For me personally having both sensory and auditory processing disorders along with my anxiety and being an empath causes me to need the energy/spoons to go through unread emails en-mass when they build up and I always get a huge sense of relief afterwards like I’m no longer anxious about them because they usually build up close to 100 emails sometimes and that really bothers me when that happens.

I was going a little too crazy for a while with my e-mail feeling like every time one came in I needed to do something about it asap or it would bother me seeing them build up every time one came in on my phone so I changed mine to only fetch emails once an hour or when I’m actively in my inbox and that had a dramatically reduced effect on my anxiety about them so it doesn’t nearly bother me like it used to.

I just successfully went through some unread emails and deleted old read ones just sitting there and dramatically reduced the inbox down again and now I only have 42 unread emails which are 95% related to my health insurance through work so I just have to find the time/spoons to go through them at some point and deal with the probably mostly expired notifications by now but I’m so happy that’s all that’s left and it’s a huge weight off of my shoulders.

Anyone else like me have their anxiety triggered by emails too?  How do you cope with it?