When You've Been Doxxed

🛡 When You’ve Been Doxxed:

A Grounded, Compassionate Protocol for Safety & Self-Protection

🧭 1. Stop. Anchor. Breathe.

Even five seconds of grounding can protect your nervous system from spiraling into freeze.

Try:

• Pressing your palms into your thighs and saying:
  “I am here. I am not what they posted.”

• Splashing cold water on your face or holding something textured (fabric, rock, blanket).

• Naming 3 things that feel still in your space.

You do not have to respond instantly. Safety first. Story later.

🔐 2. Secure Your Digital Presence

Begin with what you can control. This is your Zar’eth shield—your structure of protection.

⬛ Priority Actions:

• Change passwords immediately (email, socials, banking—use strong, unique phrases).

• Enable 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) on all accounts.

• Lock down profiles (make socials private, limit who can comment/message/tag).

• Search your name to see what’s been leaked and how widely.
  
  

Use tools like:

• HaveIBeenPwned (to check if your email has been in any data leaks)

• Google Remove Outdated Content (to request takedowns)
  
  

🧵 3. Document Everything

Even if you don’t plan to report now—gathering evidence gives you choice later.

• Screenshot the doxxing post (URL, time, context)

• Save threatening DMs, emails, or comments

• Note usernames, platforms, and dates

• If it’s on Discord or Reddit, copy ID numbers (enable Developer Mode)

Keep it all in a private, secure folder—either locally or on an encrypted cloud service.

📣 4. Report & Request Support

You are not overreacting. Many platforms will respond when the request is clear and documented.

Reporting:

• Report posts and users directly on each platform (choose “harassment” or “private info”)

• Use trusted contacts to report on your behalf if you feel too overwhelmed

• Reach out to moderators/admins of servers or fandom spaces where harm originated
  
  

Support:

• Ask a trusted friend to monitor your socials

• Share only what you feel ready to

• If needed, have someone post on your behalf:
  “[Name] is taking space for safety reasons. Please do not speculate or reach out privately.”
  
  

🤝 5. Who to Talk To (Beyond Platforms)

• Trusted friends who know your whole context
  Choose those who will listen first, not problem-solve immediately.

• Mental health providers
  Online exposure is a trauma. You are not being dramatic. Therapists with experience in digital trauma or complex PTSD can help ground your story.

• Organizations that specialize in digital safety:

  • Crash Override Network (For survivors of online abuse)

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (Legal resources and guides)

  • HeartMob by Right To Be (Real-time support for online harassment)

  • PEN America Online Harassment Field Manual

• Legal Aid or Cybercrime Units (if needed)
  If the doxxing leads to stalking, threats, or swatting, document and contact your local cybercrime unit. Keep your own record even if authorities are slow to respond.
  
  

🌒 6. Energetic Recovery Matters Too

Even after the threat fades, your body might still be holding it.

Try:

• Logging off for 48+ hours. Your body deserves stillness.

• Doing a cleansing ritual: deleting drafts you never posted, burning a list of what they tried to take.

• Saying aloud:
  “They did not invent my name. I take it back with breath.”

And if that’s too much? Just sit in quiet. Let your pulse return to your own name.

🌿 Final Reminder:

Doxxing tries to collapse your sacred inner world into searchable facts.
But you are not your metadata.
You are breath, story, and sacred complexity. You are more than what they exposed.