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- 5y ago
- 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!!!
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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. ❤️
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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??
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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 ?
- Date posted
- 5y ago
^ 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
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Oh I’m sorry if I misread! Thank you for being so kind and understanding!!
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 5y ago
@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 :)
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 5y ago
@ultimatelyumi I’ve had OCD for over 11 years , I got it down. Thank you
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 5y ago
@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 :)
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- 20w ago
I’m really struggling right now. My mind is racing and I’m panicking about the content that I watched in the past because I don’t have a way to ‘prove’ that it was safe and consensual. I stupidly caved in and googled “what happens if an accidentally saw illegal porn” and I ended up making my anxiety so much worse. What if the images I saw in the past had underage people in them? Am I going to jail? Will my ip address be tracked? My brain is making all sorts of scenarios up and they feel so real. At this point I don’t know if I’m a bad person or not, I just feel like something terrible is about to happen. Although I know I’d never intentionally look for that kind of stuff there’s still a chance that I could have seen things without realising, and I actually don’t know what to do. I’m in total panic mode
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- Date posted
- 17w ago
I feel like a really terrible person right now, I keep replaying this, and no matter what I can’t remember what happened, it’s like my brain is purposely not letting me think about it. Without wasting any more time, I’ll get into it. Basically, I was at Walmart, and looking at cards with My Dad, I saw anime ones, took pictures of them for my sister, even ones that were anime kids, because I did my best to ignore it, so I looked at a Hunter x Hunter card, I stared at the black haired kid, being all like “ I’m glad I’m not having any thoughts about this, I’m glad I’m having normal thoughts and not thinking anything” I felt happy, then as soon as I looked at killua (white haired kid), everything collapsed. I don’t know what happened, my brain won’t let me remember. But I’ll give bits and pieces. I think that I had false attraction, and something in my head, said “oh, I wouldn’t mind being attracted.” “He is attractive, and I’m attracted to him.” “I remember a girl thinking he is attractive and he is” “ It’s not wrong to be attracted” “ I don’t care about his age” .. something along the lines of that, and now I’m panicking super hard, because I’m worried if I said those things, I feel like I ruined my life that I’m a pe//do and deserve nothing, idk what to do, I feel terrible… I remember when I was having the intrusive thoughts, I was panicking and was worrying, but it kept playing out, and I kept hearing things talk, it was drawn out too long, that now I feel convinced that I was saying those things, I tested it too, and I can confirm that I didn’t say that, but why am I still not convinced? I know I wouldn’t say those things, I was hoping the complete opposite would happen. My brain kept making me feel like it wasn’t wrong and it was okay. Maybe that’s why I’m so convinced I did that. I’m just spiraling super bad right now, I don’t know what to do or what to think, I don’t know if I said that or not… even if I did test it, I genuinely just feel like I said it, and I wanted it, because I still feel uncertain, I still feel like I said it, part of me just wants to be like oh I did and so I can move on, not because I agree with it, I just don’t know what else to do… I’m really scared.
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- 8w ago
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 😞😞😞
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