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I got into a heated discussion recently about the ethics of spanking. I'm always hearing people say how spanking your kids is a form of abuse. People say the same thing about having your son circumcised, since he can't consent to it and it can have lasting trauma. As someone who was circumcised as a baby and who got a few spankings (not many), I had never really thought much of it. It didn't seem to leave any sort of negative impact on me. But the more people would say this, the more it would upset me, like they were trying to say my parents were cruel people. It would put thoughts into my head that were never there before, like whether I should resent them for it or change my relationship with them, even though I never saw it as a problem. I'm trying to learn to just be confident in my opinions though and not think I have to take everything random strangers on the internet say as gospel.
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I've had this issue for years. I was having weird dreams as a teenager and since then I have worried that I was abused by a relative as a child although I have no memory of anything happen. And of course I doubt myself and doubt my memories constantly. I feel your pain.
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You are not alone. It’s pure torture. I had an innocent memory from childhood that at first, thought nothing of, then when it came back a few months later I started thinking “hmm I wonder what this could mean?” And then I started implanting the image of something worse that could have happened and have been obsessed ever since. It’s horrible. I’m so terrified I’ll believe this and accuse my family member of doing something I know deep down they didn’t do. I’m completely obsessed with it.
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Does your brain try to tell you it’s not OCD and it must be true if you’re thinking it like mine does? Even though I have a history of ocd. I’ve gone through every “theme” of ocd so it’s wired into me.
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@maggiemae712 I've never been diagnosed but I've done a lot of research and realized I've been dealing with it for 20 years. It actually started with these abuse thoughts and I had no idea thats what it was. But when I'm around this person, which is often, the thoughts plague me. I try to ignore them but I don't know how to properly ignore and fix the problem. I wish i had constructive help but I don't. I do my best by reminding myself that I KNOW nothing ever happened no matter what my brain is saying. I have no reason to think anything happened except that my brain won't let me stop obsessing. I'm sure there's a better way to deal with it though.
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@Catastrophelane3 My mind always goes to the worst case scenario for every situation. Its awful.
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@Catastrophelane3 Sorry. I hope that was clear. That I've never been formally diagnosed with OCD but I know that's what these thoughts that plague me have to be.
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@Catastrophelane3 Over time, although the thoughts haven't slowed, the doubting of myself has decreased. The images plague me still.
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@Catastrophelane3 - I never experienced it until a few days ago. I’ve been in talk therapy for a bit and my therapist is very “anxiety is because of trauma, let’s explore your childhood” based and I think that really has been setting of my ocd to look for the worst. It’s horrible. Up until now, I have never felt unsafe or unsure around this family member. I don’t even have a concrete “memory” of being abused, just the innocent thought that I started to fill the gaps with. I just hope this feeling can calm down so I can live my life again. I’ve read horror stories of people thinking they have repressed memories and then accusing someone of abuse, that was false, and then ruining their entire life. It’s my biggest fear as my family is my whole world.
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Yes I have and I got over it and you will too all you have to do is say maybe maybe not because no matter how much you are trying to see if you remember or use logic you will not and never find an answer. Nothing is 100 percent certain
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How did you overcome it? What was your symptoms? Mines so bad it feels like torture..
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Did your mind try to trick you that the memory/thought was real even though you knew deep down it was not?
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I was hoping you could give some insight ❤️
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@maggiemae712 Yes, I just live with the uncertainty and don’t let it impact my day to day activities
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@Anonymous How though when it feels so real?
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It’s almost as if, I’ve been in therapy and she’s been trying to get to a “root cause” and my brain took that idea and came up with the most horrific “cause” possible. Even though I NEVER thought that was a possibility. Ever. I’ve been through some tough things in life, but never once have I or anyone expected abuse. That’s why this is so hard and crippling. I cannot function, the anxiety is so bad.
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It's funny you say that about therapy. When I started having these abusive nightmares, I told a friend about it, so obviously not a therapist, but he suggested maybe I was abused and that thought has been in my mind since. Did you tell your therapist about it?
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@Catastrophelane3 - Yes. I told my therapist after I started having the thoughts and she honestly made it worse. She told me that “memories don’t lie and to trust my gut and it could be suppressed memories” which triggered it to get way worse
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@maggiemae712 Huh. I think if you were clear to her that it was not true, that it didn't happen, she should be open to explore that. Especially knowing you have OCD
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@Catastrophelane3 - I was pretty clear. I told her I know this never happened. I didn’t even have an actual thought that I was abused. But she said she’s a “traum a informed therapist” and takes those thoughts very seriously. Which I get. But I also have had severe ocd in the past (not treated by her) and the worst thing to say to someone with ocd is to believe thoughts.
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@maggiemae712 That sucks. I feel your pain. Its a constant battle that I wish we could rid ourselves of.
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@Catastrophelane3 - We aren’t alone. Even if it feels like it. It’s hard because I haven’t found much info on this form of ocd. Just the false memories of doing something harmful, not having harmful things done to you.
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@maggiemae712 I've been having a hard time finding in depth info myself. Most stuff I read talks about compulsions and either briefly discusses false memories and intrusive thoughts or completely ignores its existence.
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@Catastrophelane3 - There’s a video I found on YouTube that has been helpful. I’ll send it.
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@Catastrophelane3 - https://youtu.be/ITiB2v3mZlo
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@maggiemae712 - She talks about exactly what I’ve been going through.
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I actually I was abused so it’s not really a fear. My dad gave me a bloody nose and sprained wrist from trying to break it. sister gave me a concussion. If you had been there would be a doubt, but honestly I worry more about real events that concern my mistakes causing harm for this reason
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I mean there wouldn’t be a doubt
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I had pretty poor guidance being raised my an alcoholic and made more choices as a teen and young teen adult
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Hi, I’ve had ocd since I was 12 but the hardest theme I’ve ever encountered was false memory ocd and POCD. I’m convinced I’ve molested children and people and it disgusts me to my very core. Is there anyone else going through this? I really need to talk to people who are going through the same thing as me and can share their story because I feel so along in this false memory cycle because it feels like a real memory and I feel like I’m tricking everyone around me into thinking it’s false. Please help
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I am diagnosed with OCD, ADHD, and mild depression. But my OCD symptoms are so prominent in my daily life where it feels debilitating. It comes in waves, there will be months with very minor symptoms and other times where it comes in random hitting me like a truck making me rethink life. I grew up having intrusive thoughts of all types, and a lot of them sent me over the edge because I couldn’t understand why things of such sort would cross my mind, things that I’m sure to this day that I’m incapable of or would never want to actually do. Yet I find myself in a constant cycle of trying to dig deep in the past and trying to figure out if I ever acted on any of the intrusive thoughts I can remember, yet ofc have no recollection of acting on them because they most likely didn’t happen. However, not having concrete proof of these things makes me not want to see another day sometimes. It is so hard to move into daily basis like this. I’m also in a happy healthy relationship and sometimes I get these thoughts of “what if I’ve done something awful during the relationship (for example, cheat, dishonesty, etc.) and can’t remember?” I know I would never do anything intentionally to harm my relationship and I think that maybe the idea of not having my partner sends me down a rabbit hole to think all these things. This mental fight is getting harder and harder. It feels unbearable. Does anyone have some fruit for thought, relate, or have any tips?
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So. I was in a traumatic relationship. for a long time. it was filled with gaslighting, manipulation, abuse, cheating ect. I would OBSESS over finding out where they were, what they were doing, who they were talking too. but I couldn’t leave. I tried so hard but I never could. they would call me names, physically hurt me, throw things, break things. because I would question them all the time. but I just couldn’t leave. no matter what I knew. they would manipulate me. I fell for their childhood trauma. it’s like I lost all logic. but I also feel like I have a pretty good memory with memories. not all the way, but remembering a lot of the traumatic things. especially now that I’m no longer with them. I keep remembering things that’s happened. even from my childhood. one time way before I even started dating this person, I had an intrusive thought about a friend of mine. that was with me. and I freaked out. I thought I had acted on the intrusive thought the next day. I asked my friend for confirmation but they said nothing happened. but the memories about it feel SO REAL. so VIVID. but they swore that nothing happened and they had no idea what I was talking about. I’ve struggled with intrusive thoughts for my whole life. so fast forward to now, that ‘false memory’ from my friend randomly popped up and I started obsessing about it, and my childhood ‘memories’ that have popped up. and then I was reading an article of someone doing something horrible, and then it sounded ‘familiar’ and so then I’ve created this whole memory of me doing something similar to the article involving my partner doing it also. the memory keeps adding new things and conversations around it. when it involves an actual real memory. but it’s like it’s been twisted from what I remembered before. I also suffer from bad anxiety. I’ve stalked pictures. my search history to figure out what I was doing that say when the real event happened. and I’ve found some things but I can’t look through my texts because I got a new phone. it has been hounding me for months. MONTHS. trying to figure out if this new ‘memory’ is real or not. if it’s been fabricated by an intrusive thought from reading the article and thinking ‘what if’ or if it actually happened and because I’m no longer in this relationship it’s a ‘repressed memory’ but the thing is I have horrible horrible anxiety and I don’t think I could have gone this long knowingly that that happened without remembering it until now. because I remember a lot of the horrible things that they did. this ‘memory’ is fuzzy, but it brings me horrible anxiety when I think of it, like I feel like it happened. but I also feel like it didn’t happen. because I know I would never do anything like that. but WHAT IF I DID, because I was manipulated. idk. is this a false memory. I really need help. because it’s been debilitating. that relationship was really traumatic. and I got manipulated into a lot of things. but I wouldn’t have just went forward knowing that that happened??? there’s no way I could have just forgotten it. because before when I would think about that night it was different, until now. but what if I just made myself forget what truly happened?? I’m a pretty self aware individual, but somehow that relationship really REALLY put me into a trance somehow where I allowed things that I have no idea how I would even allow because before I met that person I would have never allowed someone to cheat on my constantly or talk to me the way they did. or allow abuse. like I don’t understand it.
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