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I experience this. It’s awful and consuming. It’s so hard to accept that there’s no way to find certainty and the past can’t be changed even if you could. Live in your values, have compassion for yourself, and try to avoid spending all your time solving the thought. Much easier said than done, but it will start to ease up eventually.
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Thank you. My specific false memory has lasted 8 years. I'm told by the person I am sure is involved that I've never hurt them, and they get along with me great, but I still feel so sure that I've permanently damaged them even though idk why I'd even want to.
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I deal with false memory also it devastating
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Don’t ever feel u alone
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I quote I live by is discipline is better than regret
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- 19w
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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Does anyone else’s false memory intrusive thoughts of what could have happened feel very, very real?
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How do you know the difference :( I genuinely cannot keep living in this torment. it all started with an ‘intrusive thought’ where I had like a hazy flash of something reading an article. and I remember thinking ‘what if’ and ‘what is this’ and then that intrusive thought turned into me ‘remembering’ something else. which caused me panic. then I started trying to find evidence because it contradicted what I remembered this entire time. this was last year in like september. fast forward to march this year, it came back up- but this time stronger and with more ‘details’ and what nots. and I’ve been ruminating on it since then trying to remember and connect and It’s like I’ve added all of these details. but are they real? or is this just my OCD? I just feel like if it were real I would have never been able to keep it to myself. but also what if it was so traumatic that I blocked it out? because it all makes NO sense for me to do something like that. but it also fits what I was thinking at the time. idk
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