Dear Eric:

Welcome back to the forums. As you know, I have communicated with you extensively for over 3 years and I (as well as other members) gave you so much input in regard to your overthinking…  so much that it could fill a thick book. I personally suggested to you all that I could possibly suggest again and again.. and yet again… and again.  Basically, you and I both kept repeating ourselves and no progress was made as far as your severe overthinking.

In my most recent post to you, in your previous thread, I wrote on Sept 5 this year: “Dear Eric, Altogether you submitted 34 threads under different accounts since July 2019 and one central theme that persisted through all of them is your overthinking/ obsessive thinking… (On Sept 4, 2022), I wrote to you: ‘Anxiety  is in the core of your obsessive thinking, social anxiety and body dysmorphia. I repeatedly suggested to you over the years to see a medical doctor or a psychotherapist. Did you ever considered seeking professional help (a medical doctor and/or a psychotherapist)…? Your reply (Sept 5, 2022): ‘I haven’t consulted a professional because my parents might thought that I have a major problem and they could be worried, also other problems I feel that I can solve without professional as long as I can convince my mind’…

“The two of us repeated ourselves many, many times through the years of our communication. And the repetition had no positive value to any one of us. I know that (1) Quality professional intervention will help you short-term and long-term, (2) This issue is too big for you (or for any individual person in your place) to be able to solve by yourself, and (3) All responses to your obsessions-of-the-moment throughout the 3 years provided you with ZERO help: the themes of your obsessions persist unchanged. Not only responding to your obsessions-of-the-moment is not helping you- it is harming you because it fuels your obsessive thinking, it keeps it going. Your latest obsession, the mooncake-obsession, seems so BIG and URGENT in your mind… but every obsession seemed big and urgent throughout the history of your obsessions. …

“I will no longer put fuel into your obsessions by responding to them. As you post from now on, I will reply (if you would like me to continue and reply, that is), but I will ignore parts of your posts where you present your obsession-of-the-moment. I will need to be strong and resolute in my commitment to proceed this way.”, Sept 5, 2022.

And today, Oct 12, 2022, I will accordingly respond to your recent post on your older thread and to your original post on this thread: congratulations for going on your first ever date with a young woman I am happy for you!!! I hope that you feel better and sleep better very soon, and that you will have a pleasant second date this coming Sunday!

anita