? dear anon who feels scared of media atm (it sounds like you are), you aren’t alone. i feel i’m being tracked too. i feel my actions, people i spoke to and what i do (nothing bad) is going to come back. i feel i’ll be tracked and traced and i want to vanish too. the only think keeping me on tumblr is this blog because it helps me and makes me feel less alone. but i want to delete so much social and hope it will keep me from being tracked or found by people. idk what to do either, is this normal
Hello,
Are you asking us if this normal? It’s common when we deal with hypervigilance, paranoid psychosis episodes and/or other anxiety/paranoia issues. Those issues can cause us to believe we are being personally tracked by either past traumatisers or by other larger forces.
Wanting to vanish can be related to this but it’s also can be a part of active and/or passive suicidal ideation. Depressive disorders and trauma also can cause this feeling due to our being overwhelmed, scared, lost or feeling as if others don’t care. It’s sometimes quite common in traumatised people.
You can delete social media’s you don’t like using and there are certain things like VPNs and different search engines some people use to protect data which might help as it practical can stop forces like media companies from data mining.
Taking any identifiable information like addresses can always help with some worries of being identified by past people.
But it’s important to work to try and regulate our nervous system as well as work on paranoia and obsessive thoughts. If we spend all out time trying to work on preventing these concerns of being harmed by others then it can work against our recovery and also our ability to do ADLs, school or wok if it requires computers.
Being able to take some general particle online safety measures is smart in general and can help with these thoughts. We can all be smart, but falling completely into paranoia is never going to be productive to healing.
We honour and hear your stories.
Be blessed,
-Admin 2
