Anyone else experience ocd related to phone?

I have recently switched themes and now I have like 6 emails 4 old ones and 2 new I created to keep everything organized because one of the emails started getting a lot of adult content spam and I felt gross and that made me feel like that email is messed up now so I need to transfer everything over and delete unused accounts and separate emails for shopping and social media and then when I forget and use the wrong account for social media I want to start over all over again and create another email because what if that email gets sold and gets gross spam.Also when I have a image pop up in my head I don’t like I think to take a shower to reset or clean to reset the area I’m in.Are all of these things ocd?please help.Im out of therapy atm and I don’t know what any of this means.

Guest1488484

Date posted: 14w

Yes. I have separate email addresses for social media confirmation, work, medical. If I used my primary email for it all it would feel contaminated or wrong and I would have to delete it. I also have phone cleansing rituals where I restart and delete apps and reset the phone

tryingtoheal7

Date posted: 14w

@Guest1488484 Wow it’s nice to know I’m not the only one.Its frustrating because having 6 emails is overwhelming but I don’t want everything to be mixed up.I don’t even want to sign up for things any more out of fear of a data breach.It feels like a second full time job to keep everything in order and okay no matter what the theme is and I thought I only felt like that because of my last themes but this one is just as time consuming and stressful because I’m still trying to keep things good and keep the spam away and make sure everything is organized or else I’ll lose something or there will be a data breach.

Guest1488484

Date posted: 14w

@tryingtoheal7 I get you. I have many times been blocked by Gmail from creating a new email and have felt terrible distress. I don't know how many email addresses I've gone through. I keep creating new ones just in case I ever need them.

bubu$

Date posted: 14w

I have 4 emails to try and keep things separated but I think broadening the categories of each email can help reduce the amount of accounts you’re using, that’s helped me a bit. also try to work on not worrying about each email becoming contaminated or hacked into, remember that other people don’t think like this and don’t take these preventative measures and email hacking doesn’t seem to be a big everyday issue for everybody right?

tryingtoheal7

Date posted: 14w

@Helpmepls! I already created them and I also have obsessions on losing things so I won’t ever delete them but having them alone is overwhelming.Idk it’s so contradicting :(

bubu$

Date posted: 14w

@tryingtoheal7 ooh i see well since it’s already so overwhelming you definitely don’t need anymore 🙂‍↕️

Rumin

Date posted: 14w

Oh yeah, I can relate to this. I have a few different emails for different twitter accounts and stuff. Initially used for different art accounts on twitter/instagram, but have since deleted some. Now the emails are just there, and it definitely can feel like digital clutter. When my anxiety gets bad and I spiral into rumination I can relate to the need of wanting to “clean” the phone or accounts.

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