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She probably has deleted it, ocd will make you fixate on things that seem like life altering threats. She probably hasn’t looked at that email since you sent it maybe a few times after that. I’m sure she is busy with her life, kids, family, schedule, bills. She’s not focusing on that email. You shouldn’t either. Life happens and if you reached out for help I’m sure she cares about you. It’s hard to not have control of what stresses us out especially if it involves trauma. But you will be okay and that email is not as important as the emotional response you have about the email itself. Let yourself be upset, acknowledge your discomfort and allow yourself to accept that you can not control all outward stresses. Allow yourself to release this from your burdens. I’m sure this has caused you anguish but know you will be okay.
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She is single. I understand that she is probably busy, but it doesn’t take that long to do.
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@I eat boys What if you reach out and she doesn’t respond or she says no, you’ll be under more stress. With all the love in the world I tell you as a friendly human to let it go for your own sanity. ?
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@ThreeLittleBirds Thank you, but it bothers me so much that I’m ready to vomit :(
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@I eat boys It’s more about the stress of not having control I’ve been there. It’s okay to feel sick over it it’s a normal emotion but if it’s causing you panic you have to know it’s ocd forcing you to fixate on it. It’s been 2 years that email is not going to affect you and if it does you’ll deal with it. Don’t let yourself be consumed over something you can not control. Even if you ask politely you won’t be able to watch her press the delete button.
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Chances are she deleted it a long time ago. If you’re still close to her, you could ask, but remember that it’s a temporary fix. The best thing to do is work with your therapist on how to handle these obsessions.
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If u can explain the situation to her and you think she will understand then I think it might be fine (again I don’t know the situation) but if it was 2 years ago it’s probably so lost in her inbox she probably doesn’t have it anywa
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Do you happen know how outlook works? I’m hoping that they automatically delete emails after 2 years. But again I have no idea.
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Even if she deletes it, it still lives online on some server somewhere. This would seem weird to her likely and I think it’s overstepping. This is OCD, not a legitimate concern. Do your best to deal with the anxiety. Some ERP with scripting may be useful here. Write out the worst case scenario and read it to yourself 10-20x a day for a week. See if the anxiety associated naturally dissipates. It will likely seem waaaaay less important later on in your life.
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Hey, what exactly do you mean by overstepping?
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@I eat boys It seems pretty controlling to me. Especially when I think we can all tell that this email has likely already been deleted or is archived and will probably never be revisited or even thought of again. Don’t let your OCD win on this one. I know you’re anxious, but when you’re not eventually, you’ll wish you hadn’t reached out and feel embarrassed.
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@pureolife I feel embarrassed asking about asking if I should or not. This post was yesterday and I do feel a shit ton much better after getting some rest, although I’m glad I took it to NOCD first to get it off my chest.
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@I eat boys *asking about if I should or not
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@I eat boys I’m glad you took it here first too! And great job resisting long enough for the anxiety to subside and clarity of mind to reappear.
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I really need help. Almost 3 years ago I was in a discord server with some kids at my school, and it was normal to send funny photos of our face to the group chat. I sent a few silly pictures of me but they are just really embarrassing and stupid. One time, a kid from the group chat sent me a photo I sent and it’s just so bad looking back, and I was really worried about him sending it to others and etc. Later I deleted my account in fear of it being there, even though I couldn’t find it in the group chat at that point. Roughly a year later, I was invited to join this group chat again so I did (2 months ago), but I was looking at the beginning of the groupchat and I saw these photos and it made me start panicking and just worrying if other have these photos saved and if they sent it to other people. It’s been 3 days since I found this and I can’t stop thinking about it, and just worrying because no one can remove these photos without deleting the groupchat, and I know the owner won’t do that. I just keeping thinking about the people in the groupchat seeing these photos and sending it to others because it’s insanely embarrassing to a point where I’m crying thinking about it, and I don’t want others to ever see it. Is there anything I can do to remove these photos?
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I was very close friends with a girl last year, so close we were like sisters. But eventually, she treated me and my twin sister terribly. (one upping me, lying to me, trauma dumping on me and not being there for me at all in return, lowkey praying on me and my boyfriend breaking up.) I tried confronting her but it kept getting worse, and with so much stress it came to a head. She came to me saying her boyfriend was doing some really bad things to her. I told her it would get worse, that she needed to leave, and that she was in an unsafe position. She didn’t listen, she insisted she loved him. She would barely tell me because “it would make me mad” Eventually I sobbed to my mom about it, who contacted her mother but nothing was done. The next day, with the stress I was going through being in the middle of competing frequently, college prep, everything she told me, how i felt about her treating me became too much and I blew up at her. I yelled and cussed and to this day I regret it. I would spiral about it. No matter how many times people told me I was okay and my feelings were valid, it took me so long to stop believing I was a terrible person. I tried to cut her off and it didn’t fully happen until she lied to me about coming to a VERY important event and SHE told ME we couldn’t be friends. Since then I’ve had so much hatred towards her but still a lot of care, that it became an obsession. I got to college and told all of my friends about it who validated me. Through this, the hatred wound down. But I still couldn’t help but want to see what she was doing. To me she has always been better than me. I wanted to BE her. I was, and still am, a little jealous of her. She looks perfect, dresses perfect, and just is perfect to everyone. I unblocked her, re followed her, reached out and apologized. She apologized to me, and said she had been thinking about our friendship a lot and was glad I reached out. My parents didn’t like that I reached out because she created tension between me and my sister. My sister says that what I did was valid and supports me. My boyfriend supports me because he loves me so much and will always support me, but still doesn’t like her because of her unsupportiveness of our relationship. My friends question why I would even do something like that. I think it made me feel better, but I think my thoughts and feelings about our friendship, and how much I wanted to be like her, and how much I regretted how our friendship ended, and how betrayed I felt became an obsession for me, and I fear reaching out was a compulsion. She’s been really nice and I’m glad we’re on good terms but I think she wants to be closer than I want to be, simply because she’s in high school, I’m in college, and I don’t think it’s a good idea to be super close again. Idk I think I feel better about it but I’m a little worried. What should I do moving forward? I don’t want to cut her off, but I can’t be best friends with her again.
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