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Or HOCD also gives you false memories ? just stay hopeful that you'll eventually leave this cloud of misery, don't listen when your ocd tells you it's gonna be like this forever
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Right now I'm doing a little technique. I'm accepting my thoughts as fact. The first time I did it, I was very very very anxious and scared of the outcome. I sat with the discomfort(for what felt like an eternity) and then it passed. It really did, and I felt so relieved (the most calm I've been in weeks!). I was able to observe these thoughts from this tranquil perspective and answer the questions I've been asking myself during my panic modes. I was able to answer them with clarity and confidence. I'm still working at it and Beleive me, it's hard to not engage with these aggressive thoughts but you just have to remember that this is a process that won't just be cured over night. The thoughts are still there, but it's been a bit easier to disassociate myself with them and simply label them as "instrusive thoughts" and go about my business. Or just telling yourself "I'm just gonna deal with this thought later". Best of luck to you!
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Ugh. The false memories you KNOW are false but feel real.
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This is horrible. It’s very common with Sexual Orientation OCD , and the best thing to do is to tell yourself that it may mean something or it could mean nothing. Because you don’t and will not know , there’s no reason to stress over it as it won’t change whatever the answer is !! Tell yourself “ that’s an interesting memory and it does make me anxious and uncomfortable. But that doesn’t mean that it has to. It’s in the past and I shouldn’t let something that once has no effect on me ruin the precious time I have now “ or something like that !
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@h4a4667 that’s so amazing , I’m very happy for you !! That’s a major milestone and you should be super proud of yourself , as I know how hard it is to get to that point. Accepting the thoughts at first is very anxiety inducing but it paves the way for a much larger time period of way less stress which is always the goal !
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Thank you so much! Its definitely not easy at all but it's a hopeful process ??
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Yes!
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Thanks any other tips
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Yes!!!
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Sorry long post. Anyone feel like now they’re just in extreme denial. Like when I was little I noticed guys more than girls in movies and was more drawn to them. I remember changing my mindset to switch that. 98%of my life has been straight until recently. I felt drawn to some guys but never thought of it sexually. Always had girl crushes dreams and porn. Now I watch porn and I feel like straight takes longer and then I go and watch gay porn and feel nothing until I tell myself it’s two attractive dudes and love is love and imagine physical sensations and then it hits like suddenly. Like I have to convince myself it’s alright. Then when I try again I can do all that but feel nothing and then straight porn works. Idk if it’s just getting a fix or the first time works with anything or what but it’s confusing. On top of that I’ve felt girl relationships including my wife maybe miss something and a guy maybe matches that feeling that but then I feel like I’d be missing something without a girl or my wife. Idk I’ve had some rough times in life with male figures in my life but idk. I feel like I have to convince myself more and more that I’m straight even more than the first time I dealt with this. Can someone relate? Please
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Any advice? I just got triggered by false memory OCD. There is no indicator or memory of me doing anything bad, only the what if. So how can I deal with uncertainty because if I did do the false memory it would go against my morals?? Not something extremely unforgivable just like not ideal and against my morals… I don’t know if it happened. I have no memory of my false memory happen only the “what if” which is enough to scare me FOR CONTEXT: I was in the mental hospital when I was 16, and made a few friends. Some just a grade below me, so 14-15. I remember bringing up in convo someone I met previously at the mental hospital earlier in that year a different time I was hospitalized , to which a boy responded he knew her, and they did (seggsual) stuff at their school. The girl I was talking about at that time was 14. So im assuming the boy was 14 as well. 13 and up is together in the hospital, so he couldn’t be younger than 13. I have no memories of him flirting with me or me flirting with him. Or anything bad happening. Literally just “what if”.. or what if he wasn’t 14 but 13 and u said something inappropriate or flirted with him. I will never be able to know what happened and I’m sick thinking about this. 13 and 16 is NOT WITHIN MY MORALS. I am worried because the only inappropriate I guess convo had is when he was telling me what happened between him and that girl I knew. I also remember him having a bulge down there and it freaked me out and made me feel weird at the time because I noticed it. (At this time I was already diagnosed with OCD and experienced POCD) I try to tell myself maybe maybe not. But the what if it did happen makes me feel like a p33do, and me thinking it didn’t happen doesn’t satisfy me because I don’t have 100 percent certainty
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