Does everyone have the same problem with not being able to designate whats a real memory and what is fake and constantly worries that the memory u think is fake is actually real and your OCD is just suppressing it? Ley me know if people have had an experience with this and if u can designate between real and fake?
Yes I have. Typically if the "memory" or though starts with "what if", it's OCD. if I feel immense distress or a sense of urgency to figure it out, its probably Ocd. This one is so hard and I'm sending you all the support!
@Anonymous Thankyou i just have a vision of something after a rather drunk night out to do with cheating on my girlfriend and i dont know weather its real or not and i struggle to designate weather it is and it stresses me out and makes me think i am going to loose my girlfriend, everyone i know believes i wouldnt do such a thing but why cant i believe that i wouldnt?
@TDR 17 Yes I understand as I have dealt with very similar thoughts. You feel that way because your OCD is dominating your thoughts. Once you habituate to that anxiety , it gets easier with time and practice.
@Anonymous OCD defo dominates my thoughts but i just think why do i think that ive cheated if i can’t remember anything and i get a vision i must have cheated if i had a vision or memory normal people would think its a memory
@TDR 17 I'm no expert but it sounds like your need to figure out why and to figure it out maybe a compulsion. I know it's so hard. You've got this!
@Anonymous I mean this isn’t the first time I haven’t remembered something and thought i have cheated, i feel like OCD makes me think the worst possible thing every-time i can’t remember anything and alcohol is involved i hate it, its been a month and i still cant get over it
Go to someone you trust who was there if possible. This helps me quite a bit with childhood.
@SachaBJ Everyone there, which included my friends, my girlfriends friends, my girlfriend and her brother all said that i haven’t done anything and they wouldn’t believe me to cheat but i just was blackout idk what i did
I have this especially after drunk nights out or events from yearsss ago. I’ll get an intrusive image and go down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out if that image was a real memory or false…anyway by trying to figure it out I always lead myself to more confusion as I find coincidences/ clues / real details mixed with false and I just wind up more confused / feeling like an indenial criminal. All over one image🫠such fun it is to have ocd.
@LillyX I get exactly the same i feel guilty because I’m feeling anxiety from it and its not going away, i also feel like why would i think such a thing if it wasn’t true like is my brain really that powerful to make something up like an image of me kissing someone with no face or is it real and im just blaming OCD? I am struggling so much with this as a very sticky OCD thought but all the evidence suggests that i done no such thing but why cant i just leave it, i think its because im in the doubting my own thoughts, brain power and OCD stage
When false memories have popped up for you guys, did they feel real straight away like pop up like a memory but you’re still doubting whether they’re real?
Can it feel like you literally remember a false memory happening? And it feels like the memory has always been there and you vividly remember it happening that way? Because I don’t even know if I’m experiencing a false memory or not but god it feels so fucking real. Like I literally remember it happening. But what’s weird is the original memory was kind of different. 2 years later, the memory is not the same, but it feels like I literally remember it happening. And in this memory, I’m fucking snapping. I’m acting on my thoughts. I feel like a fucking psycho. I hope this is just OCD
How do you know the difference :( I genuinely cannot keep living in this torment. it all started with an ‘intrusive thought’ where I had like a hazy flash of something reading an article. and I remember thinking ‘what if’ and ‘what is this’ and then that intrusive thought turned into me ‘remembering’ something else. which caused me panic. then I started trying to find evidence because it contradicted what I remembered this entire time. this was last year in like september. fast forward to march this year, it came back up- but this time stronger and with more ‘details’ and what nots. and I’ve been ruminating on it since then trying to remember and connect and It’s like I’ve added all of these details. but are they real? or is this just my OCD? I just feel like if it were real I would have never been able to keep it to myself. but also what if it was so traumatic that I blocked it out? because it all makes NO sense for me to do something like that. but it also fits what I was thinking at the time. idk
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