Gangstalkers Following you? Here is how to tell.

In eighth grade, I came home from school and cried alone in my room every single night.

It wasn’t the school, the teachers, or the homework. Instead, the other kids bullied and taunted me ruthlessly all day long.

I remember sitting in my room in the dark, heartbroken and mentally shattered, wondering why they all hated me.

Gaslighting is a terrible system of psychological abuse by someone close to you — your partner, friend, parent, or employer.

What’s worse than gaslighting?

Group gaslighting. It’s called “mobbing” or “gangstalking” and there are seven unmistakable signs that it’s happening to you.

1. Everyone is suspiciously on the same page

A hallmark of gangstalking is an eerie sameness.

Everyone says the same things to you. Everyone acts in the same ordered ways as if cloned, mind-controlled, or manufactured along with The Stepford Wives or the victims in Get Out.

In this case, however, the group is intentionally aligned against you (but you don’t always know it).

They are worse than “Men in Black” conspiracy theories — they are real flesh and blood co-conspirators that you know.

There are no dissenters.

Somehow, everyone in your life — friends, family, even coworkers — all agree on everything. Creepy.

A 2011 study on the influence of social circles says that our brains are biologically hardwired to place a higher value on success with others than on our own private success.

Other research on the social pressure of clustered networks (densely connected and interconnected social groups) suggests that the people around us powerfully affect our happiness, health, and even our diet.

Unfortunately, gangstalkers use their social influence to win your trust and then slowly unravel your sanity.

They might all gang up to present you with a single, narrow view of yourself or your world. The worldview they want you to adopt might be that you are sick, unreliable, or unworthy.

2. You feel uncomfortable and don’t know why

Another sign of gangstalking is a constant, lingering sense of discomfort. Something doesn’t feel quite right, but you can’t put your finger on exactly what is causing your unease.

Under such strange circumstances, almost anyone would eventually crack.

You start with doubt that nibbles away into fear. The neverending stress eats away at your confidence. You start to wonder if maybe everyone else is right and you are crazy.

And that’s precisely the point.

Gangstalkers, just like individual gaslighters, want you off-center, uncertain, and defeated. They want you to ignore your intuition and gut feelings.

All the better to manipulate and control you.

3. Facts don’t add up

Gangstalkers twist the truth, but they also flat-out lie. They will say that you look or sound sick. They will say that you or they never said something that you clearly remember being said.

As a group, they will deny events that actually happened and invent new things that never happened.

And they will call you crazy for not agreeing with them.

The facts, though, rarely lie. Phone records show that you did receive calls. Videos record the reality that you remember, not the falsehoods promoted by the group.

When besieged by gangstalking, the facts don’t add up.

Somewhere you will find evidence that contradicts what the group around you promotes as gospel.

Don’t ignore the facts, even if your gangstalkers do everything in their power to convince you that the facts don’t matter.

4. You feel trapped in a bubble

Gangstalking can feel isolating, almost like you’re in a bubble that you can’t escape.

Everyone in your bubble feeds you the same information. Eventually, they cut you off from any outside sources of data. Other friends, even family members or work colleagues become threats.

The longer you experience gangstalking, the smaller and tighter your bubble gets.

Everything your gangstalkers say and do is to get you to rely entirely on them. Your dependence means you’ve reverted psychologically to a childlike Field of Intimacy and interaction pattern that they can exploit.

5. You notice regular, small changes that everyone else ignores

This is classic gaslighting.

In the original play from which the term gaslighting gets its ominous name, the gaslighting husband slowly dims the lights. His wife senses that something is different, but her husband denies any change.

Now imagine that experience multiplied over a group of your closest friends and confidants.

Gangstalkers will make small, subtle changes to your environment. Changes that unnerve you. But then they will deny anything is different. All of them will collude to convince you that you are seeing or hearing things that don’t exist.

You’ll wonder if you are going nuts — which is exactly what they want.

6. Pete, repeat and delete

Repetition is a common tactic employed by gangstalkers. They repeat the same words, behaviors, and they may even display the same objects.

Other times, they will remove the same person, place, or thing from everywhere. They will stop using the same word or the same route to work. Suddenly, they will all drink tea instead of coffee.

It could be anything added or taken away from your usual daily experience.

One simple but illustrative example of gangstalking is a blue pen. Everywhere a person goes, someone shows them a blue pen. At home, at work, at the grocery store — always a blue pen.

Over time, the victim of gangstalking associates a blue pen with feelings of uncertainty and anxiety.

Essentially, the group applied basic classical conditioning to get the victim to connect unpleasant feelings with the pen.

Illusionist and mentalist Darren Brown uses repetition (among other methods in this article) to influence his audience to choose certain cards, draw specific images, and even to nearly push another innocent person to their death.

Repetition is a known method of weaseling into people’s brains. Advertisers and marketers spend millions or billions every year to drill their brands into your psyche.

Once gangstalkers invade your mind, they all but control you.

7. You don’t trust yourself anymore

Ultimately, what gangstalkers want is for you to stop trusting yourself.

They want all of your trust, dependence, and reliance focused on them. Or they simply want to shatter your self-confidence for other nefarious reasons, such as to steal your partner or your job.

Sometimes, breaking someone down is a step in the process of inculcating their minds for entrance into cults, sex trafficking, or service as human drug mules.

Every powerful person or group needs disposable pawns.

Final thoughts

Gangstalking is gaslighting on steroids. It’s mental and emotional mass manipulation, a human chess match with your sanity as the prize.

Thankfully, what happened to me in middle school represented more of the obvious “mobbing” tactics of group harassment.

Unfortunately, it’s not always so clear for everyone.

To know if you’re being gangstalked, look out for these ominous signs:

Everyone is on the exact same page — that never happens!

You feel uncomfortable — listen to the wisdom of your gut.

You find contradictory evidence — focus on the facts, not what the others say is true.

You feel trapped or suffocated — reach out to someone outside of your inner circle. They can provide helpful subjectivity.

You notice small changes — don’t ignore gradual differences, track them.

You lose trust in yourself — pay attention to your level of self-trust.

The more of these signs you notice in your life, the more likely you are the victim of gangstalking.

If you think you are a victim, and you live in the United States, please contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1.800.799.SAFE (7233). If you live outside of the US, check out these links to global domestic violence websites.

No matter your past experience, there is hope for healing and a better life.

Author Marianne Williamson wrote the following self-affirming words in her bestseller, A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.