Approximately one month ago I became dead-set convinced my best friend hates me and is talking behind my back. As a response I started to distance myself more and more, nowadays we barely talk and the paranoia is driving me up the wall. I have this nagging feeling he's talking shit about me behind my back and writing callouts on the internet. I don't want to go through the third witch hunt. He's pretty well known for gossiping about people (even the ones he's friend with) and I don't know how to avoid this for myself. I have been mass-deleting months worth of messages and quitting all mutual servers but everytime I even think of him I feel anxious. I can't take it that much longer