Title: Do You Feel Like You're Always Being Watched? | Psychology Today
Headings: Do You Feel Like You're Always Being Watched?
S. Rufus
Do You Feel Like You're Always Being Watched?
Some of us were observed too intently, too constantly, when we were young.

Content: Some of us cloaked ourselves in rituals and chemicals. Some of us lost all faith in subterfuge and lived as if in zoos — perpetually naked and afraid. article continues after advertisement
And so some of us stay, forever facing huge imaginary microscopes and telescopes and magnifying glasses held by nonstop watchers real and theoretical. Caught in this fantasy, we walk and talk as if on film. We duck past shiny surfaces, assuming they are two-way mirrors. We dart down streets and aisles as if searchlights hounded our heels. Source: Anneli Rufus
We sit and stand stiffly, like dolls waiting to be picked up and repositioned. Our every hello feels like an interview. We tiptoe everywhere, like trespassers.