#paranoia?

[defectivegembrain]

Abed Nadir would get why I needed to cover up the holes on the light switch in my bedroom he would get that they're "eyes" and it was "staring" at me

[venleaf]

I feel like my brain or my mind is turning liquid and starts dripping down

Twisting and turning and becoming so unnaturally heavy yet ligh

[jonny-b-meowborn]

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this weird thing my brain does before, but basically seeing a picture of someone, or engaging with their art, makes my tiny rat brain feel like by doing that the person gains access to my thoughts, location, and whatever I'm doing at the time. Like let's say, if I scroll on Instagram and see a pic of my beloved musician Aurora, now for a moment she can read my thoughts and see me through that pic. Or if it's not caused by an image of them, but for example music, they can still see me, just not from any specific angle. I have no idea why my brain does that but y'know, it's pretty distressing sometimes, especially as a fan artist. I know none of that is true but sometimes the feeling gets so strong that it prevents me from watching/listening/drawing them for a while, until it calms down a bit. For example, I used to listen to music while showering/taking a bath, but over time this feeling got so strong that I felt like the musicians I'm listening to can see me naked, so I just stopped and couldn't do that for literal years.

But, you'd think that engaging with pure fiction would help, right? There's no one watching me if I look at a screenshot from an animated movie, right? Turns out, no! Sometimes it works with even 100% non existent fictional characters that are not real and never were real. Even if the whole "I see them so they can see me" thing was true somehow, which I know is not, it couldn't be true for fictional characters, there's just no person that could do this whole mind reading thing. And yet here I am, feeling like the cartoon or a game or whatever is staring back at me, knows my thoughts and sees me. What the fuck, brain

[ralfmaximus]

Reminder that twitter is now an informal, unregulated (i.e. warrantless) information source for Trump administration use.

[fairycorewalterwhite]

sitting in the back corner of my class rn scrolling through Tumblr but I still feel paranoid, like im always being watched and judged and my back feels so exposed and I feel like someone is looking over my shoulder

[met4lwhore]

yall are pro mental illness until they hallucinate

yall are pro mental illness until they dissociate

yall are pro mental illness until they self-isolate

yall are pro mental illness until they're paranoid

yall are pro mental illness until they split

yall are pro mental illness until it's too Scary for your comparatively neurotypical brain to handle

[brain--rott]

"everybody experiences that" says mother who has the same symptom of the same mental illness

[demonicsuffrage]

The justice league sees Batman periodically updating a database of his, at the oddest of times, and naturally they think it's got something to do with his contingency plans or a dataset about the Gotham rogues, but in reality it's just him keeping record of his many children's changing tastes

Superman: Woah, he's writing down with such concentration, wonder what could be in there, maybe a new villain in Gotham?

Bruce, writing: "Dick has refused his favourite Pb&J five mornings in a row. Delete from favourites. Ask for new favourite food."

"Jason didn't seem as Eager to read the new book by his favourite author, put it in neutral category."

"Tim chose a green shirt instead of a red one at the mall today. More research needed."

"Cass listened to arctic monkeys on repeat this week. Update to favourites."

"Duke expressed an interest in slam poetry and called band practice lame. Put poetry in favourites and band in neutral."

"Damian watched Bluey for a total of 50 hours this week. Update to favourites."

[red-lights-of-doooooom]

honest question: how do you know if you're being followed by bots?

[bunabi]

Using a fear of Palestinian revenge as justification for the occupation is both wild and familiar

Aint nobody thinking about vengeance after getting freedom 😭 all we wanna do on this planet is drink chilled juice and not die

[all-my-crap]

s’alright, it was a pretty small chance he would’ve gotten hit

[defectivegembrain]

Okay okay okay with object personification you ever uh. start feeling like the object is watching you and can't rest until you cover up its "eyes" with sticky labels and then have to tell yourself it's just like a sleeping mask to stop feeling guilty about "blinding" it? Anyone? Because I had never experienced this either until like idk 15 minutes ago and uh I don't know what's going on in my brain

[tiger-grace]

Jason: I have a bone to pick with you

Bruce, just happy to talk to his estranged son: sure, what’s going on?

Jason, pulling out an entire femur: I stole this evidence from a crime scene. I need help with a case

Duke: hey B I have a bone to pick with you really quick

Bruce, on the verge of tears: please don’t.

Duke: I? just have a question?

[razberrypuck]

no bc ford and bill's falling out is so silly to me because its like. ford's obsession with bill was the closest to "religious" that he's ever tread, and that kind of betrayal was earth shattering and hurt ford in a way he had NEVER been hurt before, causing him to completely mentally and emotionally unravel. meanwhile bill is like "can we talk 🥺" as if he hasn't been using ford for years, and when it became clear ford hated his ass bill got so drunk he forgot his mom was dead. what an INSANE dynamic to establish 8 years after the show ended.

[schizopositivity]

Things I'd love for the Internet to leave in 2023:

• misusing the word "delusional" or saying "delulu"

• public freakout videos that are just someone displaying psychotic symptoms

• "I'm in your walls" and other paranoia triggering "jokes"

• schizoposting

• misusing the word "psychotic"

• baiting and triggering people online who are openly psychotic or displaying psychotic symptoms

• excluding schizo-spec and psychotic people from any neurodiversity/mental illness awareness

Let's just all try to be better to schizo-spec and psychotic people. And hold others accountable as well.

[ralfmaximus]

According to a recent report published by the Aargauer Zeitung (h/t Golem.de), around three million smart toothbrushes have been infected by hackers and enslaved into botnets.

The most cyberpunk thing on your dash today.