From Mad in Deutschland: It all started in October 2018 in the quiet, academic atmosphere of Leipzig. I was there to do my doctorate – a dream I had worked towards for years. But after my return from a research stay in China, the retreat of my home began to dissolve. It began with a soft, offensive whisper – “puto” – called through a bathroom window, but soon escalated to a disturbing physical puzzle. My living space was no longer my own; I came back and found the drawers in the bedroom slightly shifted, my Wi-Fi password no longer in place, and – most disturbingly – objects that did not belong to me: a women’s socks, a necklace and a USB stick stuck in the folds of my bedroom curtain. I now know that this was gaslighting – a deliberate psychological sabotage aimed at making the victim doubt his own senses.
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