Hi, I wanted to ask for some input. I think i'm obsessed/fixated on someone i talked to on a dating site. I have never met him in person. Stranger still is that i reported him twice on that site and got him banned.

Let me explain what happened as best as i can. He initiated contact with me on the site mid-2017. He linked me to his fb account so i could check him out. After some light banter over a 2-day period he asked if i'd date someone in another country (he lives abroad), and i said no. I meant it. That was the end of it.

After a few weeks i deleted my account and opened a new one. Blocked his profile because i'd already turn him down. He created a new account to message me so i reported him and blocked him. Then he created a third account to message me again. Reported it to site mods and his ip address got banned.

This was when the obsessiveness started. I ended up checking his fb account and even made a fake account to see his public posts though i never initiated contact or added him. Looked up his whole family on social media. Kept googling him and the school that i think he goes to.

Looked up his youtube likes and comments. Etc.

The impulse to look him up comes and goes. How am i fixated on someone i've never met in person, and who actually creeped me out at first? I intend to take this up with a psych in a few weeks' time. I'm aware that the fixation is unnatural. I am diagnosed with a mood disorder.

The thing is, i wouldn't know what to do or say if i actually met him face to face. I likely will not try to date him still, so the fixation strikes me as odd.