Phone when I was reading an article. How do I get my phone back to just me on it? They’re going to get my personal information. I can’t login to anything because they’ll get my passwords. What can I do?
If your phone is hacked, the only thing you can do is go to a professional, take out the card with memory on it, and try to be aware that if its your main protal to your emails that they might be compromised or need to be changed in a hurry.
I believe you can go to a library and change your pass words, but as for your phone, you need to take out the battery or something.
Tell people in your contacts lists in another medium that your phone has been hacked and to not click any links you send.
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Ok. Thanks @Ryanana
I contacted Apple about my phone. They helped me out, it’s not a virus. I’m still concerned. Maybe one of the men who follow me are spying on me right now. I’m not sure
No one is following you @LilyoftheValley
Just keep telling yourself that you are experiencing delusions.
You can control a lot of this if you put a little effort into it.
I know it’s not easy but a little CBT will go a long way
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I’m so sorry.
I gave you advice but I didn’t give you my sincerest attention.
It seems you struggle a bit with paranoia. I want you to rethink about what led you to being suspicious of your phone, and then think about how that resolved.
Life in a lot of ways doesn’t need to be as stressful as we can make it.
Do you live near these people and you follow a schedule and they’re just on their way home?
Do you dabble with elements of crime? If not, you probably aren’t being followed.
Are you cheating on a significant other and they have a vested financial interest in discovering your behavior? If not, you’re probably not being followed. And if you were being followed they weren’t professionals.
If we go through an earnest review of the information at hand, we can weaken the feeling of credibility these things can have.
The danger is that information goes both ways, the way you use it, can attribute to the problem.
I sincerely hope you live without over worrying. To a degree being wary of strangers is fine, but going over board is not good either. To a degree we have to live with unknowns, and even if we live perfectly normal lives, things can happen but, you seem to be expressing that this is ongoing and has been for a while.
These people are “following” as in, they haven’t done anything. Let me ask you, are you losing any random amounts of money? Are you actively being harmed in a current fashion?
No one does things long term without an end goal, and if the end goal is that they’re going to harm you in some way, ambiguously following you seems to be a poor way of doing it.
Please thouroughly think about this, maybe you’ll think this through and this instance of paranoia will go away, but maybe something new will happen.
You have to be aware that you are likely to be paranoid, and its likely going to be ongoing problem for you in your life.
The medications may eventually fix this if you are changing them, but if you feel good on what you are on now, you need to feel some sort of therapeutic relief from this paranoia and an earnest thinking through of this scenario will help.
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Thanks @Ryanana. I’ll try to focus on that
leave the Navy seals out of this phone situation…they aren’t doing anything…as a matter of fact all of the navy seals are out on missions away from the united states…chasing terrorists…things like that, see? when are you going to be stable…? do you tell your pdoc these things?? @LilyoftheValley
I think you are delusional @LilyoftheValley 
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I always tell my pdoc. I saw her today in fact and told her today.
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ok…I don’t know why you are so semi stable and still function as well as you do…? poor zmagal.
I was being sincere @LilyoftheValley i hope you didn’t think otherwise. I feel very bad for you.
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Apple is pretty safe but I use Nortons on it anyways. I pay for my computer so you get two devices so it’s a no brainer to use it on phone still.
It’s hard to hack unless your hitting dodgy sites. Usual use and your pretty safe but mobile tech has it’s gremlins. Stupid stuff still happens and that doesn’t even mean anything…I think that is the trouble.
Paranoid thinking brings the worst possible outcomes and it often isn’t so. I’m sorry you struggle with this but if you change your passwords and don’t go to dodgy websites or such your pretty safe. We often think the worst for sure and that paranoia can be so seductive.
Hang in there @LilyoftheValley but work on that paranoid thinking. I’m glad you share it with your doctor and that is the start.
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If your worried about it take your phone into a shop. They can diagnose it.
Also change all your passwords. Its good practice to change them every now and then.
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I don’t know much about phones so I don’t know what is or isn’t possible but no lie or delusion my computer was just hacked and taken over yesterday. I reset it to factory state and lost them hopefully.
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I was at a site that had an article about what happened to the couples from season 7 of a tv show. Not sure if it was dodgy or not.
Regardless, I contacted Apple and we cleared out my phone etc so it should be ok for now
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I’m sorry to hear that @Leaf. Were you able to fix it?
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yes, I saw that they renamed the pc and changed the internet connection and immediately reset to factory settings. I have all my photos and anything else backed up on thumb drives already.
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