u/MartithArt

As in the title. How do I select "do not predict" for emojis that have skin color settings attached to them? Nothing seems to work. Long click just opens the menu for choosing the skin tone, but no option to ask for not predicting thie emoji ever again.

It's driving me nuts, especially that recently SwiftKey began predicting completely different emojis to what it used to and I'm trying to make it go back to how it was for me by removing the specific emoji predictions. But these ones with selectable skin tones are annoyingly (seemingly) impossible to make "do not predict".

I'm sorry, it will be a long one.

Had a bit of a trouble making the title coherent, but I have trouble finding answers online to my specific problem. Most advice about overthinking is about things that likely won't ever happen or already happened, and the main advice is basically "accept that you can't do anything about them." But here's the thing, I struggle with rumination about things I know I technically could do something about, right when they are happening - but I end up doing nothing, and that fact alone makes it extremely difficult to let it go.

More context: about a year ago I've developed a misophonia trigger which is neighbors' dogs barking, especially 3 specific ones, each coming from a different side of the neighborhood. They are loud, high-pitched, and once they start, they will bark constantly; especially at night. Every time I hear one of them, I have an immediate anxiety reaction - heart rate goes up, I start shaking, feel helpless and want to cry or scream, I stress and that all leads to hyperfocusing on the sound and overthinking. First about how inconsiderate the neighbors are, then imagining myself doing "something about it", like: going to the neighbor to talk; report on neighbors' group or city reports app; report to the administration; calling the police etc. which ultimately leads nowhere for multiple reasons:

• I'm generally scared of confrontation,
• I don't want to be "that neighbor", as it seems I'm the only one bothered to that level,
• I've seen some neighbors' reaction to being asked for silence, they usually argue and refuse to adapt, with dogs is always the "that's just their nature" argument,
• I'm living in a different country and my language skills and understanding of social rules are limited,
• The same also goes for calling the police/security, I don't even know where to call and I feel insecure about my inability to speak fluently, making a mistake and getting in trouble,
• With one of these dogs in particular I can see the house from my apartment above, but it's a weird parcel where 3 properties are at the same address, one behind another, locked by a joined gate - and at that gate, 3 doorbells that just have A, B, C on them. I don't know the correct doorbell for the problematic house and I don't want to disturb the neighbors that are not part of it all, hence I ultimately don't go there nor feel like I can properly report it to authorities even if I decided to,
• Also with that last house, I can see the lights at home and no one doing anything about their dog barking for half an hour straight even at 2 am, which tells me they don't really care and probably wouldn't care even if I went there/reported them,
• "Doing something" in the past did not help much: I've tried reporting my issues with other two dogs, in both cases nothing changed and my scope of action was somewhat limited from the get-go by me not even really knowing the proper addresses of these houses/apartments.

And with all of those reasons, I keep just getting irritated at the trigger, sort of daydreaming about the scenarios of possible solutions, then doing nothing about them, and being left with that feeling of "but what if this/that solution actually helped? What if I should do it?", then thinking of the reasons why I can't, following the return of "but what if these are just excuses? What if I did that?" and I just keep going over it in a loop - which usually leads to a stressful breakdown and lots of crying.

I really would just like to start taking some mental action against this particular overthinking situation as a step towards peace of mind. Anyone here that has dealt with something similar? I would be grateful for any advice, thank you so much in advance.