Dealing with a Friend or relative that Went To Deep into a conspiracy or paranormal experience?

Has anybody out there had to deal with a close friend or relative who fell too deeply down a rather shallow rabbit hole and became obsessed with a conspiracy that just wasn't there, or who had a relatively ordinary experience that they interpreted as being paranormal and went overboard with it?

Someone who took things to an obsessive or ruinous level that harmed them or their relationships with others?

For example, somebody who thought that they were being gang stalked, and became a total reclusive wreck because of it, and was paranoid about everything, or somebody who thought that they were being followed by shadow people and interpreted every creak or knock as being a sign that something paranormal was happening?

How did you deal with it, did you ever snap them out of it?

How do you help somebody like this, and when it is time to simply cut them loose because they're effecting your lifeyour family too much?

a reply to: AaarghZombies

I have/had a friend who went down the Q rabbit hole, he suffers from this kind of blind stupor over Trump like he is some kind of Messiah. No matter how much evidence you give him in his mind Trump is the saviour of humanity.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

yup... had a friend for years... was all about conspiracies, and dragged me into it too... but he went too far

Eventually be became obsessed with them... and dragged me into the lot...

When you get too crazy about conspiracy, everything becomes a conspiracy... i actually believe it leads to mental illness now

Had to block my former friend from my life... he became aggressive and very verbal when i disagreed with him

I still have a friend that talks to him these days... but hes just gone...

Don't dive to deep into said rabbit hole... theres no ladder out

a reply to: AaarghZombies

You're not describing a conspiracy theorist. You're describing a schizophrenic/paranoiac fed by conspiracy theories. Very bad combo.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

I knew of these conspiracy theorists who believed 9/11 was carried out by 18 terrorists armed only with box cutters, and their leader was hiding out in a cave in Afghanistan, or was it Iraq? Either way Iraq most probably had WMD’s so let’s invade both countries! While we’re at it let’s create the patriot act, restricting the freedoms of our own citizens.

Never mind the collateral damage, all the innocent lives lost and permanently maimed. Yeah I think those guys went way to far with their dangerous conspiracy theory.

I think of many more examples but hopefully you get the point.

Slap his face with some nice cleavage , or punch in the face an knock him out.

It what i needed long ago, but no body loved me enough to do it.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

You want your friend to think like you do? Because your theory of reality is more valid than theirs? Is it? Do you really know what your friend is going through? I don't think so.

If you want to be a friend you give him/her rules according to how much you can handle. If you don't want to be a friend keep arguing about stuff that isn't your business.
Everybody has to figure out their own #, there's no recipe to force him/her to stop thinking how he/she currently has to.




Sorry but to me it doesn't sound like you're as much worried about your friend as the inconvenience it causes you.

a reply to: Peeple

Well put, P!👍

originally posted by: mazzroth
a reply to: AaarghZombies

I have/had a friend who went down the Q rabbit hole, he suffers from this kind of blind stupor over Trump like he is some kind of Messiah. No matter how much evidence you give him in his mind Trump is the saviour of humanity.

I have a cousin who won't speak to me any more over the same thing. His wife and kids just recently moved out as well, as all he does is look up Q videos all day long, and call everyone who disagrees with him pedophiles. Q is a disease.

There is zealotry even in defending truth. That doesn't change the truth. It can definitely lead to mental illness the same way those obsessed with fitness, diet, or any other thing can just get consumed where it is all they think about. Attachments are bad.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

It sounds like a spiritual problem. Is it possible your friend is being demonized?

originally posted by: LordAhriman
Q is a disease.

All you have to do to prove this is pop into the Q thread where people are operating inside some giant group psychosis in which reality is being ignored wholesale.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Well that's because people get raised on a don't-ask-believe basis told lies from day 1, fiction instead of parenting and when they venture out to look for the truth they naturally fall for the first most exciting bs they can find.
Plus it validates their needs to be chosen, special, heroes, the seeing amongst the blind...

It's not without reason that the same people follow Trump.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: LordAhriman
Q is a disease.

All you have to do to prove this is pop into the Q thread where people are operating inside some giant group psychosis in which reality is being ignored wholesale.

All you have to do to prove this is pop into any liberal thread where people are operating inside some giant group psychosis in which reality is being ignored wholesale.

We have sworn affidavits that there was at least some election fraud. Yet you have the MSM telling you no evidence of fraud and you and others accept the BS and parrot it to the world.

You keep defending the MSN narrative of no fraud. Which says plenty about who you really are to those of us paying attention.

You are literally no different than those in the Q thread. Accepting obvious lies as truth and framing the narrative to fit your confirmation bias. Yet you have no idea that you are just as manipulated. Unless you’re just a shill and troll.

good topic OP

the internet has made this sort of thing tragically easy.

there's no telling how many seemingly normal people are around one step from exploding

I really encourage all of us to have a social network. be tight with your family. a church is a great option. maybe whatever gym or Y one goes to.
its the ones that stay home with none of the above, spending hours on the puter, that worry me.

how often do we hear 'so and so snapped, he seemed so quiet and harmless...'

a reply to: ElGoobero

I don't think that is how it works. How many people are in tight social networks and kill their families, or beat them every night, are alcoholics or whatever, become child molesters and so on?

originally posted by: Isurrender73
We have sworn affidavits that there was at least some election fraud.

And those sworn affidavits are not holding up in court. Three cases were lost or withdrawn yesterday based on those sworn witnesses retracting or being unable to support their claims.

originally posted by: Halfswede
There is zealotry even in defending truth. That doesn't change the truth. It can definitely lead to mental illness the same way those obsessed with fitness, diet, or any other thing can just get consumed where it is all they think about. Attachments are bad.

So true, and public perception is important too. People who' get overly into fitness or religion (have a family member who sunk under religion) tend to be perceived as positive by the blind eye of society and may not get the support they need.

My conspiracy theories on the other hand...

Diversity of thought should be praised, remind them that despite what they think about others, they still have their life to live.

originally posted by: Trueman
a reply to: AaarghZombies

You're not describing a conspiracy theorist. You're describing a schizophrenic/paranoiac fed by conspiracy theories. Very bad combo.

Yes exactly...i would even go so far as to not add 'fed by conspiracy theories'.