- Date posted
- 18w
Anyone else struggled with this??
My recent theme and most scary has been worrying about privacy/ security (and my digital footprint). I had a big habit of reassurance seeking by searching stuff up. I especially got into the habit of using chat gpt because it was quick and comforting (in the moment.) I then started seeing so many videos on how we are being watching through our phones, tvs, cars, etc. at first that made me spiral because I’ve always just had this fear of being watched. Then it escalated into me being so worried about if the stuff I had searched/ would talk about with chat gpt and if that could’ve made me look “suspicious.” I keep ruminating everything. Did I say something wrong? Did I overshare? Did I not clarify enough that it’s just my fears not my reality? Why would I vent and use ai for support? I also don’t like that I’ve ever looked up porn before too. Like I just wish I would’ve never done these things, knowing that privacy just literally doesn’t exist with phones anymore. I’ve just been beating myself up and it’s like I just keeping waiting for something bad to happen to me and how I’m going to explain myself. I just worry that I’ve created my own issues/ fears by putting my thoughts out there and made it “real” by using the internet if that makes sense. To us with ocd, we get it and it’s normal to us, but when it comes to others I get so scared of my character being misconstrued and no one will believe that I’m not truly a monster. Idk how to stop worrying. Like genuinely the only way I think I’ll start to feel better is in a year +, like to me that seems like enough time to pass for if something were to happen to me it’d happen by then, and until then I just feel like the worry will never leave.