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Help me please
Can a false memory feel like a suppressed memory??? The more you think about it the more clear it starts to feel? Or not clear the more believable it feels?
Can a false memory feel like a suppressed memory??? The more you think about it the more clear it starts to feel? Or not clear the more believable it feels?
The possibility of a false memory feels like something I did do. Because of my real events, its like well 100% I would have done this no ? So yes, it can feel like it can feel more believable than your past false memories. It will continously latch onto things that seem believable and at the same time worse. My suppressed false memory feeling feels like I'm stopping it from coming out. Its like its there in the back of my mind, I know what it is, but I'm stopping myself from knowing the whole story. š«š
Iām reaching out for educational and self-awareness purposes, hoping to better understand something Iāve been mentally struggling with for several years. Around five years ago, I began having a deeply distressing memory involving the fear that I may have acted inappropriately toward my younger sister when I was around 13ā14 years old. The details are vague, fragmented, and unclearābut ever since this thought first appeared, Iāve treated it as if it were a real event. Iāve carried immense guilt, fear, and anxiety for years, convinced that I must have done something horrible. Despite asking my sister (who remembers absolutely nothing, has never shown signs of discomfort, and has told me more than once that she wouldāve spoken up if anything had happened), the doubt and guilt never went away. The memory feels real, yet there is no external confirmation, no direct recall, and no evidence beyond my own mental images and fear. Iāve also struggled with obsessive thoughts in other areas, such as health anxiety since childhoodāfrequent doctor visits, checking my pulse, obsessing over illnessāand only recently learned about false memory OCD, which aligns with my experience. Iām not currently seeking therapy but would greatly appreciate your professional opinion from an educational perspective: Does this sound more like a real memory, or more likely a false memory created by OCD or anxiety-related mechanisms I am stuck between a normal person or a s*xual abuser
Has false memory OCD affected you so badly that you feel that a lot of your memories period are unclear, vague, fuzzy and canāt recall correctly?
I have had the same false memory/instrusive image of me doing something horrible to someone when I was 12 and they were younger. It is a memory based on a real event. I truly donāt know if itās real or not but obviously, the more I think about it the more I think itās true. This has led my mind to become slightly paranoid. I worry that if this horrible image in my head is true then one day the person I might have hurt will come and k*ll me. Iām really scared I feel like I wonāt feel better as long as this āmemoryā is in my head. Does anyone have advice?
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