You can't send an email without rereading it five times

Let us look at this plainly, because a great deal of care is going somewhere it is not needed. The scrutiny treats an ordinary email as a high-stakes performance — a short message is in reality a small, low-stakes thing, but the anxiety runs it through a high-stakes filter as though it could expose or condemn you, so the stakes in your body do not match the stakes in the world, and the cure is not more care but right-sized care. The rereading is anxiety seeking a certainty it can never reach — the fourth reread does not improve the email but seeks the feeling that nothing could go wrong, a certainty that never arrives because anxiety can always imagine one more thing to check, so it is a loop that feeds on itself rather than a quality process with an end. And set a deliberate limit — one read, then send — since the loop has no natural end, give it one from outside: for ordinary emails, read once and send, sitting with the discomfort as the worry protests, and watch the feared consequence not come, which slowly teaches the anxiety it can let go. Would you try one-read-and-send on the next small email?