Walking on the road always feels like someone is following you? What the hell is going on here? Mental illness: I feel that someone is always following me. I prepared it for you and share it with you here.
No one believed him. His family wants him to see a doctor. However, Timothy, an unemployed recording engineer in his early forties, firmly believes that he is being followed, not by one person, but by a group of people.
Timothy said he could see agents disguised as ordinary people lurking in downtown Manhattan. Sometimes they will bump into Timothy and whisper meaningless words to him.
? Now you know what this is all about. That's what they would say.
Timothy wondered at first whether these things were just his imagination. But then, he found a huge group with similar ideas online, which claimed to be? Target group? , or T.I.s, they all say they have experienced the same thing, exactly the same.
This group is built around a core concept: now, there is a huge conspiracy to manipulate weapons that control the brain and so-called tracking gangs, disrupting the lives of thousands of Americans day and night; And they are precisely the victims of the conspiracy. Quoting the website of a tracking team, what is the purpose of this conspiracy? Total destruction? The chosen one? Life? .
The number of people who are troubled is increasing.
Mental health experts say, this kind? Selected? Our thoughts take root in the group with mental symptoms, which have been bothering the human brain since ancient times. Only now, patients with symptoms have entered the internet, they have established support groups and refused to accept medical explanations for their symptoms.
This group was born in the infancy of the Internet, and is constantly developing under the impetus of anxiety about government monitoring. Its number is 9? 1 1 soared, and now it is conservatively estimated to have exceeded 654.38+million. Psychologists say that most people in this group seem to suffer from paranoia or schizophrenia.
And the so-called? Conspiracy? It remains to be discussed.
Some psychiatrists have made a detailed study of these people. They found that the history of mental illness of these people has deteriorated: thousands of people who are troubled by this idea have gathered together and demanded that the society admit that their delusions are true.
These people raise funds to organize various movements: launch information publicity activities, hold international exchange meetings, and fight for their rights and interests in court and legal content.
Perhaps the best result so far appeared in Richmond, California last year, when its group members successfully lobbied the City Council to pass a resolution banning space-based weapons that they seemed to be able to control their ideas (conducting anti-satellite, anti-missile and anti-spacecraft operations in space and attacking land, sea and air weapon systems from space; Translator's note). The same lobbying activity also appeared in Tucson.
Paranoid? Echo wall? endless loop
There may be only one study on tracking groups at present, and Dr. Lorraine Xie Lidan is one of the authors of this study. She said that the danger of this group is that they are different from other groups that popularize psychological distress. For example, anxiety groups and suicide groups, the network can provide them with a lot of medical information and treatment methods. However, for this group of paranoid stalkers, the network can do nothing.
This is because, if you search online? Tracking group? There will be countless web pages telling you that someone is really paying attention to you. ? What makes my spine cold is that there are no websites trying to make those? The chosen one? Believe that they are delusional? Dr. Lorraine sheridan said? They're in a closed? Cognitive echo wall? In the book, cognition and delusion justify themselves. ?
In the instruction manual circulated on the Internet, experienced team members pass on their experiences to new members:
1. Don't fight the voice in your head.
2. If your family tells you that you imagined these things, then your family may be imagined by you.
3.？ Don't go to see a psychiatrist. ?
This group spans all social classes and occupations, including lawyers, soldiers, artists and engineers. In Facebook and telephone support groups, they feel sad that they are suspected by their relatives. They share stories about black trucks circling the block, or talk about colleagues who joined the movement.
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A kind of affiliation? The chosen person (t.i.)? The sub-group of the regiment is very famous on Amazon. The picture on the left is "Guinea Pigs: Ways to Control the Brain" by John Hall. The picture on the right shows Robert Duncan's How to Tame the Devil.
They published dozens of electronic novels at their own expense, such as Days of Suffering in America and My Life is Gone for Never. In hundreds of YouTube videos, they take out all kinds of evidence of being followed and try to collect evidence about stalkers, even if the people they meet are unsuspecting strangers.
? They just want to destroy me fundamentally, and they have already done it. A young mother in Phoenix said in the video, fighting back tears. In order to protect privacy, the name in her video was blocked. She said that her daughter stopped taking care of her and sent her to a behavior correction hospital. ? However, I will work hard all my life. ?
She added? You know, I'm not crazy. ?
Dr Xie Lidan's research was conducted by Dr david james, a forensic psychiatrist. The study observed 128 patients who claimed to be followed, and found that almost all patients seemed to be paranoid.
? People need to realize that for those who inadvertently find themselves? Being followed? For paranoid people, the concept of T.I. can explain their experiences. Dr. James said.
A lot of conspiracy theories.
Perhaps not surprisingly, this group will be divided because of different conspiracy theories. Some people think that the supporters behind the conspiracy are financial elites; Others believe that aliens, neighbors, aid organizations, or some joint organizations are behind the scenes.
However, in this propaganda campaign, the highest-pitched voice believes that their tracking and monitoring are part of the American mind control experiment to rule the world. The voice said that the US military never gave up MK-ULTRA's notorious brain control project in the 1950s and 1960s.
One of the main supporters of this view is John Hall, an anesthesiologist from San Antonio.
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John Hall, an anesthesiologist in San Antonio? The chosen one? One of the team leaders.
Photograph: Matthew Busch, new york Times
In the book "New Species: Satellite Surveillance Terrorism in the United States" published in 2009, he gave the reason why he was being followed. He wrote that the spy put bleach in his water and repeatedly disturbed him with his voice to create a sense of terror in murdering him.
This book caused a sensation because of the author himself: he is in the medical system and has a doctor's qualification certificate, but what does he say? The chosen one? Said the psychiatrist was misleading them. He wrote that even the doorman knows the human brain like a psychiatrist.
Hall, 5 1 year-old, was invited for an interview with Coast to Coast AM. The program is a conspiracy theory radio program, headquartered in California, and the audience is said to be millions. After the performance, Hall said. I received about 3000 to 4000 emails, and the senders all said:? I am in America, and the same thing happened to me? 、? I went through the same thing in Florida? 、? I'm in California, and it's the same.
Hall said that the similarity of these cases just inspired their more and more extensive publicity activities. ? If psychiatrists insist that these follow-up events are caused by paranoia or schizophrenia, no problem. He said,? But everyone who was followed experienced exactly the same thing. How to explain it?
Although Hall needs to undergo a mental health examination by the Texas Medical Association next, he can still hold the qualification of a doctor. However, with the passage of time, many other people who think they are victims of stalking groups have lost their jobs. They are laughed at by their colleagues, and their relatives are trying their best to tolerate them. But friends and partners have left them.
An excuse for violence
The despair and gratitude brought by being followed led to some people's violent behavior.
For example, many people in this group firmly believe that aaron alexis himself is the victim of stalking. In 20 13, aaron alexis shot and killed 12 people at the Washington naval base. The former navy left a document accusing the navy of using it? Extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves attacked his brain. His shotgun has words engraved on the side? My elf weapon? .
Another patient, Miron May, was mentally ill for an uncertain time, but in the autumn of 20 14, he got it? Terminal illness? Yes He quit his job as a prosecutor in New Mexico and went to Florida. Here, he recorded a video to show how the tracking team ruined his life.
? As you can see now, he said to the camera, I am not crazy at all. ?
In the video, he tells an experience at a gas station. He firmly believes that there are people wearing sunglasses at the gas station imitating his every move. ? It's creepy. He said,? He follows me in everything I do. ?
In the second half of the video, he began to pray for forgiveness for his possible future crimes. ? Oh, my God, he said, now, I beg you to lower your head and look at the chosen people in this world. Please help them get rid of this crazy pain. ?
May graduated from Florida State University in 2005. 2065438+0 1 65438 On October 20th, 20041he walked into the library of his alma mater, shot and killed three people, leaving1person paralyzed. According to the official, he encouraged the police to shoot themselves and shoot in the direction of the police before being hit in the key. May 3 1 year.
Most mental patients don't resort to violence, but research still shows that a few people in acute mental illness are especially accompanied by imperative auditory hallucinations (in the absence of objective voices, patients hear a voice ordering them to do something; Paranoia is more vulnerable to hostile attacks.
Try it: most members of T.I. are against the shooting and bloodshed caused by Alexis and May, just like other ordinary people. However, according to the research, there are still some members who accept the views of Alexis and May and think that they are oppressed by totalitarianism. They are confused about this. How can people be so heartless?
Karen Stewart from Tallahassee, Florida believes that countless ordinary people have been brainwashed by the National Security Agency, which is why they regard her as a traitor or a terrorist. No matter where she went, no matter what she said, going to church, going to a retail store and seeing a doctor, they were all there, watching her quietly.
This puzzled Stuart. But what is worse? It's really irritating to see so many antisocial people in our country. They are all downright victims of group thinking. Stuart said,? I can't even treat them like people? .
? I need meaning: life can't go on without delusion?
Susan Clancy, a psychologist who graduated from Harvard University, studied people who thought they were kidnapped by aliens. She believes that it is more difficult to convince patients that what they say is delusional than to ascend to heaven. They will cling to the ideas used to explain their delusions.
? I think this is the need of a sense of meaning, and it is also a need to understand the meaning of one's life and the problems in life. She said,? In this way, you are not a dispensable ordinary person. Are you being watched by the CIA?
According to Dr Clancy, if explained in this way, such a delusion of being followed is similar to religious belief: once the delusion is abandoned, his life will be turned upside down.
Paula is the mother of the intruder. She said that she would avoid quarreling with her son.
? This is not what he imagined. She said,? He really felt his feelings and realized his feelings. I finally said to him bluntly:? I'm really sorry to see you in such pain. I wish I could do something.
Thought you were? Selected? People say that the best hope now is that society can respond to what happens to them and take measures to stop it. Others will also seek the help of psychiatrists; Some people's delusions will gradually disappear, while for others, psychiatrists say that their treatment results are not satisfactory. They are all considering suicide.
Trepas, 49, said he tried to commit suicide.
Last month, Trespas told us in a coffee shop in Brooklyn that it is gratifying that his stalker has almost disappeared. However, the person who harassed him infected him with Mogilens syndrome (a multi-symptom syndrome, it is not clear whether it really exists, and it is often characterized by strong itching and foreign body sensation; It's like a dense insect crawling on the skin, which is creepy and painful. Most doctors think it is psychogenic disease (physical disease caused by psychological factors; Translator's note).
He looked haggard and his eyes were tired and sad. He said that it has been eight years since the stalker appeared, and now he can't do any work and his friends have left him.
Internet groups have always been his main source of support. But we don't even know what happened. He said,? Maybe we all stick to the wrong idea. I am at a loss, which is why I try to keep in touch with external information. Who did it, how and why? Maybe I was wrong. ?
But one thing he can be sure of. He said, I'm not crazy.
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