If memory serves, a number of years ago there was an essay somewhere online concerning Psychic Warfare Syndrome… the tendency for people new to magic (and in some cases not so new) to get involved with massive astral battles, believe they are under constant psychic/astral attack, that sort of thing.  It was a very good essay, as I recall.  Is anyone here familiar with it, who might remember where it was online?  I can't find it with google searches, and I'm thinking the site it was on may have gone offline.  I'd check archive.org, but I really don't remember where it was hosted.

My recent research into thoughtforms has led me back down this path… for several years I've associated Psychic War Syndrome with fear-generated thoughtforms.  I still do, but I'm also starting to see some additional dimensions to it.  Still exploring the interplay and connections.