Targeted People and Ex-Scapegoats

When I was into conspiracy theory, I encountered people who believed they were "gang stalked" or "targeted persons". Some of them were paranoid, or paranoid schizophrenics especially the ones keeping track of what color cars followed them or that there was special meaning in license plates. Mental illness came with the delusions of hearing voices, being watched, or followed.  Others with lives permanently trapped on the "hard setting" sought explanations for why their life had gone astray ignoring the built injustice to our society that can push a person further and further down where there's a punishment around every corner.

However with lots of things, there can be truth too behind the stories. There's definitely stories of whistleblowers, who have had their lives messed with. People facing down megacorporate interests or the powerful who notice their lives crumbling apart especially when they were standing against corruption.

A friend into conspiracy send me this video. I told them, this video was interesting to me, outside the conspiracy stuff I take with a grain of salt. I warned them, there's false parts of this video where people who have real mental health concerns would have them worsen.  I don't know if scalar technology is real, I don't know if they can send people radiation burning them. I can see some mentally ill people being taken too far down the conspiracy rabbit hole. One magazine article points out how we are all targeted individuals with the constant tracking via computers. So this can be a complex issues.

Yes some mentally ill people do take this stuff to extreme. Some of the conspiracy websites get crazy where they talk about gangstalking and schizophrenics talking about 20 red cars following them and delusional and schizoaffective patterns. Aunt Confused talked all the time about the mafia pursuing her. So be mindful here, even the narcissists themselves can claim being targeted.

Gang stalking and targeted person is a term most often used the conspiracy community and elsewhere, but it has been proven as being done to various whistleblowers etc. Like people who leave cults, who get tracked down by them, there's a lot of overlap with scapegoating and how narcissistic families target ACONs and try to sabotage careers, relationships and more in the background. There is a spectrum where there is out right life destruction, criminal harrassment to those who may just face emotional abuse. Yeah they try to drive people crazy or try to ruin their lives. Smear campaigns are a giant tool in the tool box.


Everyone who has been victimized by a narcissist or sociopath however knows they have been made targets to an extent.  I wrote the conspiracy friend and told them, if you have a malignant narcissist or sociopath in your life or had one or more then one, then you are a target to a certain extent. Narcissists STALK. I told them them to be careful of taking things too far, where you see every random event as having meaning and go deeper into paranoia. Americans need to return to critical thinking. Conspiracy beliefs can lead to some negative places. However if you were the family scapegoat, smear campaigns alone can cause great harm. ACONS know that targeting is REAL.

You have to go no contact, and no contact means, cutting off all their minions. Many scapegoats discover as I did, that family friends, friends from high school 30-40 years back are not safe.  Many ACONS who go no contact realize the only way to go into a free life is to completely clean the slate.  Until I cleaned out my life with anyone who had connection to them, it left a vulnerability.  Even with the VLC cousins, my contact is limited to Christmas cards and a once a year or every two years, "hello". These cousins who were the children of the aunt who loved me, are better people but sadly still have intermittent although rare contact with my abusers. This means I will remain very low contact as long as certain parties are involved in their lives.

Life became much more peaceful for me during my years of no contact. I don't care what they do or don't do. I just want left alone. Many narcissists turn with time to easier targets or choose new scapegoats especially if you have kept your no contact wall intact. That said, I do think scapegoats have to remain mindful and vigilant to a certain point for the rest of their lives. Being too trusting, and not realizing how these people work, can work against an ACON. Many of us were told growing up to always give the benefit of the doubt and to be too trusting. We were told to ignore our own intuition and to give everyone else a break while not protecting ourselves. To succeed an ACON must learn self protection.

I have known ACONs where their sociopaths have gone on full gangstalking campaigns. I have met ACONS who have been committed against their will and others caught up in legal battles. Some of these folks were even NO CONTACT for YEARS prior. For me their lives and experiences have served as a warning. Live your life, do your thing, be happy, but keep a level of caution. These people are never to be trusted.

Some ACONs get hoovered even 5 and 6 years into their no contact and beyond. Some have had legal machinations and one can read about those who have had their narcissists go so far to get them committed. Connected narcissists can use government and legal branches to make their targets miserable, destroy lives, mess with wills and probate, and other nasty plans. Many can easily find co-narcissists in multiple establishments to help them carry out their dirty work. Wealthy narcissists have more resources at their disposal to abuse. Sadly in our corrupt society, mask wearing narcissists are more often believed. They can get other narcissists or flying monkeys to join in on their plans. We do live in a narcissistic supportive society where they can play martyrs and be believed very easily.

Here too, an ex-scapegoat may face down, the fact that being an empath standing for love and truth, can make one a target, and you learn with time and boundaries, that you don't owe the world or narcissists who have abused you for years, your time and attention any further.  You shut some of that down and learn not to let people "invade". You learn to build the walls of boundaries. You stop the enmeshment and the false love and "forgive and forget" crap that made you vulnerable over and over.

  False guilt too is a weight on the ACON's back that can keep them in the game too long, as the world will tell you that you are "unforgiving" or "mean" to "cut your family off.  Learning detachement is a definite asset. You figure narcissists are going to narc but it doesn't matter anymore. I know in this world learning to protect yourself can take some time. We have to reengage our intuition to learn who is an enemy and who is a friend and who is neutral.

One thing I had to face was the total nexus of disrespect, and I faced facts I wanted a life of respect even if this meant having "no family" and in many ways I did not have a family outside of my loving husband. The me of today is sickened by how little regard they held me in as I went crawling like a puppy dog to beg for their crumbs. I forgive myself too because I knew no better and had been trained and needed to find the path to a new life.

In my family they were alike in ways I recognized as I exited, deadened down emotions, shutting off emotions, shutting off guilt, playing to win, caring most about appearances, I noticed all these traits in them and didn't want to be associated with them anymore anyhow. I realized I had become someone else. They don't even know the me of today.  Let your absence be your witness.

As for the Conspiracy level targeting? Some perhaps are paranoid, and being led into mental illness. America as a whole seems to be descending into a religious fueled fear based insanity crushed by corruption. However for the ACON being paranoid is having all the facts on certain levels. Don't be too trusting. Build your life around safe people who have shown themselves to be empathetic and kind. This changed my life for the better on multiple fronts. Avoid all narcissists, their minions or anyone connected to them. Keep yourself safe, and listen to your intuition. They really will sink as low as your imagination will guess. That said, your life is still yours to live, and the more time you are away, the better it will become.

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