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I’m done
How am I meant to tell what’s false memory & what’s real when intoxicated I feel so guilty about a night 10 months ago. I need help
How am I meant to tell what’s false memory & what’s real when intoxicated I feel so guilty about a night 10 months ago. I need help
You can't. You'll never know with 100% security. You really can't find certain proofs that you either did or didn't. That's uncertainty, and i know it's really hard for us with ocd to accept it, but the best thing you can do now is to sit with the discomfort, instead doing compulsions and keep trying to determine what the REAL TRUTH is...
@Saraa It’s really hard I want a definitive answer, so I can relax and move on but without it it’s killing me
@Anonymous It would be awesome if we all can find definitive answers... bit they do not exists for this :/ We can definitely say if an object exists, but this are feelings, and we can't proove them... i know how bad you need to know, and how bad it makes you feel. I have rocd, and every time i feel anxious i start to wonder if i love my bf enough. I woul LOVE to have a secure answer. But it doesn't phisically exist. No one can mesure love, neither someone can enter in your mind and determine if it's real or not. We can't know, and that's what causing us discomfort.... we either can accept the discomfort or doing compulsions trying to answer it, without being able to know.
@Saraa Firstly, hope your relationship is going well, u deserve it. I’m scared the reason I can’t accept it within myself as it would put me in prison, nothings came of it though, I’m scared to think what I’ve done, I can’t get out of bed and lived in hell for the last 10 months.
Saraa’s right. You’ll never know 100%. There are some lyrics that really resonate with me when it comes to seeking assurance. “If you fight, it’s automatically a fight.” Basically, if you seek reassurance about something, nothing you do is ever going to be enough. The real way out is through. Accepting that you’ll never know. “Maybe. Maybe not.”
@WeCanDoIt! Yes I like them lyrics, thankyou for the comment, I do however think his can I accept something if it could put me into prison, hope your OCD is getting better too🙌
Instead of seeking reassurance and making your OCD worse in the long run, here are resources and tools to help you instead: -ERP scripting: https://www.shalanicely.com/aha-moments/erp-scripting-for-ocd/ -The Hidden Power of Swearing at Your OCD: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/beyond-the-doubt/201711/the-hidden-power-of-swearing-at-your-ocd -Taking The Power Away From OCD: https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/taking-the-power-away-from-intrusive-thoughts -Worry Script: https://www.anxietycanada.com/sites/default/files/WorryScript.pdf What is ERP therapy: https://iocdf.org/about-ocd/ocd-treatment/erp/
Well accept watever it is you are uncertain about; ask for forgivenes and forgive yourself.
@RMO2023 How can I accept anything when I don’t know what’s true or not and it woud put me into prison, I’ve hated my life the last 10 months
Sorry for the typos, i'm jot English, i hope you understand anyway
Yeah.. so that is the thing right there. You jeed to decide by faith what you believe to be true.
@RMO2023 Sorry might sound really dull, but could you explain that comment I don’t understand sorry to be a pain
For example, when everything around me and in me seems uncertain, the Word of God is an anchor for my soul. I believe His word is true; whether I understand it or not. I believe by faith (certainty of what I hope for and assurance of things not yet seen) I can be certain that His promises are true and are for me; that HE IS what it says; and so I am able to go on, because I have hope. So, you need to decide where is your hope and what you believe to be true (about yourself and the world around you) regardless of your feelings and your thoughts. You are not your feelings. They are like waves that come ang go.
I also myst add, that as I wait or continue to live in faith, I have seen the promises of God come true in my life, so that gives me more confidence to continue believing. I have personal experience as proof.
I often feel like i did something wrong even tho i am positive i didn’t, my boyfriend and i have been together for like 6 months and i’ve been completely loyal to him the whole time but recently i’ve been feeling the need to confess that i cheated on him even tho i didn’t and there’s absolutely no proof that i did something even close, i don’t talk to other men and if i do my boyfriend has full access to my phone and it’s usually a friend or me asking a simple question but i still feel the need to confess even tho i’ve done nothing wrong🥲 someone please help it’s so confusing
Ii spoke w my bf this weekend and he mentioned that he has thoughts just like me, but his don't bother him like me. I then felt a lot better and he tried dissecting one of his thoughts like I usually do and realized it felt more real for him after. That made me realize that none of my thoughts were ever true and I blew them up. However, yesterday I had a thought ab “wait wut if you liked that one guy? How dare you bc youre supposed to love your bf and not secretly like someone else” and treated it as I usually did bc I accidentally wanted to see if it was true but didn't rlly but I would check to see if it was there and now that thought feels so so so real now and I feel really bad how do Ik it's not real? I feel so bad and guilty bc lividly this makes 0 sense but it feels so prominent. It felt pretty real when it happened yesterday too. And now I feel awful bc how is it possible after my clarity the other day? Why does it feel so prominent 😞😞😞
i feel like i have been posting a lot about this and i will try to stop since now but i just don't know where to start or what to do, and i can't take therapy right now either. my event is about something that did actually happen; i had a boyfriend and we had a 1.5 age difference (i know this sounds stupid) but the thing is that we both started to sext a lot since he was 14 and i was 15. we shared audios videos pictures ect and i don't know how to just let this go, even when i know that i never really forced him into anything and i was always constantly worried about him being comfortable, when to stop and ect. the memories keep coming back to my mind and the guilt is eating me up slowly because i keep thinking that i'm a predator or a groomer or something like that. i don't know how to deal with the what ifs either, lately i haven't stopped thinking what if i sexually harassed or sexually exploited him or something like that. how do i deal with the cycle of guilt and constant what ifs if i also feel like my event is worse than others i've seen? please help me with this. it's getting a lil tiring and even if somedays i know how to deal with this, i still get really triggered sometimes. this wouldn't even bother me before, i wish i could just get back in time before this theme popped into my mind. my life has been a hell since then and i live constantly scared and suicidal.
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