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- 3y
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- 3y
yeah I hate it sm I wish our brain was like a computer and you could just delete memories š
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- 3y
I feel like thatās all I get is bad memories
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- 3y
are you scared of them happening to you again?
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- 3y
Yes, I was in the hospital over Christmasā¦Iām afraid Iām going to have to go back in there again, my Mind wonāt stop about it
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- 20w
So hard to not engage the thoughts because even though it's from the "past" (i don't even know if im remembering things correctly and it kills me) and i can't change it, I just NEED to prove it to myself that it didn't happen this way. If you'd asked me questions maybe a few months ago, I would have been able to lucidly explain things. Now I just feel like I'm in a constant swarm of thoughts, not knowing if anything is real. If my brain is to be trusted. Wish I could just get hypnosis to forget
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- 17w
Hi all, Iām really grateful for all the support Iāve gotten from people in the last few days. My mental health is at an all time low and I really appreciate the relief people have brought. I had a question about whether an intrusive image of a potentially imagined event can feel just as real as a real memory. Iām doing my best to stop ruminating over an image I have in my head, and have gone so far as requested security footage of myself and have been told both through that and by my friends that nothing bad happened, but the image in my head feels just as real as other memories. I was also drinking the night in question, which makes it harder for me to dismiss the image and makes me feel like I shouldnāt. I was just wondering if imagined images can feel just as real? Iām trying to use tools to ignore the image, and have therapy scheduled for tomorrow, but I feel like I canāt responsibly dismiss the image even with the evidence Iāve gathered if thereās something about a real memory that looks different in the brain and that if so, that suggests my memory is real and I should confess it. Iām really working on stopping reassurance seeking as well, especially now that even after being told that nothing bad happened when the establishment I was at reviewed security footage, my brain is telling me ātheyāre probably just lying and never reviewed it.ā I know I need to just stop ruminating, reassurance seeking, and mentally checking the memory, but I just donāt know if I can/should in case the image is what I should trust more, if that makes sense.
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- 15w
Does anyone elseās false memory intrusive thoughts of what could have happened feel very, very real?
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