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Hello friend. I'm struggling with this right now too. It's tough, but you have to come to the conclusion that you can't figure it out and keep moving forward. I've been doing pretty well, but I slipped a bit a couple of days ago. I've done it before and I can do it again (although it feels like I can't right now). Do you want to talk about it?
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Yeah, it’s just really tough. I’ve been struggling a lot with it, I’m trying to tell myself that if it’s as bad as I remember I’d surely remember, but it’s all really difficult
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@OCDHaver I totally understand where you're coming from. I've really had to learn to just sit with the discomfort and do nothing about it. That is what you need to practice. It feels impossible and you'll feel awful trying to ignore it, but you have to push on. OCD wants to to linger where you're at. It wants you to react. It takes time and a lot of practice my friend. I recommend looking up Nathan Peterson on YouTube for real event OCD and any other themes! He's been super helpful.
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Don’t engage with the thought AT ALL. Over time you will see it differently. Look up Ali Greymond real events on youtube
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I’ll look into her
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@OCDHaver She really helped me SO much
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I don’t know, if they’re not a big deal, they usually just leave, but this one bothers me, but idk
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I got pure o. I don't think that's really the correct term but you get what i'm talking about. I would say that i have it because my ocd just picks and chooses what subtype it wants to bother with me today. Right now, i'm suffering with real event ocd and, hopefully, false memories. But i think i might have cracked the code on it. So my real events and false memories are pretty much private related, which makes it worse because there's no evidence or proof. There are some memories (real events) i can think about and accept that they happened. I still feel guilt and shame but i have closure from it. And there's the other memories (hopefully false memories) that i look at and just cannot wrap my head around. They feel so real like they actually happened and it gives me so much stress, but i sit there and think and think and think on it to see if it actually happened. Btw, these false memories come from my real events but in different situations and times. Like if it was true, i would accept it. Whether or not it made me feel guilt or shame, i would still accept it happened. This is what i think i figured out. I can look at a memory and know for certain it happened. I don't need evidence or nothing. The false memories make me question myself if it did happen. It's still very vivid and looks so real like a real memory, but i just can't be for certain if i did that. It makes me feel like i'm in denial of my past. Sometimes they both work together. A real event can happen but false memories can use its work to detail out the event, tryna make it much worse than it was. Or you can be thinking of a false memory but real events can try linking with that false memory to making you think you did do that. If this makes any sense or if what i’m saying is correct or i’m just crazy, please tell me. All advice is welcome. Thank you
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I have had the same false memory/instrusive image of me doing something horrible to someone when I was 12 and they were younger. It is a memory based on a real event. I truly don’t know if it’s real or not but obviously, the more I think about it the more I think it’s true. This has led my mind to become slightly paranoid. I worry that if this horrible image in my head is true then one day the person I might have hurt will come and k*ll me. I’m really scared I feel like I won’t feel better as long as this “memory” is in my head. Does anyone have advice?
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First I must say I love children and harming one sickens me. So if you don’t understand pocd please don’t commment. Ive only ever been drunk around children once at a house party , my ocd then convinced me I could’ve assaulted them the next morning as my memory was patchy…I haven’t let this go for YEARS. I didn’t even know what I did? 6 years later I have this whole story, based off an intrusive image I had but still don’t really know what I did? Every waking day of my life I’m trying to figure this out but I’m getting more and more confused. I’ve found clues, coincidences , things I believe could be evidence but isn’t really? I’m mixing in reality and false images….My therapists (I’ve had 3) all say this is false memory ocd? But mine feels different? Mine feels worse? Anyway I need a break.
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