Apple Mail 250 MILLION incoming messages (Mavericks)

A few weeks ago I upgraded to Mavericks.
Mail was working great but now I'm having all kinds of problems.
I've seen there are lots of other people having similar problems, but one I have not seen anyone post is...
In the "mail activity" window, below the list of mailboxes, I have a HUGE number of incoming messages.
Today it is up to over 250 MILLION incoming messages!!!!! Not hundred, not thousand but MILLION And the number is still increasing!!
In my different emails I may get a maximum (depending on the day) of up to 150 emails, all of which are already loaded on my computer (I end up deleting the majority of those emails), so how can I have so many emails trying to come in??
Of course, when I open my Activity Monitor, the Mail application sometimes takes up OVER 100% of the processor... making it impossible to work.
I went into my different accounts and deleted the "deleted" emails on the servers. What else can I do?
What can possibly be causing this??
I have several gmail accounts and others on specific domains (linked to websites), all imap.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
macbook pro 15-inch, Early 2011,
mavericks 10.9.5
8 go ram
Mail 7.3

Yes Eric that does reset it but the numbers quickly start to climb again!!!
At first it says may 10 incoming messages (that would be about normal), but now I'm up to over 50,000 again!!!
There is some sort of duplication going on that was not happening before I upgraded to Mavericks.
I agree with you about feedback. I'm trying to send feedback everyday, until I find a solution.
This problem is keeping me from working since it is using up way too much of the CPU.
Thanks anyway.

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