- Username
- Anonymous
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I had false memory too, and it really affected me a lot. But what I found useful was to not read about OCD or go online to google what was happening to me. I didn’t even mention my anxiety to my boyfriend and I deleted this app at one point. It got really easier and my anxiety went down. Try and not solve whether it’s true or not. I cannot stress this enough omg!! ? Just accept that it’s okay not to know. It’s okay to not be certain, you DONT have to know whether it’s real or not. Let yourself feel the anxiety, the consequences. Good luck! Sit through the waves. Think of the anxiety as ocean waves ?, Sometimes it’s really big and you’re like oh crap I have to go under, so you have to go under and endure it. Just like you have to sit through the ugly anxiety ocd brings But soon, it’ll pass. And sunlight will appear! ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ YOU GOT THIS!!!
It’s a thought. Doesn’t matter the contents <3 Treat it as you did before. The more you fight it, you more it will come back stronger. Try and agree with the thought as you did before. Once again, (: don’t think about whether it was true or not. Accept the uncertainty. You got this, you can fight the thought!! Don’t involve in rituals and compulsions. It will make your anxiety worse,, give yourself a chance to do this: ? Get a timer. ? Put in 10 minutes and start it everytime you feel like doing a ritual. ❄️ Do something productive: clean, eat (yummy!!! I heard thoughts are worse when you’re hungry) ? Don’t do your compulsions for those just 10 minutes. Just 10 minutes of your life. Sit with the anxiety. Try increasing it everyday (: you will find in time, it will get easier. ❤️
Do you want to talk?? I want to help as Ik it’s horrible when you are trapped in a spiral of thoughts Can you message on these apps??
How would it affect you if it were true ? Why would you let it affect you if it were true ? These are two very important questions. We can talk more in depth about this if you’d like to ?
^ reassurance because you’re telling them that it’s okay if they made a mistake and that they most likely didn’t. Telling people that their response to anxiety means they’re not a pedophile because they’re anxious - is reassurance. I hope you understand!! The rest of your advice is great but please look into it
Oh I’m sorry if I misread! Thank you for being so kind and understanding!!
It feels like my (im not diagnosed yet but i want to see someone about this) POCD and incest ocd has morphed into a false memory (?) when i started accepting the uncertainty in my thoughts and i feel like i’ve undone all the progress i’ve made... its horrible because i remember having this thought/memory a while ago and it shook me a little bit and maybe it is a memory of something i’ve done but every time it think about it i get this feeling in my stomach of guilt and distress i just want it to go away... and i find myself doing rituals and compulsions without even thinking twice about it this is so hard
@ultimatelyumi you’re totally right , as someone who struggles with OCD , I should have known better than to give such ridiculous reassurance. Thank you very much for pointing that out to me , it definitely won’t be done again by me. In my defense , I never said it confirmed her fear wasn’t true or the opposite , I just said that it shows she was repulsed. I never told them to chose whether they did or didn’t do what they think they did. But your right , I should have known better and I’m sorry to them. I know what reassurance is. Thank you :)
@ultimatelyumi I’ve had OCD for over 11 years , I got it down. Thank you
@Ultimatelyumi no worries at all ❤️ I’ll be the first to admit that I overreact at times , I’m sorry about that ? but thanks for being so kind as well :)
TW!! POCD Please help. I’ve been doing decent lately but just need support on something that has kept me stuck. I can’t tell if this is a real memory or not, but I’m pretty sure it is. Maybe distorted. But feels so real. And I’m terrified. Last year before my huge OCD spike. So before I even knew I had OCD. I remember being around kids at work, and this girl in a skirt was on a climber on the playground and I remember looking up and you could see her underwear. I remember staring for a minute, and it was kind of like a car accident, I couldn’t look away. I remember finally coming to my senses and saying I wonder what people would think if they knew I was doing this. After that, I completely forgot about it until my spike in October and I’ve been living in a prison of regret and guilt ever since. I sometimes see that child at work still and I get a rush of anxiety and guilt. I just don’t know how to move pass this, for this reason it gives my OCD proof that I am what I fear so much. Is it possible that I was experiencing intrusive thoughts then and just didn’t care enough or realize it. I’m so broken from this. I hate what I’m going through. I hate myself if this memory is real.
"pOCD and zOCD false memories" I'm so sorry for venting... I need help... Or just someone to lend me an ear. I'm suffering from really serious, really bad false memories that are not only illegal but also make me feel like a monster. Basically, my false memories are extended to these two topics only and are always of a sexual nature. 1. That I used my pets as tools to obtain sexual gratification. (and or touched them) 2. That I touched a child (during an actual real event) inappropriately. I don't have images for these false memories... It's more fears than anything else! I feel like I forgot about them or I'm just in denial. The 1st one comes from a situation where I masturb- near my cat. (she was in my bed but I can't recall where she was standing). There's also another situation that I have also masturb- near my dog but in this case, she wasn't near me. Just in the same room as me, in separate beds. The 2nd is from a real event where I played with this child in the pool. I can only remember one physical interaction that was giving her a piggyback ride. In conclusion, I'm so afraid these are real and if they are real, then I should be punished! I don't want to go to jail because I'm terrified of that place so the only option is to kill myself. I don't deserve to be happy or even alive...
Can someone pls help me, my current intrusive thought is rlly severe. I saw a very disturbing & gruesome video recently, & I don't think it's real, it's a hoax by clearly a bad person, but now the image of it won't stop popping back into my mind. It is triggered by almost everything, & it is rlly annoying, like a song stuck in my head, except it's something gory & sick, so it's worse! For those curious, I will NOT be attaching the link because it's too traumatizing, trust me, I am doing u a favor, & curiosity is what killed the cat for me, figuratively speaking. It's like that thing with OCD where if u try not to think of a pink elephant or a brown bear, that is exactly what you're going to picture or think of almost instantaneously. But ontop of feeling absolutely repulsed, disgusted, & full of anxiety, I am also feeling guilty & ashamed for even having such thoughts around Christmas time especially, when things are suppose to be innocent. I regret watching it so much, & feel f'd up for the times I "rewatched" it, but only in an attempt to find some sort of evidence that it was fake, because I so desperately want it to be fake. But the amount of ppl in comments who say it's a prosthetic are less than the amount of ppl who argue that it is real, so I'm outnumbered, & now doubting my judgement, even though I did find some near-obvious signs of it being staged. Pls provide whatever advice u know, because it has already gone on way too long, & I can't have it constantly resurfacing from my memory just to torment me. Distractions (if & when they work), are so temporary.
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