Here's a post from a blog concerning the subject of Therapists being able to discern cases of mental illness from cases of GangStalking/Harassment, where the perpetraitors of such deliberately attempt to drive the person insane to either discredit, silence, or otherwise ride themselves of individuals they feel "know to much":

"Re: Anger management. I think as therapists you are well-served by keeping an open mind. Especially with new phenomena like cyberstalking, electronic harassment, and group stalking and old phenomena of ritualized harassment like mob/KKK harassment and the masonic "white glove treatment". Or even good old-fashioned attempts by a company to smear someone that may have a serious case against them. These things do exist and someone being subjected to them can sound and look very distressed. Since the goals of such efforts are often to intimidate, smear, discredit, and drive "crazy" the targeted person you may unwittingly doing the bidding of some very bad criminal actors.

The masonic harassment is particularly ritualized and sinister - it involves provoking and harassing someone continually until they become exasperated and respond in some manner. Then this response is recorded and documented as an indication of how "unstable", "crazy", "dangerous", etc. the person is. In effect playing games with cause and effect. The harassers as a group may have broken dozens of laws and committed dozens of torts in an effort to provoke someone into responding in some "unstable" manner that they can "document" and use as "evidence", often with the help of unwitting bystanders..."

Link for the Blog in Question:

http://drhelen.blogspot.com/2005/11/for-men-its-1962.html