Hello, everyone, I have a problem that's been bugging me for the past couple of months, for you it may seem silly, but to a chronic overthinker such as myself, I've been wondering what exactly wrong with me. Am I a "Worrywort?". You see it all started with me talking with this girl I met online from another country. She's nice and we've had our ins and outs but we managed to always talk things over. We're cool now, however, before we even talked things out, we had a big argument via text. As I was scrolling on my phone to show her pictures of my current situation to better help her understand, I made a mistake and clicked on the photo containing my personal information which also contained my mother's social security number, but it was small, however if you zoomed in, you could still see it. I panicked to the point of my whole body catching the shivers, I've made a dumb mistake and it was out of my power to fix it. She also said she " Hated Me" which made it even worse, but what was done was done. In my mind, at the time I wasn't planning on talking to her anymore, and that everything was done. I blocked her and was going to move on...But then A thought crossed my mind that's been nagging me ever since, what she uses my mother's Social Security for herself, that would put my mother in danger of identity theft and it would be all my fault, so maybe I should add her back and talk with just to see if she really was going to do something like that. Well, I unblocked her and she asked why I said I was sorry which kind of went both ways you know. I was sorry for arguing and most importantly I wanted to check and see if she going to talk about what I feared the most. That she was going to use my mother's information for herself and other expenses. Well...Many months pass and not even a hint of it was said, she's also not the type of person that would do something like that, she's a Christian and God-fearing woman. I have no proof of the matter, but the irrational thoughts within my mind egging me on, to a what-if scenario that won't happen. We talk all the time now, and are better friends than we were before, but why am I still having these irrational thoughts popping up throughout the day saying that my mother's information is in jeopardy? Am worrying over nothing. My mother's fine, nobody has called about anything of the sort, but why does my mind linger towards such a harsh time that has been completely dissolved. Could it be because I had a panic attack about that, I never been so distraught and scared in my entire life. Or is that I can't forgive myself for the mistake that was made...Everyone makes mistakes...I know that..but why can't I move past a simple what-if that will won't come to be.
-Thanks for taking the time to read about my petty problem.-