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false memory
Do you have any tips to deal with false memory? because i lack the ability to recognize if the events were real or not…
Do you have any tips to deal with false memory? because i lack the ability to recognize if the events were real or not…
Sadly nobody can know for certain, there is no way to know and that is apart of healing. Learning to accept uncertainty is important. You cannot change the past but you can change the path of the future.
Yesterday, a girl named Maymay0_5 made a post. Find her and ask her. She works with her therapist, and one of her subtypes is false memory. If you ask her yourself, it's better because you can ask all your questions in your mind.
Hi all, I’m really grateful for all the support I’ve gotten from people in the last few days. My mental health is at an all time low and I really appreciate the relief people have brought. I had a question about whether an intrusive image of a potentially imagined event can feel just as real as a real memory. I’m doing my best to stop ruminating over an image I have in my head, and have gone so far as requested security footage of myself and have been told both through that and by my friends that nothing bad happened, but the image in my head feels just as real as other memories. I was also drinking the night in question, which makes it harder for me to dismiss the image and makes me feel like I shouldn’t. I was just wondering if imagined images can feel just as real? I’m trying to use tools to ignore the image, and have therapy scheduled for tomorrow, but I feel like I can’t responsibly dismiss the image even with the evidence I’ve gathered if there’s something about a real memory that looks different in the brain and that if so, that suggests my memory is real and I should confess it. I’m really working on stopping reassurance seeking as well, especially now that even after being told that nothing bad happened when the establishment I was at reviewed security footage, my brain is telling me “they’re probably just lying and never reviewed it.” I know I need to just stop ruminating, reassurance seeking, and mentally checking the memory, but I just don’t know if I can/should in case the image is what I should trust more, if that makes sense.
When you have a false memory, can you actually see it happening in your mind?
Does anyone else’s false memory intrusive thoughts of what could have happened feel very, very real?
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