Hi I’m just posting this to see if there’s anyone going through what I’m going through in here. I feel like I have fake memory ocd ( I haven’t gotten a proper diagnosis yet) it’s been about a month I believe that I’ve been feeling like I have this because before I wasn’t creating as much fake memories ( I have an active imagination since I was a kid) as I am now and feeling like they’re actually real but I know they’re not but my mind keeps telling me they are and i want to get help but money is tight right now and therapy is expensive and I don’t have insurance. This is causing problems for me to go to work and having a normal life. I’ve only discussed this with my girlfriend so far and now I’m trying to reach out for help. Any recommendations will be appreciated. Thank you.

NOCD has weekly lives on youtube that you can watch to learn skills and ways to help with OCD. You can also ask your own question. Youtube has a lot of content to help with OCD. Learning basic ERP skills is helpful and you can do it on your own. A response to what you are talking about could look something like hmm thanks brain for giving me these memories, I am not going to try to figure out right now if they are real or not. Or something like maybe these thoughts are real but maybe they are not but I am not going to figure it our right now and maybe I will actually never know. After that response you would stay present in your daily life and tasks and just allow the thoughts to play out without engaging in them and you would allow the anxiety or distress naturally rise and fall on its own. This is basic Response prevention. An exposure could be a written script about the memories... I am having X memories and maybe that means I am a bad person or that I am going crazy. I accept that uncertainty and choose to allow it to be here as I move on with my day. You would put this script into your own words. And read it once a day for about 10 minutes at a time. after the 10 minutes rate your anxiety and then move on with being present in your day and not engaging in compulsions and just allow the thoughts to play out and the anxiety to go down on its own. There is much more you can do with exposures but this is the basics. Good luck. There are also a lot of self help books on Amazon that can help you learn ERP.