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137 that they can apparently gain the upper hand in these situations. You don’t have to stand there and let it just happen, being powerless to stop it. Harassment, be it helicopters to anomalous swarms of angry bees or whatever it may be can be stopped. You just have to drop the fear, believe you have the ultimate control, and change the radio dial. Paranoia Another related topic to fear is paranoia. I’ve encountered people on the internet, or in emails, who displayed the figurative wild-eyed paranoia. There they are, relaying sincere stories about tapped phones, surveillance and monitoring, black helis, “agents in disguise as regular people,” obsessing in circles about their weird events, and they’re all worked up about it...completely amplifying the situation and ensuring that the harassment will never end. They’ve become a guaranteed fear/anger/paranoia all-you-can-eat buffet, and in the process they’re locked into a downward spiral that may lead to their permanent derailment in life if they can’t snap out of it. They haven't figured things out yet. You have to stop caring. You have to become nonchalant. As I bluntly told one guy on a message board - maybe too bluntly - Calm the fuck down! You have to. You have to calm down, take a big breath and get a grip on yourself when it comes to this stuff. You have no choice but to learn how to be nonchalant. And I mean sincerely nonchalant. Don’t 1 ton rn a n pretend you don’t care...just don’t care. Period. So, they’re buzzing your apartment or house with a helicopter? Cool. Wave at them and take a few pictures. Then crank up some Your phones are tapped? That’s good. Who cares. Give them something worth listening to. Have fun with it. When they’ve tapped into my conversations, namely, when my boyfriend has been back in Iowa visiting his family and we’re talking long distance, we always say hi to them. “Hi! How ya doin’.” Five seconds later we’re onto other things and have totally forgotten about it. Are we going to be all weirded out about it for the rest of the conversation? Are we going to spiral down into low frequency fearful paranoia?? Hell no. It’s not even worth remembering ten seconds after it happened, only because Part III - Expanded Insights —_—_—_—_—— ee *e good music and dance around.