Anyone had this delusion that people were avoiding you?

Like you are right there, right in front of them, and they just flat out don’t acknowledge you, but you know this person. Or they ignore you, like when you arrive at school or work and they don’t say hi to you, but they say hi to everybody else. They are friendly to everybody else except you. Or they give curt answers to you when you try talking to them. They know you are standing right there but they just don’t

Anyone had this type of delusion? This is my first post here, my name is Kevin

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I didn’t think this was a delusion. But reckon it’s called delusions of persecution

Everyone’s out to get you, by not being out to get you.

My biggest psychotic break was based on this.

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And welcome Kevin :slight_smile:

Hi Kevin! Welcome to the one of the most colorful places on the web.

Sounds like something I remember from school. I called them “snobs”. The ironic thing though is that I was doing it right back without realizing it.

Being a snob that is.

Maybe they’re turned off to us because we appear different

People fear people who appear “strange” to them

Yeah maybe they pick up on things like that huh

&Thanks for the welcome
@Genbu and Turningthepage

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Normies can be very cruel, especially the ones who think they too cool

We call non sz people “normies” around this neck of the woods btw :wink:

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It used to bother me that people were avoiding me until I realized they probably had a good reason for it and that I was actually not the center of the Universe. When I realized that it mad me feel better.

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Welcome Kevin.

I had this yeah, I assume from the beggining nobody likes me, which is okay because I get pleasant surprises.

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There was this group I used to work with I would think they’d be whispering and looking at my direction I felt they were talking about me. They’d do things like have secret “pot-luck” type lunches then invite me over to the table but never tell me so I felt like wasn’t apart of them…

I eventually quit because my symptoms were so strong at that point and I wasn’t sleeping at night working 7 days a week full 8 hour days. It took almost a year to calm my panic attacks and delusions.

I’d also felt excluded when I went to a local college I was assigned to work with this group of girls but it was hard for me to get around with them because I was on the bus and they weren’t along the bus line.

I found out they were also getting together at lunch time to work on the project. I eventually talked to my teacher about it and they finally asked me join them during lunch one day to work on the project…I always feel people ignore me or worried they can read my thoughts and see I’m not normal like they are and this is why I’m very anti-social…that and being bullied as a kid didn’t help either.

Hi and welcome Kevin!

For me it’s not a delusion, there are people at my work who flat out refuse to acknowledge me.

Thankfully I don’t work in the same team as them anymore.

One day I was standing in the corridor having a chat to another colleague and I saw this one girl who ignores me come out from her work pod with all the makings of tea. She started walking down the corridor towards me, saw me, then turned back and went into her pod.

There’s another guy at work who was outright undermining me, also from my old team, who came into the work kitchen while I was putting away the dishes (our teams take turns at kitchen duties and this month it’s my team). Anyway, I was putting away dishes and he came in to fill up his water bottle. Right next to me. He outright refused to speak to me.

Some people are just jerks.

Had a lot of that during my teenage years. Eventually realized I wasn’t making enough effort to actually acknowledge them either, to get to know them, Sometimes you’ve got to make the first step, and the second, and the third, like you said “you know this person”, don’t need to just wait to be acknowledged, lead. Back then I was just running around in circles in my head interpreting stuff like the fact that the person shook my hand slighty differently than what he did to another or that it didn’t looked me in the eyes the same way as it had looked into another’s. Really draining stuff… Nowadays my attitude is more “You’re not acknowledging me? As long as you don’t act like a douche, thanks for this opportunity to chill!”

And welcome Kevin, I also joined a few days ago :slight_smile:

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things got weird once and i thought i was a ghost

Yeah it’s happened to me, last summer particularly, I was not myself yet conscious of the whole thing. I stopped into the clubhouse I was asked to move back here to help start and not one person looked up at me, just walked in for the first time in months and nobody turned their heads. Eventually, I had to say hello and the only person who responded was one of the staff in sort of an off hand manner.

Yet my length of absence before this after coming back I was given a nicely hand made card signed by nearly everybody there. I don’t kow, I guess I wouldn’t worry about it.

They are either running away from me or coming after me, no inbetweens

Maybe they are just buttholes and we’re different because of the rotten way they treat us.

I’ve had an experience with that too. There was one time that there was a group of like 10-15 people behind my house. I wanted to ask them a question so I yelled at them to get their attention. They just ignored me. I had a similar occurrence happen when I was trying to talk to people at a job interview. They just ignored me too then. Also when I walked around the neighborhood most people seemed to pretend they didn’t see me or look at me with kind of a glare. I don’t know if I am imagining things or not but that is what I experienced. I overheard what I though some people say but I don’t know for certain because I have auditory hallucinations so I won’t count those. I usually don’t pay too much attention to it though.

This is literally me. Everyone hates me. Everyone is out to get me. It’s the only delusion I have that makes me feel depressed

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I’ve experienced this delusion. But at the same time, there’s a part of me that wonders if this delusion was manifested because of my terrible social life. When I was growing up, I didn’t have many friends, though I had an inner circle of girls that were considered ‘outcasts’ or just didn’t want to or belong in any other groups. When I did try to develop friendships with others, they were usually short-lived or there were factors that couldn’t lead to chemistry with each other. Along the way, the delusion started developing and I was convinced that they were avoiding me intentionally. :confused: