- 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 :)
Anyone know how to know the difference between real and false memory because I don’t know if it’s false but feels real it’s fits in with what happened in the best and it’s just the worst to deal with
I am drowning in my mind and I need some outside perspective or even just someone who may relate a little. I’ve already made a post about some of my story involving false memory ocd, but I figured I would come on here and share what has “reawakened” the issue for the past two years. I had laid off of worrying over my false memory for a few years, but it all started up again with me double checking that no crime/murder/etc had taken place in my town around the time I was struggling with harm ocd. Well, it quickly took a turn when I found an article about a “suspicious” death that had occurred around that time. According to the article, this death was eventually labeled as no foul play (aka not murder). But I still obsessed over this because of how real my worry had felt in the past that I somehow had left my house, hurt/killed someone, came back home and forgot. I searched through all of my activity history (Google, YouTube, Facebook) from around that time. I found a large gap in my Facebook activity (like several days of no activity) which was around the same time during the month the man had died. That only skyrocketed my worries even though I knew I had been struggling which may have been the reason why my activity had gaps (the previous month had a similar one as well). But nope, I continued obsessing and panicking because guess what? My YouTube activity from the weekend prior to when the man was found dead has weird activity (the history shows a gap in between 7pm - 4am on that Saturday). I tried finding a similar gap in the months surrounding, but could only find one that was sort of similar (7pm - 2am). So this led me to come up with the idea that I must have done “it” that night. Keep in mind, I would’ve been a scrawny 14 yr old girl at the time, and I don’t even know what I would’ve done or even could’ve done. That’s all to say — it just feels like my life is some huge lie and that all my fears are true. I don’t want to hurt anybody, and I know that younger me probably didn’t want to either, but how can I ignore what feels like actual proof that I’m a monster? It’s not like my false memories didn’t feel real either, so I can’t even shrug it off at all. I never see anyone have “proof” that their false memory is true, and in fact it’s usually people saying they have proof that it’s not. I’m just so lost, and I feel like I’m just lying to myself despite having been told by multiple therapists that this is just OCD.
I read multiple articles on false memory ocd an now I’m confused. I actually thought that false memory ocd is marked by things that are actually completely fabricated by the brain. But I keep seeing things like „an event that may or may not have happened“, does this mean that it could actually be true? Are there any ways how to find out if what you’re going through is real if it’s an actual bad act? Because for me I have been completely focused on false memory ocd lately and while I was ruminating on another one, I suddenly got an image of sth even worse that could maybe be like 7 or 8 months ago. I never remembered this happening and for months I’ve been convinced I had never hurt anybody but then I got this image. I instantly also thought that this didn’t happen and that I would definitely remember if it had happened because it’s actually horrible and it’s not just something you would quickly do and then completely forget, it’s an actual entire act. And I never was close to that person. But I keep being like „but what if I listened to my intrusive thoughts? But I can’t remember doing that and I even have posts on here from around that time saying I was too afraid of that person and that I would never ever listen to my intrusive thoughts… but what if I tried to get rid of my ocd theme by doing this? Nah that’s not what I would do and I know that… I’ve never done any harmful things just to get rid of this theme this is stupid“ etc etc. Like I keep fearing I might’ve done this and done it for various reasons. But I can’t actually remember doing it. All those scenarios feel like they’re just imaginations. But I can’t let go of it. And usually for memories it’s that with time you start to be able to puzzle it all together trough evidence and u don’t forget bad things you’ve done. For example, I know that like a year ago I pushed my sister while I was having an argument with her. I remember everything from then because in my entire life I’ve barely ever done anything to others and so I usually remember those events almost 100% perfectly. I also remember sth from almost 10 years ago in which I called one of my friends (and ik this is bad, that’s why I remember it) fat. I lost a few details but I still remember what exactly I did and that the exact same day I called the parents and apologised bc I felt bad. But for this scenario, I’ve been ruminating on it for TWENTY days and I’m still in the doubting stage. I have spent hours ruminating by now and I still don’t have any actual memories back, just things like „but what if I was mad and then just did this and instantly forgot about it?“ and all this. But not an actual full scenario of me doing this even though it could only be a few months away. Idk what To do, I can’t continue living with the uncertainty. If it’s real, then I won’t even continue living. People like these are terrible and disgusting and don’t deserve living and everybody can agree on that.
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