- Date posted
- 2y
False memory or real
Why do false memories feel so real and that it’s what actually happened. Because it feels like it’s not a false memory at all and it feels like and I feel it’s true
Why do false memories feel so real and that it’s what actually happened. Because it feels like it’s not a false memory at all and it feels like and I feel it’s true
Because if they didn’t feel real ocd wouldn’t be doing it’s job. It would loose it’s purpose. It grabs whatever scares you for the moment and takes advantage of you.
I have a false memory that felt like a realization, but I remembered it completely different before
This is how I feel, I had a thought that I hit someone with my car while glancing down at the radio for a moment, even though nobody was around and there’s no profs, but it feels real and now my mind swears I did this awful thing :( it’s hard when ur brain makes it’s so realizistic
I totally get this but then if they were real memories surely we wouldn’t be labelling them false? I mean think about a bad memory from the past, are we doubting those as real? No! I guess cos OCD hasn’t latched on to those memories. I think the extreme anxiety comes from the battle within our brains trying to prove the suggestion wrong because we know deep down they are false 🤔. Thoughts??
@Angel20 Yes I think this too, if we had no recollection of it before….and it just popped in right now when ocd is bad again…then it would have to be an intrusive thought/false memory right?
@Stardust777 Exactly. If we feel so bad about the thought why didn’t we feel so bad previously. We need to learn that just because it feels real doesn’t mean it is and learn to be able to sit with feeling uncomfortable. Easier said than done!
@Angel20 Trueee also I hate ocd now after reading this I’m doubting whether I’ve labeled it as a false memory 😭 now I feel like I haven’t and that the memory is real even though I HAVE labeled it
@Jbgys543 That’s just ocd trying to lie to you again. It wants to keep you on your toes!
My mind does this everyday with real event OCD. It keeps showing me stuff from my past that feels like real memories. I always feel guilty and shame.
I have a false memory of me hurting someone I really hope it isn’t real. There’s inconsistencies in it yes. I don’t remember the exact day when I did it or where I was. It keeps saying what if I did it here in a house or a car. The location keeps changing I really don’t remember doing it like I know I don’t remember doing it because the memory is hazy but gets vivid when I focus on it and I get anxiety if I’m bad person or not it then becomes more vivid. I’m gong back in my head eremebering if I did hurt them or not saying I didn’t say these words or they didn’t react to it. I can’t remember them reacting at all or saying anything about it but it feels so real. God someone please help me but not reasssure me because that’s when I feel ok for awhile then I go back obsessing because my brain is like you sure you didn’t say this stuff? I’m like no I’m sure. Are you sure you didn’t do this? I can’t exactly remember in perfect memory if I did or when I did or where. I just have a blurry fragment of the memory and the anxiety comes in and my mind then pieces other thoughts to that thought saying you said this before and then she said this after. I debunk those comments because I don’t remember them saying it and then my memory is like what if. God idk. I’m gonna accept the uncertainty if I did or not but I really really really really want 1000000% proof I am not horrible being I need absolute certainty and the cycle continues.
I’m sorry you’re suffering, I can completely relate to this cycle. Don’t accept the uncertainty of whether it happened or not just accept that you’ll not be able to “FEEL” certain because that’s what this disorder is, doubt.
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?
Same theme of harming my family member in a similar way the details what I said and what was shown to them and the environment around me but that’s all I can get it’s hard to focus on the environment only what I said and what I did. This memory keeps coming up and leaving its instant. They seem to be ok the one in question I also don’t have a timeline if I harmed them no timeline like I did it this time or I don’t remember. I don’t rmemenr actually ever doing this. I felt like a creep because this woman days ago made me feel like one I internalized that and now my mind has been picking up thoughts or “memories” of harming my family member but I can’t ever rmemenr doing anything like that plus the dream or “memory” when I had it was in another state years ago but it only came up now.
I see people post about how they feel like their thoughts are real. For me personally I deal with sexual intrusive thoughts and they feel real to me because it feels like I enjoy them. And when I say “it feels like I like them” that’s the same for me as saying “I like them” but some people say that’s different. Idk just curious as to what you guys feel!
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