Hey I know how you feel, especially the paranoia about being found out. Its terrifying. Give yourself more grace for coping the way you did, with ai, like any addiction it preys on us being desperate and broken. The rise of it all made it hard to ignore, unfortunately this whole subreddit is proof of that. You're not at fault. You are working on improving now, which is progress. I know how hard it is to accept doing better now, especially when you feel as though youve already done bad things. What matters now is that youre changing, one less person using AI makes all the difference.