False memory ocd

omg i have experienced false memories so many times during last year and the start of this year, the amount of time i took thinking did i do this? let me find evidence and i’ll be fine. i have some advice and i hope this helps. first of all i didn’t trust who i was, i didn’t know myself and i didn’t even know that i should know myself. self reflect, start to take time alone and fully get to know yourself disregarding the thought for just an hour, i know it’s easier said than done but if you take a bit of time every couple days doing this you’ll start to say ‘ you know what i actually know myself enough to know i wouldn’t do something like this, it isn’t something that i agree with’

I do, I try and not emotionally invest myself in it. I also try and trust myself as best I can and remind myself that no matter how real it feels it’s the ocd and its done it a million times before this time isn’t any different. I also try and catch my brain out if I can feel it making stuff up and lastly the most important thing is to not dig deeper into that thought, not ask any ‘what if’ questions, not go over the false memory over and over again, if it pops into your head just leave it at that and try not to take it seriously

False memory has plagued me for 9 months I didn’t know I had ocd when it came. Even though both my sisters do and I definitely had OCD for 10 years prior to this. It took my life life to be destroyed for me to get diagnosed. It seems so real and will convince you it’s true. It made me forget who I was. I know I would never do what the false memory is saying I did. But yes you have to trust yourself it’s the only way. If you are very intelligent, so is your ocd (people with ocd seem to be very intelligent). If you try to disprove it will come back with an awnser. Mine came with no room for solving, ocd had already made it unsolvable. It’s like your enjoying life and then out of no where ocd says “you done this terrible thing and forgot about it” When the thought first came, I was like “wtf did I do that” and took it so seriously, because who wouldn’t?? I didn’t understand it was ocd then and took me months of crippling anxiety and terror to see it could be ocd Now I’m still very stuck But at least I can see it’s ocd Even if it feels so real I’ve had many other themes before but this one really has me on my knees Hopefully one we will see through its BS

I’m not at this point yet and it might be wishful thinking but I keep saying to my self “Let it feel real until it doesn’t” I feel this is the way to beat ocd Let’s hope 🤞