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Obessive emailing

Ang93

Does anyone else have a problem with obsessive emailing?

When I send an email, I experience deep anxiety about what I've said and whether the person will reply or not.

This usually results in my sending more emails to try and correct what I've said or seek reassurance from the person I'm emailing.

I can spend hours doing nothing, lying in my bed, obsessing over whether the person will reply. 

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  • I don't exactly do that, but I have a thing where I sometimes get very anxious about saying something in the right way when I'm emailing someone semi-important (i.e I want to be polite but not too formal, not too casual, not asking too much of someone, not sounding stupid). This can lead to me spending up to 3 hours editing it to make it sound right before I send it. Haven't done that for a while though so hopefully I'm over it.

    The advice I was given was to imagine the person reading the email and remember that they are probably very busy and will probably skim it quite fast so it doesn't really matter if what you said is perfect. 

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  • I don't exactly do that, but I have a thing where I sometimes get very anxious about saying something in the right way when I'm emailing someone semi-important (i.e I want to be polite but not too formal, not too casual, not asking too much of someone, not sounding stupid). This can lead to me spending up to 3 hours editing it to make it sound right before I send it. Haven't done that for a while though so hopefully I'm over it.

    The advice I was given was to imagine the person reading the email and remember that they are probably very busy and will probably skim it quite fast so it doesn't really matter if what you said is perfect. 

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