I still have some guilt and sometimes think about the situation. It has been some months since the incident occurred and I am still having difficulty letting go of the conversations I had with the other person. One of my toxic thoughts after the incident is that I have ruined my life and the other person’s life. I shouldn’t think like this, as it will make my life miserable. I tend to focus on my negative thoughts instead of the positive ones. How can I stop dwelling on the negative and turn to the positive?
Having a guilty conscious is definitely hard, especially in a situation like this. I don’t think you “ruined the other person’s” life by a long shot. Your decisions are your own, and it’s up to that person themself to make their life better.
I think you made you and your father’s lives better by a long shot. I promise you that I think 100% that person wanted to scam you. They say things like “oh I have my visa but I need x amount of money to come back here” to trick you. Then, once you send it, it’s either “not enough” and they need more, or “it’s not here and I need a payment resent”. I’ve actually never heard of a situation like this ending up to be true.
If it helps any, a YouTuber named Kitboga advocates for HeartSupport, and he calls scam numbers to waste their time from potentially harming a victim, and sometimes even gets the information to bank accounts they stole, and reports them to bank fraud specialists. His YouTube channel is here if you’d like to take a look: https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow
Hopefully this will help put your mind at ease, and help you watch out for a situation like this if it arises again.
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