Paranoia and Reality

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I can't tell if I am being watched or not. I thought I saw a back neighbour shining a phone flashlight, fake accounts keep following me, getting strange phone calls, finding garbage, and seeing someone walk back and forth in front of where I live. When I bring it up I get told it is paranoia. It doesn't feel that way though. How can those things not be connected? I can't bring it up because I just get told to stop getting obsessed with it and not to work myself up. I do get worked up sometimes. I get angry and don't let people talk to me. I just get annoyed. It's frustrating.

It's like they don't want me to talk. It's always argumentative. Yet I get blamed. I escalate the situation according to my relatives. I just get really upset that people don't care. These things can still happen to me. Yet I'm not believed because I struggle.

It is hard to say. The person walking back and forth in front of your place, are they looking in your direction? If not, it likely has nothing to do with you. I walk back and forth on my street. It is because I need exercise. People try to be healthy, get exercise. They walk back and forth.

I get strange phone calls every day from unknown numbers and texts from bots all the time. Unfortunately that is the world we live in, lots of scam artists. Sometimes they know my full name, my age, where I live. They are hoping I am mentally compromised and will give them a credit card number or a gift card or click on a link or something like that.

People are messing around with their phones all of the time, many people just live through their phones. It is not surprising you would see a neighbor playing with a phone or a phone light. That is what people do now.

If there is one person in particular you are concerned about, then that is a different story.

I don't think the phone calls are related anymore but the guy was looking at me before he started walking back and forth. He stood there looking at me. I had a guy follow me a bit for 3 days and disappear once.

TBH, I had some issues like that, personally, I more or less made Ockham's Razor and a defaulting to what option I was most comfortable living with more or less my religion. Most of the time, these sorts of conspiracies are laughable if you're not the one suffering from the it because of just how complicated the machinations would need to be in order to keep it up for any significant length of time. Even in cases where the FBI or the like are targeting something, we're talking about weeks, months or years at an extreme expense with a number of individuals involved. The likelihood of them, or really anybody else, with that level of ability picking somebody that wasn't at bare minimum hanging out with dodgy folks is far less likely than that it's happening.

Likewise, as disturbing as it was to see people that had no faces, I was more OK living with the possibility that they really did exist than doing something about it and finding out that I was wrong. Especially in the absence of a more clear near term threat.

Over time, things did get better, but it is a lot of work over the long term.