When I was a kid (like age 12-15ish) sometimes I’d get super paranoid that someone on the train or in public was reading my mind and at first it made me worry that they’d see what I was thinking and think I was a bad person but after a while I started just responding to the paranoia by thinking at them like “what the fuck bro, this is a huge invasion of privacy, what is wrong with you. mind your damn business” and yes it was weird but you know what?? It worked