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Medicine will not help...your mind is just looking for anything to trigger you and when there is nothing it tries to convince you that there is something but you cant remember it...expose yourself to this situation and say yes i am ready to accept uncertainty...just imagine if everything in life was with certainty...do you think you ll settle for it? No you by human nature will start looking for uncertainty to bring some challenges...Good luck my friend
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it’s hard but the part of your brain that says “this is important” is misfiring when you worry about uncertainty
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Do you think medicine will help?
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Acceptance and commitment therapy would come in handy here, though I have never gotten the privilege to go and do this therapy, sometimes I practice acceptance myself and it does help. I mean, at times I can't and it is too overwhelming and sometimes I succeed and it does wonders. I don't know why nor does my family (I have no therapists unfortunately to guide me) so... I don't know if this helps much. Maybe at least if you never heard of ACT before.
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- 19w
So hard to not engage the thoughts because even though it's from the "past" (i don't even know if im remembering things correctly and it kills me) and i can't change it, I just NEED to prove it to myself that it didn't happen this way. If you'd asked me questions maybe a few months ago, I would have been able to lucidly explain things. Now I just feel like I'm in a constant swarm of thoughts, not knowing if anything is real. If my brain is to be trusted. Wish I could just get hypnosis to forget
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Hi all, I’m really grateful for all the support I’ve gotten from people in the last few days. My mental health is at an all time low and I really appreciate the relief people have brought. I had a question about whether an intrusive image of a potentially imagined event can feel just as real as a real memory. I’m doing my best to stop ruminating over an image I have in my head, and have gone so far as requested security footage of myself and have been told both through that and by my friends that nothing bad happened, but the image in my head feels just as real as other memories. I was also drinking the night in question, which makes it harder for me to dismiss the image and makes me feel like I shouldn’t. I was just wondering if imagined images can feel just as real? I’m trying to use tools to ignore the image, and have therapy scheduled for tomorrow, but I feel like I can’t responsibly dismiss the image even with the evidence I’ve gathered if there’s something about a real memory that looks different in the brain and that if so, that suggests my memory is real and I should confess it. I’m really working on stopping reassurance seeking as well, especially now that even after being told that nothing bad happened when the establishment I was at reviewed security footage, my brain is telling me “they’re probably just lying and never reviewed it.” I know I need to just stop ruminating, reassurance seeking, and mentally checking the memory, but I just don’t know if I can/should in case the image is what I should trust more, if that makes sense.
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This situation just happened and I can definitely remember how it went but my brain is telling me otherwise and I know you guys said to sit with the uncertainty but what if the intrusive thought is so bad like disgusting, I can’t sit with that. Maybe it’s false memory but this just happened. I don’t even know how to live with this
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