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: In some of us, this fear results from having been watched too much, too intently, when we were too young. It wasn't just the plain weirdness of being watched, but why our watchers watched us: They made us believe that, unwatched, we would shame ourselves, shame them, blunder, or die. They said that the second we slipped out of sight, we would wet our pants, have seizures, shoplift. They said they could see through walls and straight into our minds. They watched us bathe and sleep. Somehow, we'd forfeited our right to privacy. Hold still. Have you gained weight? Is that a pimple or a deadly parasite?