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- 2y
Has anyone overcome cheating false memories
Any advice? Would be nice to know if it has been overcome :( I keep thinking i slept with someone at a party and just forgot until recently (2years after the event)
Any advice? Would be nice to know if it has been overcome :( I keep thinking i slept with someone at a party and just forgot until recently (2years after the event)
I did! My theme is not longer that. Just gotta do ERP and embrace uncertainty. Maybe you did cheat maybe you didn’t.
@Just another OCD guy Ahh im so glad you got over it! 🥹🥹 i feel like I have to tell my boyfriend so badly but I dont think he will understand 😭😭 this thought wont leave me
@Anonymous Sometimes I’ll get triggered and I’ll spiral for a little bit but nothing like before. And yeah don’t tell your boyfriend. I told my wife every single “memory” I had and it only stressed her out. I would definitely find a therapist to help you create good ERP exercises. Mine made me write down a story of how I cheated and with who and made me read it 3 times a day. I also saw a lot of videos of couples breaking up over cheating. Hope this helps :)
@Just another OCD guy Thank you so much for the advice I’ll definitely try some other ERPs (i am currently doing script writing)- can i just ask how you feel towards those false memories (because i feel like its so real but just out of my character)
@Anonymous Yeah I feel the exact same. It all started after a night of heavy drinking. I blacked out and had to get carried home and I randomly started worrying over if I cheated. Even though I asked all the people I was with if they saw me do anything and they all said I didn’t do anything wrong but I just kept creating scenarios in my head and they felt real.
I went to bed one night in November, and I can't quite say what happened, but I believed that I had a "memory" from childhood. I won't discuss what, but I had "remembered" doing something sickeningly awful. This thing came to me almost as clear as a real memory. I remember thinking something along the lines of 'How could I forget doing something like that?' followed by a feeling of complete horror and terror. I have moments of "clarity" where I can't believe that I'm questioning doing this thing, and it appears obvious that it's false. But now, I'm more than often believing that I did. I am spending 24/7 fighting my head, and it's taking me to dark places. I know this is the worst thing to do, but you don't understand, if this is real then I am a monster and I can't just adopt the 'maybe I did, maybe I didn't approach'. I just can't. I have to know. I'm so scared. My entire life is on the line. I don't have anyone to talk to about this. Literally no one. I feel like I'm insane, like I'm a monster, like I'm hiding my true identity from everyone I love. Does this sound like False Memory? Or am I in denial, trying to convince myself this didn't happen? Why does it feel so real? And why do I have moments of clarity? I also had my first nightmare about it last night. Please someone help me.
I’m in an absolutely crippling episode dealing with real event/ false memory. I literally cannot get out of it and it is beyond hell. Can someone please help me with advice? If you have been through this how did you get through?! I’m out of work, the only relief is when I’m sleeping no exaggeration. My husband is being super supportive and Is also taking time off to be with me. Was there a specific medication or any tricks that helped? I’m beyond desperate. Thank you
Any advice? I just got triggered by false memory OCD. There is no indicator or memory of me doing anything bad, only the what if. So how can I deal with uncertainty because if I did do the false memory it would go against my morals?? Not something extremely unforgivable just like not ideal and against my morals… I don’t know if it happened. I have no memory of my false memory happen only the “what if” which is enough to scare me FOR CONTEXT: I was in the mental hospital when I was 16, and made a few friends. Some just a grade below me, so 14-15. I remember bringing up in convo someone I met previously at the mental hospital earlier in that year a different time I was hospitalized , to which a boy responded he knew her, and they did (seggsual) stuff at their school. The girl I was talking about at that time was 14. So im assuming the boy was 14 as well. 13 and up is together in the hospital, so he couldn’t be younger than 13. I have no memories of him flirting with me or me flirting with him. Or anything bad happening. Literally just “what if”.. or what if he wasn’t 14 but 13 and u said something inappropriate or flirted with him. I will never be able to know what happened and I’m sick thinking about this. 13 and 16 is NOT WITHIN MY MORALS. I am worried because the only inappropriate I guess convo had is when he was telling me what happened between him and that girl I knew. I also remember him having a bulge down there and it freaked me out and made me feel weird at the time because I noticed it. (At this time I was already diagnosed with OCD and experienced POCD) I try to tell myself maybe maybe not. But the what if it did happen makes me feel like a p33do, and me thinking it didn’t happen doesn’t satisfy me because I don’t have 100 percent certainty
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