What would happen if somebody "intelligence swatted" you?

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So…

I was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 29 after an incident at work where i thought my manager’s boss asked me “are you CIA? our chief [xxx] officer is ex-[xxx] intelligence”. And in addition to that I felt that I was tripping despite not having taken anything in the recent past that might cause this. And then an incident a year later that involved identity theft.

I’ve been trying to figure out for years why someone would ask that. And I’ve finally got a plausible reason.

An intelligence swatting.

Being the receipt of a letter or package by a manager with a compromising photo of an employee who just started (nothing illegal) and perhaps a list of information about the employee - some items true, some items false (not that you would know which was which).

Would you:

  1. Confront the employee directly, tell them about the package and its contents and ask for an explanation;

  2. Let go of / fire the employee;

  3. Test or help course correct the employee - possibly through the use of stories, analogies, etc.

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Check out forum.schizophrenia.com. It’s for people with psychosis. I’m on there. You might get more response in that forum rather than the family one

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Yep. I’ve had ~4 x psychoses. Got a diagnosis of schizophrenia and then schizoaffective disorder. I am beginning to believe now that instead it is rather Complex PTSD. I felt as though for a period of time leading up to the scenario described in my first post, I was tripping on acid despite not having taken any in the recent past. Like a bad trip. I am relatively confident I know who might have done this - “dosing” me + above scenario (I was living with them).

All that said, I am an analyst. I break apart / deconstruct systems (or states) to understand how they work. My current situation is that I hold the beliefs that I had whilst in psychosis (previously, between psychoses I had written them off as delusions based upon what the hospital, my parents, friends, family etc were telling me).

But my thoughts are not looping or racing, I am not hypervigilant, I feel as though I am not paranoid or fixating anymore. I actually feel calm and at peace, and no longer feel fearful. My thoughts do not seem disordered. And the conclusion that I have reached is not beyond the realms of possibility and would actually be quite simple to pull off.

You don’t have all the color / context, and I don’t have the time nor inclination to write it all here in a public forum.

Also, during my psychoses I have been able to perform analyst-type duties, albeit at a much lower capacity (due to other stuff pre-occupying my thinking), and I have done so accurately. My “delusions” have all been to do with social interactions and constructs. And have been specific. I have learnt that I do not hear disembodied voices.

Naturally, such a situation is highly unlikely and would seem implausible, but once you eliminate the impossible, no matter how unlikely - the simplest explanation is the most probable.

Finally, although I never learnt this growing up - I have begun to utilize storytelling, analogies, etc to help others who are close to me, whilst ensuring I do not reveal the source of the information I received. And have noticed that it normally causes people to open up.

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