Stardust777
- Date posted
- 2y
False memories
Did anyones false memories start off as a realization “flashback” Like and image and then it slowly started to create more the more you started to ruminate and obsess about it?
WildWestLWildWestL
- Date posted
- 2y
Yes, I get "flashbacks" sometimes when I'm having a panic attack or extra anxious moments. I think that what happens is that they are intrusive thoughts or just thoughts about what could have happened that, in a heightened state of anxiety, present themselves as "memories". If that makes sense!
Stardust777Stardust777
- Date posted
- 2y
@BanhMiQueen I hope so. Mine is related to a real event. I think that maybe I was having intrusive thoughts then and now they present themselves as that I actually gave into them…I can feel emotions too. Is that normal in intrusive thoughts/memories?
strawbmlkstrawbmlk
- Date posted
- 2y
That is exactly how mine started. A flashback and now my brain has a million memories, it’s horrific
Stardust777Stardust777
- Date posted
- 2y
@strawbmlk Yeah it’s really scary, it does it’s best to convince you. I made so many I tried to put myself in position of the memories I was having and they started “connecting” I was making up some stuff to fill in the gaps…and whenever I would look back on them the stuff I made up to fill in the gaps felt real.
strawbmlkstrawbmlk
- Date posted
- 2y
@Stardust777 Me too 😞I’m trying my best not to engage with the thoughts
OoOcCdD66OoOcCdD66
- Date posted
- 2y
@strawbmlk A flashback to a memory you know for certain happened? Or an intrusive thought that registered as a potential memory?
Stardust777Stardust777
- Date posted
- 2y
@OoOcCdD66 That’s the thing we don’t know…
OoOcCdD66OoOcCdD66
- Date posted
- 2y
@Stardust777 Right but sometimes you do know a memory is real and then from it you build false memories off of it...example "I know I went to the movies...I remember seeing the snack counter. But did I steal candy of the counter? Now I kind of feel like maybe I could or maybe do remember stealing the candy?! But did I?!?! I don't think I'd steal the candy??" And then the spiral begins.
Stardust777Stardust777
- Date posted
- 2y
@OoOcCdD66 Yeah I get that….it’s like mine…..I was doing something bad and I felt guilty and I think I did something else around the same time?? maybe because I had a intrusive thought.? Idk. Mine started off as “what ifs” around a real event that actually happened….and it’s really hard for me to distinguish what’s real to what was an intrusive thought in the past…
Stardust777Stardust777
- Date posted
- 2y
@OoOcCdD66 It’s weird because I didn’t have this false memory or worry before until I started remembering the event…and I started to regret it and intrusive images and thoughts started to come in…that kinda didn’t make sense but I panicked and emotions went into the thoughts and it all got mixed up.
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