Human 🌻
- Date posted
- 2y
False memories
How false memories work? Like you have a memory and suddenly you start question it?
RousRous
- Date posted
- 2y
Kind of! In my experience of it, something will happen that in general spikes my anxiety, and then the thoughts start swirling. The more the thoughts ruminate the more more the false memory implants and by the end of the day, the actual memory is still there, but the brain sees the false memory as what really happened.
Meg JohnsonMeg Johnson
- Date posted
- 2y
and also there are other memories that didn't didn't bother me before, and now ocd is pointing it out saying this means that it's true but idk if I'm remembering correctly
Human 🌻Human 🌻
- Date posted
- 2y
I have noticed that too!
Meg JohnsonMeg Johnson
- Date posted
- 2y
@Human 🌻 Really?
Human 🌻Human 🌻
- Date posted
- 2y
@Meg Johnson Yes. Since the ocd kicked in I have memories that when the actual thing happened i didn't feel weird, i didn't question anything. But now im questioning memories that i have with old or bew friends or relationships.
Meg JohnsonMeg Johnson
- Date posted
- 2y
@Human 🌻 Same. I don't really have the original memories anymore, but I figure if it didn't bother me then, then it must not be true. But the second false memories started it was like I was seeing myself as my ocd saw me.
Human 🌻Human 🌻
- Date posted
- 2y
@Meg Johnson I dont think that mine are false memories, i have a memory as it happent but now with ocd its like im questioning what happened, if it meant anything, what it meant, did i felt blah or blah? Did i do that because blah? Stuff like that...
Meg JohnsonMeg Johnson
- Date posted
- 2y
@Human 🌻 So you're questioning how you felt about it?
Human 🌻Human 🌻
- Date posted
- 2y
@Meg Johnson Im questioning everything about those memories, yes. If it happened as i remember it, its exactly as you described it in the second comment, the one I responded.
Human 🌻Human 🌻
- Date posted
- 2y
@Human 🌻 Like im questioning the memories as to what exactly happened and how i felt and what if... And also im thinking that what if all these mean something even though then nothing bothered me and made me feel weird or question it at the first place
Meg JohnsonMeg Johnson
- Date posted
- 2y
@Human 🌻 That's okay, I have those too that's why I kind of see it as real event / false memory bc it was an actual event, but my ocd is like what if you felt this way and then I create a false memory of feeling a certain way about it. But I didn't think I felt that way before.
Human 🌻Human 🌻
- Date posted
- 2y
@Meg Johnson Yes yes, exactly that!!!!!
Meg JohnsonMeg Johnson
- Date posted
- 2y
@Human 🌻 Yeah, that happens with my hocd all the time with things that never bothered me before, so I figure it's kind of a false memory bc I obviously didn't think my intentions were that before.
Meg JohnsonMeg Johnson
- Date posted
- 2y
I initially thought it happened. But my therapist said it was most likely a false memory. I didn't believe her until I noticed that I was very focused on the feeling of it. It felt real, it felt like a realization. Noticing that I was focused on the feeling made me realize that it was most likely ocd.
Meg JohnsonMeg Johnson
- Date posted
- 2y
Mine was real event where I originally knew what happened but then when ocd got involved it twisted it
GregJGregJ
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y
Yeah so a very fuzzy “memory” pops into your head. You analyze and ruminate over it and you start “remembering” more details about it. The more you ruminate the more believable it becomes. The best thing you can do with false memories is not to ruminate and just let the thoughts be there. Don’t interact with them.
Human 🌻Human 🌻
- Date posted
- 2y
Thank you for the respond!
ihateocd12345ihateocd12345
- Date posted
- 2y
Mine is a real even that ocd twisted! They can be about absolutely anything
Jesse MillerJesse Miller
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y
Yes! False memory OCD is often when we start to think an event that happened might be different than how we remembered it or we have a memory and feel it is real. This leads us down the rabbit hole of questioning what the experience might have actually been and if it followed our values or if it made us a bad person.
Cassie - AdvocateCassie - Adv...
- Date posted
- 2y
This article might be helpful to understand false memory OCD! https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/false-memory-ocd#:~:text=People%20with%20False%20Memory%20OCD,'t%20remember%3F%E2%80%9D).
Human 🌻Human 🌻
- Date posted
- 2y
Thank you! I'm going to check it out! 🌻
Meg JohnsonMeg Johnson
- Date posted
- 2y
For me it wasn't fuzzy
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