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False memories ??
Does ocd make you feel like you did something bad but you literally have no memory of doing it? But you’re questioning if you did the images in your head?? I can’t convince myself
Does ocd make you feel like you did something bad but you literally have no memory of doing it? But you’re questioning if you did the images in your head?? I can’t convince myself
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I don't think you have to try to convince yourself. It might be better to just accept the feelings of uncertainty and not engage with the OCD thoughts.
Yeah but also the “other way” I ruminate about how everything is gonna be after I’ve done the horrible thing
Yes Omg and I didn’t even do it. I truthfully believe I didn’t but I cannot tell myself I didn’t and my anxiety is terrible and I’m on pills
Same with me... to assure me, that I haven't done something, I imagine it in detail. How I would feel if I did it and liked it, how my body would feel, etc. ... I had one POCD thought and by analyzing it again and again, trying to feel how someone who is in to kids feels, only to then reassure me, that I didn't feel like that at all, I trained those weird thoughts and feelings on to myself. I know, I'm not a pedophile, but OCD tries to constantly convince me, that I am, same goes for unwanted sexual thoughts about animals... It just is incredible destressing and soul destroying...
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
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
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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