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- 6y
- Date posted
- 6y
Asking ones around you for reassurance is actually a compulsion and feeds into the ocd making the false memories even stronger. The best thing to do is to actually embrace the uncertainty and tell ocd that they may have happened but you are willing to accept that and move on. ERP is an effective form of treatment for false memories, for instance, it may involve writing a script about your false memory and repeatedly listening to it. This allows your brain to get “bored” with the fear/ anxiety associated with the memory. It also retrains your brain to react different to the fear, instead of compulsively ruminating, etc. The acceptance of uncertainty helps me the most and ERP is helping as well. Medication has been helpful as well. Best wishes!
- Date posted
- 6y
Hello my name is De'De im a 27 year old woman! With the world at my feet!! and i suffer with mostly false memory ocd! This includes cheating ocd! I have urges and sexual impulsive to cheat on my boyfriend! Even though i would never do such a thing! As we are madly In love! However my intrusive thoughts target what is close to me! And i get vivid memories that i have cheated on my partner with random strangers passing in street! I also have suffered from many forms of ocd in past which i have recovered from due to ERP medication treatment! And refusing compulsions!... I am currently in recovery! And i am on a waiting list for further treatment!... So yes i suffer with false memories and experience intrusive thoughts of a sexual aggressive nature! But i have managed to take those thoughts and take them to a place of peace and self exceptance of my thoughts! As i believe fully understanding our disorder allows us to move forward with our recovery... Stay strong ?☺️?
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- 6y
I used to have Harm OCD with false memories years ago. I was better for a while and then 6 months after being with my partner I developed ROCD with regards to believing that I cheated because of false memories. It's hell. Literal hell. Stay strong, and be prepared that through recovery things might get worse before they get better, but they will get better; they have to.
- Date posted
- 6y
I struggle with this loads, but I don't really have a good coping mechanism yet :/
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- Date posted
- 24w
Can it feel like you literally remember a false memory happening? And it feels like the memory has always been there and you vividly remember it happening that way? Because I don’t even know if I’m experiencing a false memory or not but god it feels so fucking real. Like I literally remember it happening. But what’s weird is the original memory was kind of different. 2 years later, the memory is not the same, but it feels like I literally remember it happening. And in this memory, I’m fucking snapping. I’m acting on my thoughts. I feel like a fucking psycho. I hope this is just OCD
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- 24w
I’m reaching out for educational and self-awareness purposes, hoping to better understand something I’ve been mentally struggling with for several years. Around five years ago, I began having a deeply distressing memory involving the fear that I may have acted inappropriately toward my younger sister when I was around 13–14 years old. The details are vague, fragmented, and unclear—but ever since this thought first appeared, I’ve treated it as if it were a real event. I’ve carried immense guilt, fear, and anxiety for years, convinced that I must have done something horrible. Despite asking my sister (who remembers absolutely nothing, has never shown signs of discomfort, and has told me more than once that she would’ve spoken up if anything had happened), the doubt and guilt never went away. The memory feels real, yet there is no external confirmation, no direct recall, and no evidence beyond my own mental images and fear. I’ve also struggled with obsessive thoughts in other areas, such as health anxiety since childhood—frequent doctor visits, checking my pulse, obsessing over illness—and only recently learned about false memory OCD, which aligns with my experience. I’m not currently seeking therapy but would greatly appreciate your professional opinion from an educational perspective: Does this sound more like a real memory, or more likely a false memory created by OCD or anxiety-related mechanisms I am stuck between a normal person or a s*xual abuser
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- 20w
Has false memory OCD affected you so badly that you feel that a lot of your memories period are unclear, vague, fuzzy and can’t recall correctly?
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