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- 0Aqi0
- Date posted
- 5y ago
When I was 10, I had an EXTREME fear that I was going to shoplift. I absolutely did not want to steal anything but I was worried that if I walked past a rack of items in the store that I would accidentally shoplift. It was so bad. A few months later, I started thinking that I might’ve had a vague memory about finding something in my bag that I thought could be something I stole and it totally freaked me out. Eventually I was able to reason out the false memory and realize that I wasn’t going to steal anything.
1. At first I thought I had real event OCD cause I remember some parts, but after listening to Ali Greymond I discovered it is actually false memory cause it can be tied to a certain situation and you can remember something and obsess over not remember all. 2. To me it happened gradually after doing confessions and compulsions about my "sins" and past mistakes to my boyfriend, I came across this memory from 10 years ago and wasn't sure why I did what I did, what it meant, was I hiding something, did it really happened that way I remember etc. etc....that is how my false memory developed. 3. I like Ali Greymonds approach. Her videos helped me so much, she literally saved my life. I suggest you listen to ALL of her videos on false memories. 4. I don't have any insight. I still remember what I remember, I don't want to solve it. I decided to believe myself (which is extremely hard with OCD but not impossible) that there is a reason why it didn't bother me for so many years. I decided to label it as OCD, and that is what helped me.
And I do have real event OCD too, but with real event you remember everything, there's no blank spaces in your memory.
What if the ocd just take blank spaces and full with others stuff?
I mean, from what I understand at least, false memories don’t present themselves as “false,” they feel real initially, but you can learn to recognize what’s false and what’s true, unless I’m wrong?
I have a memory similar to that! Although I don’t know if it’s true or false :\
No, you will usually not know.Because the environment or youself tampered the memory to make yourself more convinient.
So most likely if you know it is a false memory then you do not have a false memory
How?
Can someone please explain false memories related to OCD? I feel like I have had these but have never realized it’s related to OCD
I deal with false memories, I’ve had a few that have been pretty bad, but normally I’ve been able to tell myself “hey, this is false.” I remembered something a few months ago, and a genuinely don’t know if it’s false? When I first remembered it, it never crossed my mind at all that it could be false. I just assumed it was entirely true. But now that I’ve been thinking about it, there is a possibility that it could be false. It supposedly took place last year during the fall or winter, I remembered it last august. It’s an extremely extremely specific scenario, and the memory is kinda complex. I also vaguely remember remembering it earlier, but it now affecting me that much? Although that could have just been having intrusive thoughts related to the subject. With my confusion on whether or not this memory is false of course comes my ocd shoving it’s way into everything. Something my brain has been telling me recently is “if the memory could be false then maybe only parts of it are and you’re actually just a terrible person” (that would make more sense if I explained the memory). And now I have to keep reminding myself that it’s either all true or it’s all fake, because our ocd would not produce the “better part” of the memory without producing the “worse part”.
When you had your first false memory experience did you think it was real because you didn’t know ocd could do that or did you feel like something didn’t feel right about it and suspect it was ocd?
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