This is a newer one for me but I have been an anxious person for many years. Lately I have often been anxious about getting in legal trouble.

For what? I don’t know.

I am only 23 but I was an idiot back in high school and definitely did a lot of illegal stuff back in the day. Given my state does not have a statute of limitations for felonies I convinced myself after all these years I’ve likely done something (again, I don’t know what) that I will end up getting in legal trouble for.

I also often think back and question what all I have done recently. For example, a few times it has been dark when I turned out of the neighborhood the morning. I had convinced myself I probably ran over a kid at the bus stop and had do idea. Definitely going to prison for that one. It’s irrational. I also often feel like I’ve probably broken a bunch of laws and I will be going to prison. What have I done? I don’t know but my mind has convinced myself that I have. Walk to the shower in the morning and there is a small slit in the blinds? Public indecency, sex offender registry, job lost, jail. I hate that my mind thinks this way - and then I struggle to let the thoughts go.

It’s weird and not logical. Again, in high school and grade school I definitely made a lot of mistakes. I was an idiot and grew out of it. Have certainly committed multiple felonies that were never charged but this was years ago. For some reason I fear that coming back to bite me in the ass 6+ years after the fact and if not that I’ve convinced myself I have probably done something over the last year that I have forgotten that is very illegal and I will get in trouble for and lose my job over.

It’s weird. Has anyone ever experienced similar?