- Date posted
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I fear that someone may leak my real event (Even tho I have deleted all the proofs of it out of embarrasment)
Well,as the title says,I have real event ocd over online activities I already deleted that no longer aline with my values or that I realized if someone sees their perception of me might change the same way it did for me to realize my behaviours were pretty much "not normal".I had a pretty bad flare up last night and ended up confessing in a reddit sub,no one offered reassurance because i clarified i had ocd and possibly shouldn't be doing that and a person who also had OCD gave me some advice on what to do along with what seems to be an official account from NOCD on reddit,wich I appreciate very much,since I can't really afford therapy specialized in OCD 🤕. The thing is I've been pretty paranoid abt people close to me finding out,no one knows abt the reddit account I made but even then I realized i committed the mistake of naming it as any other account of mine,and I can't change the name,along with that,I had a pretty vivid dream of uploading a story to a platform out of boredom and someonr investigating on me and finding out my deleted internet data,wich has made me wonder if I should tell my friends abt my real event just so " They are aware and im not trying to fool them" because honestly the dream made me pretty scared and I think I would rather them to find out from me than from any other person,but at the same time i feel pretty unsure abt doing it because of the uncertainty+ its pretty much reassurance seeking as I have realized that the way I have wanted to approach this topic is the typical "what would you do if someone you knew did this and you had not know". I know this might be flagged as reassurance seeking too sigh but I just wanted to let it out in this account,I won't delete my reddit account as I have been learning to use it and found many communities besides the OCD recovery ones and mental health support that are great and have found many new hobbies i might want to try,so I figured to post this here because I don't feel like leaving any more " proof" of me trying to hide as the "" terrible person"" i may or may not be in the eyes of another+ mine as I have realized that im pretty dependant on what others think of me and it affects me more than I see some other people be affected by it.But meanwhile,im trying to work on the feeling of constant doom and fear of someone just going into the internet as soon as something I do goes slightly viral and exposes me because in my mind this person who could be absolutely ANYONE can have access to data centers and things people have deleted years ago and even knowign what they saw and with what intentions!! I guess its a little bit magical thinking in that sense,but at the same time it feels both super real and like something that its meant to happen and that I have to prepare my friends for (even tho I don't even think i will ever get that much attention as stories and anything you upload to the interner are just viral for a day or two before no one remembered it unless you are EXTREMELY SUCCESFULL on getting people to remain engaged)