How do you deal with someone obsessed with you?

[RefurbishedApparatus]

Someone ever got too attached to ya? maybe just a little too much for your own liking y'know.

Whether you made someone mad or that someone is a bit too much in love with you (or whatever situation you are/were involved): What would you do? or, better said, what would be the best course of action (in your opinion) for such situation?

this is a serious question

 

[DankSmoker]

@Joshua Connor Tomar pls respond I crave your attention.

 

[Liquid denim]

A woman at work became really attached to me because I was "funny" and older. It became a bit obsessive and the only thing that made it stop was she was still living with her parents and they were moving across the country.

Best course of action: be as autismo and direct as possible in what you want, that goes for both continuing or ending a relationship

 

[Drone]

Personally I follow a pretty straight-forward rule: do not reward blatant obsession with the attention the obsessed is seeking. Don't respond, don't acknowledge their advances, don't even block them. Any form of acknowledging their obsession is a reward for them, and does nothing but fuel more obsession on their part.

I regularly deal with parasocial relationships and various forms of unstable individual. Very consistently, I've noticed that simply not giving the obsessed any time of day results in their obsession burning itself out. Usually this doesn't take more than a week, but sometimes this can take a few months.

The handful that are not deterred from realizing they're attempting to interact with a brick wall instead need some way of successfully invoking self-awareness. If the obsessed has relatively sane peers, then this will inevitably happen on it's own (as those with sufficiently strong obsessions always end up sharing it with their friends. If you're lucky, they'll ridicule the obsessed for you, far more efficiently than anyone else would be able to). If not: Good luck, you might as well block them.

Note that it also helps a lot to keep a good sense of humor about it. The less seriously you take the obsessed, the better, regardless of the exact type of obsession you're dealing with.

 

[Google.com]

Start talking about Reddit and crypto.

 

[Albino Sasquatch]

Marry them

 

[We Are The Witches]

Heavily depends on the circumstance, making a list of this is unreasonable as it'll be a text-wall.

If someone is mad at you at work or something, maybe report them (if you can get evidence of their offense it's better), but this is not the same thing as if like a family member does this. In which case maybe trying to solve the situation first by talking to them, then if unsuccessful cutting ties with them could be a way.

If they're really bothersome, honesty first, if nothing changes, you can deem them as unreasonable and try different approches.

 

[SentinentCloud]

i use my very sizable rich man cane when i walk down the streets to mantain the distance of the dirty plebians around me so for me thats no issue

 

[Pruto]

lol I actually got rid of a weird stalker when I was in highschool just by boring her to death with my nerdy hobbies and faggot personality.

 

[F00LS_3RRAND]

Kill them.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

-Talk about car, this supposes, of course, that he isn't into cars, doesn't have a driving license and/or outright hates them. I am not even into cars that much, but can talk about them as long as it's necessary.
-Talk about climbing and via ferrata, if the man is afraid of heights and/or has weak arms and is fat.
-Talk about nihilist materialism and existantial nihilism especially if he's religious, POW and he's gone.
-Be or act fully autistic, I mean more than before - some guys might find it charming and mysterious (so it's also the reason for their obsession in first place), right until it's not after some time.