I don’t think it’s the right place for this kind of message (or you just open a pandora box of totally not related world news from everybody for everything). .
But good luck for your recovery! You should have watched Die Hard and learnt from John McClane than going barefoot around glass and metal is not a good idea...
Make sure to click on "show all" button (or equivalent button of your app) once in the messages tab. Once visible, mark them as read so they won’t remain as "active" unread message.
I had this behavior with my app that was considering the messages read (so hidding them by default when going to the messages tab) once i opened it while not marking it read on lemmy side (hence the 7 unread messages displayed)
Took me week to find how to solve that :-)