- Username
- Anonymous.
- Date posted
- 39w ago
False memory
Does anyone have any success stories with there false memory ocd? Please?
Does anyone have any success stories with there false memory ocd? Please?
I really struggled with this! Ultimately what help was being very present. Like I feel the cool tile on my feet I feel my hands touch the soft shirt, feeling the weight of an item. Doing this made me know I hadn’t done what my mind believed I had. Also I noticed if I was questioning if I had done it I didn’t
@Lucy Van Pelt Does it feel very real for you when it happened?
@Anonymous. Yes, it’s so hard but I know why values and I know my heart and I just had to learn to trust myself again
Personally with me, the main thing I do is try to let the thought be and not give it power. My therapist ones told me our mind is like a bus and where the driver and there’s gonna be a bunch of people coming into the bus, some positive and some really negative and all you have to do is just drive. You don’t have to listen to those thoughts. As well as the memories. Everybody miss remembers memories sometimes.
I have been on this app and on treatment for almost a year now, and I am recovering, but I have recently started experiencing false memories- I feel like it’s my OCD trying to interfere more now that I am unbothered by my symptoms. Recently I have been having moments where I wonder if I had said something terrible to someone or if I committed an act, it feels so real but it’s never as vivid as a real memory. It’s like trying to remember a dream. It is okay, I know I wouldn’t have done any of those things.
How vivid are your false memories? I didn’t have this FM until i kept thinking into if something happened on a night i was drinking Now ive come up with the worst possible scenario and my brain is convincing me its true with IMAGES Anyone else go through this?
I went to bed one night in November, and I can't quite say what happened, but I believed that I had a "memory" from childhood. I won't discuss what, but I had "remembered" doing something sickeningly awful. This thing came to me almost as clear as a real memory. I remember thinking something along the lines of 'How could I forget doing something like that?' followed by a feeling of complete horror and terror. I have moments of "clarity" where I can't believe that I'm questioning doing this thing, and it appears obvious that it's false. But now, I'm more than often believing that I did. I am spending 24/7 fighting my head, and it's taking me to dark places. I know this is the worst thing to do, but you don't understand, if this is real then I am a monster and I can't just adopt the 'maybe I did, maybe I didn't approach'. I just can't. I have to know. I'm so scared. My entire life is on the line. I don't have anyone to talk to about this. Literally no one. I feel like I'm insane, like I'm a monster, like I'm hiding my true identity from everyone I love. Does this sound like False Memory? Or am I in denial, trying to convince myself this didn't happen? Why does it feel so real? And why do I have moments of clarity? I also had my first nightmare about it last night. Please someone help me.
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