I would like you, right now if you possibly can, to completely power off your computer. If not now, do so as soon as you can. If you live where you can walk a

I would like you, right now if you possibly can, to completely power off your computer. If not now, do so as soon as you can. If you live where you can walk anywhere nice, like to a park, then do so - leave your phone at home. If you'd like to have something to read, then read something like mark twain rather than the newspaper. What you are experiencing is the specific reason that I keep going on about my opposition to analytics, as well as that I will not apply to analytics jobs and that I use my hosts file to black hole web bugs from analytics servers. I even use tor to read my gmail. While there are at least moderately effective technical countermeasures their diligent use will lead to obsession as well as quite commonly madness. I discussed this with a psychiatrist once who said I was like a soldier who shoots at shadows. I know very well that I am often paranoid as I have accepted that I have Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder. However there are many causes for paranoia. "Just because your paranoid it doesn't mean they aren't really out to get you" can be the quite literal truth in that paranoia often arises in response to very real threats. The difference between paranoia and true persecution is that the intent, motivation or cause to events that are very real and not imaginary are misattributed. Suppose I hear a car backfire and think someone's shooting at me; that's paranoia. But then suppose someone really does shoot at me; that's rational fear. Now suppose people are shooting at me everywhere I go. that's what happens to combat soldiers. Now the soldiers come home and they are like a man I met in a psychiatric hospital who cannot enter a room before finding all the escapes as well as all the firing points. He was even doing that right there in a locked inpatient unit. Puppies or kittens are a good choice but when you spend some time with them, spend time away from your computer.