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How to stop obsessing over sent messages

I check my sent emails obsessively looking for typos I cannot fix anymore and wondering what people think of my mistakes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The inability to release control extends beyond the moment of completion into endless mental replay.

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