Devastating good(?) news today: I finally reached out to a publisher I more-or-less assumed was ghosting me for three years and he immediately replied to say he had accepted the manuscript years ago and assumed *I* was ghosting *him* (I have no record of ever receiving a reply)
This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.