This secret was revealed to me later in life, after living a full life, so my mind was already well developed before this infestation set upon me.
Have none of you heard of creeper culture? Where people report being “gang stalked?” Where mysterious mobs of apparently random strangers appear to stalk and harass individuals?
These are signs of controls messing with you.
of course anything that can be said has a perfectly easy to blow off response, that does not make it untrue.