Being watched over by god and paranoia induced by CCTV

We live in a world covered by electronic surveillance. Central London is
plaster with visible and invisible cameras watching our every move. I
have a paranoia of being watched all the time. It's a perception that
doesn't come from my rational mind but from anther place.

Two hundreds years ago I may have gone through the same internal
experience of feeling monitored or watched. There wasn't CCTV or
anything like what we have today. There was god though. Religion
explained that the feeling of being watched was god. This explanation
may have come about because the people who wrote the books and the books
were written about went through psychosis however it wasn't
pathologised. The culture of the time gave people a way to understand it
and people who went through this experience and weren't pathologised may
have given the culture the explanation. In modern secular times this
isn't so simple. The feeling of being watched can bring distress to many
people but it's worse when a person's going through psychosis. It's not
a divine being but a fascist state that seeks to know everything about
an individual for control and regulation purposes. Or worse. A mind
going through psychosis is a creative and imaginative mind. The
creativity can get bent and negative without the positive cultural
explanations of the experience.