False memory after drinking

Can anyone else relate to false memories after having a night of drinking. My obsessions are around sexual harm ocd. I can’t stop replaying a certain event from 3 years ago and now a new one has popped up in regard to my 7 week old son. I’m not a bad person and I think I know deep down I haven’t done anything bad. My family also tell me I haven’t as I always ask for reassurance. Has anyone ever had any bad episodes after alcohol. If so what and how did you cope ?? I’m struggling right now. I’ve recently been seen by a psychiatrist but I’m not sure he specialised in ocd. However he did tell me it sounded like a anxiety disorder and a anxiety disorder.

False Memory OCD

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

So have you experienced intrusive thoughts or false memories after drinking. This is the only real time I’ve had them. I’ve had the odd one before well quite a lot but whilst sober and have been able to disregard them a lot better.

Locna

Date posted: 2y

Indeed. My father is in prison because of an OCD behavior he allowed himself to practice whilst under the effects of drinking. After the drinking he would use it as an excuse but in reality it was a crutch to make his actions okay. You can't control others but you can control yourself and your treatment.

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

See I sort of feel at a point of deep down I haven’t and there is no actual evidence to support my false memories. But now you saying that I’m worried :/ like what if you’ve done something and simply can’t remember???

Locna

Date posted: 2y

You must move forward into a better balanced you. What steps would you need to take to get you to a concious decision maker? What happens when others approach you about a reality moment you thought was false? These things happen in most heavy drinkers lives. I've had a few times I was blacked out it's not great but take responsibility. Part of recovery is taking responsibility and learning how to work through it.

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

@Pollu I feel like what your saying is well the false memories must be true just because we had a drink :/

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

I’m not following as Intaking responsibility what do you mean by that??

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

@Pollu I don’t really think I’ve done anything wrong I do believe I’m suffering with a mental health illness. In the form of ocd I believe it’s attacking the things I love the most. As I’ve said family have reassured me and there is no sound evidence to either of my obsessions. So really I need to just work through it like you’ve said

Locna

Date posted: 2y

Drinking effects the nervous system. I sometimes forget I can't drink more than two. If I do I become intense because we are all chaotic inside with alcohol it just seeps outwards. I would start by limiting your intake for sure. Seeking reassurance is a tool but there are many others to try. Replacement therapy works well for me but finding the appropriate replacement that won't get into your day is for each of us to decide. There's also the sitting with it method. You sit and observe the chaos within you and wait till it passes, for this I will excuse myself. I even do this in mid conversation because if I feel the crazy coming on its going to begin altering my body behaviours and I start talking faster and getting sweaty. It's not great so i'de rather gather myself and present who I want to be not my OCD.

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

But what I’m saying is I can’t be sure

amelia:3

Date posted: 25w

how to deal with real event + false memory??

im going to be vague here, but basically i did something in the past that i regret and it became a huge point of my OCD but i have talked to my therapist and i have mostly moved past it. i watched a video by an OCD youtuber that really put it into perspective. anyway, i have been with minimal worry for a few days, but now im having worries related to i think false memory? basically it’s like “oh but what if i said/ did this and just forgot that means i harmed this person im a bad person”. to me it sounds like textbook OCD but im just wondering if anyone else has experienced false memory / real event at the same time. i have a really horrible memory which is making it even more stressful. any responses are appreciated!

Twilightprin...

Date posted: 24w

Some advice please- I feel like my life is falling

I went out 2 years ago with some friends and I can’t remember some of the night - we went to a house party and my friends say nothing happened but I’m so afraid that I cheated on my partner and don’t remember it. It’s consuming my every minute and I can’t let it go. I was reading up on false memory ocd the other day and it triggered me into thinking what if something I imagined happening actually happened and I don’t know what to do and I’m scared that because I imagined something a certain way that if it wasn’t the same thing I imagined that it must be true

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Date posted: 23w

False memory ocd

Hey everyone, I’m still struggling a bit with false memory ocd. Mine revolves around my relationship. There are some things I have remembered that occurred early on in the relationship, whether someone texted me on Snapchat or TikTok etc. and it was old friends of mine from a friend group. In the friend group it was me and about couple guys and girls. I remember there being an instance where one of the guys had messaged me on Snapchat after I had posted something about a tv show or I had posted a picture of me and my mom and they reached out to me saying something and I honestly can’t remember at all what they had said to me but I’m pretty sure i remember I responded with “Lol” or “Thank you” , and I think the reason I’m really struggling right now is that I can’t remember hardly anything about the text at all. And of course, my ocd is trying to convince me that it was either a flirty chat, or something else. I also want to mention that I unadded a lot of people off my snap, mostly guys on TikTok etc after dating my boyfriend because I felt like that was respectful. And even after doing that, my OCD was trying to convince me that I un added them because I was hiding something or I was on adding them because I didn’t want my boyfriend to see that they were on my Snapchat, which was not the case at all. I think I’m just really struggling because I think about past events that have happened in my mind is trying to convince me that something else happened, rather than allowing me to remember what actually went on. I just wanted to come on here and ask if anyone else struggles with something like this because it’s been really bothering me the past couple days and I know I would never do anything to hurt my boyfriend because I love him so much it’s just I freak out constantly, and it bothers me a lot.

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