooping mechanisms. And if you’ve been assaulted by the police before, that’s bound to create some lingering PTSD. How many times do you need to be Rodney King’d before you start jumping at shadows?
On the flip side, if you express symptoms of a mental health crisis, then it’s possible you’re attracting attention from law enforcement. Police see your paranoia as suspicious activity and end up reinforcing it. Particularly true in neighborhoods that already employ Broken Windows policing and Stop And Frisk police harassment.
I believe that the government has a line to watch me. That much is true. But to think anyone is actively listening in?
Going through every text message? Every post? Divining some intent from the last time I posted “post hog” or a dumb bit about a trump speech? I feel like since PRISM was made public, the one saving grace has been the deluge of data they collect basically obfuscates points they’re trying to find. And if they’re randomly dredging to look for something, they are wasting their time.
Instead they would be better served having these terabytes of information to work backwards from once they have you, or design some stupid racist AI to flag potential targets but still pull up a million false positives because of how detached they are from the reality of who could be a threat in this day and age.
That’s pretty much what I’ve heard about their mass data collection projects: they’re absolutely worthless at actually detecting an active threat like some little neo-nazi shit psyching himself up to go do a terrorism, but they’re an invaluable database when it comes to creepy psychopaths in the DoD wanting to tailor search queries to find vulnerable women to stalk or the feds wanting to identify activists and decide which ones they want to persecute extra-hard instead of the usual “lmao just let local cops beat them senseless” level of repression.
