Instant false memory

It’s annoying that I can’t even walk past a man without thinking I do something wrong idk why my mind is always telling me negative things I was at the gym and I had to walk down the hallways which is small and the same time I walked this man was walking so we had to pass eachother and now I’m freaking out that I kissed him while walking passed him because my mind is always anxious about that whenever I have to walk near a man it’s getting annoying because it makes no sense really And I failed at my compulsion because I called my boyfriend and starting talking about it but I couldn’t sit with uncertainty 😅

Hange

Date posted: 1y

Omg similar things happen to me too, I pass by someone and my mind shows me an image of me touching them inapropiatelly and then I start to freak out because idk if it happened and I had some pretty uncomfortable talks with people because I tend to ask them if I did that or if I just imagined it and i feel pretty relieved when they tell me that I did not I fact did that but it’s really awkward to ask those questions to strangers or people I know so I get you 😭

Elizabethalb...

Date posted: 1y

@Hange Omg yea it’s like an image while you are walking past someone so then you think it’s real. I think it’s called thought action fusion when i did therapy she told me that I have such a fear of doing something wrong that my body feels so tense and not relaxed at all and I used to enjoy going shopping by myself but now I feel I can’t do anything alone without getting so anxious and uncomfortable Today I was getting out of the car to go to target and the second I got out of the car my mind starts thinking of me doing something weird and then I think it’s real and it’s annoying not being able to enjoy myself and my alone time And then I automatically confess to my boyfriend or do a compulsion it’s hard sitting with uncertainty

slaygirl19

Date posted: 51w

Omg I have this too it’s been happening to me recently I have no idea why I’ve never had thoughts like that before in my life. But I’m anxious to go anywhere now because I have a bf and because of those thoughts. ik I don’t do anything but my mind tricks me into thinking I do it’s so frustrating. Did u figure out a way to manage it yet?

Elizabethalb...

Date posted: 51w

@slaygirl19 It’s torture right? No I have not figured anything out yet and it seems to be getting worse because I keep avoiding things that make me anxious I do keep confessing to stuff I did not do to my boyfriend bc it helps me feel better but I know that’s what is keeping me stuck in the loop When I did therapy she always told me to sit with my anxiety and don’t ruminate on it and don’t try to figure it out and do not confess and eventually your mind learns that it’s not as important as you are making it Because when you start to ruminate you are setting an alarm off in your mind that this thing is important But I still am not able to sit being uncomfortable by myself bc I feel like I’m hiding something from my boyfriend when I am not because I did not do anything

Elizabethalb...

Date posted: 51w

@Elizabethalberta I miss the days when I would walk around freely without constantly feeling tense I don’t even remeber why this started but it does ruin my day a lot But my advice would be to keep going out and doing things and don’t ruminate at all 😀

Anonymous

Date posted: 25w

I can’t figure it out

I have a bunch of real event/false memory and there is one that I remember I got in the middle of a horrible episode and I believed it was false but now I can’t remember why I thought it was false and now believe it could be real and it’s just bothering me so much because I want to remember the details to why I believed it was false in the first place and I’m just in a horrible spot and feel disgusting and am getting intrusive thoughts on my themes when I try to check if they are intrusive or not and I can’t function like i don’t wanna be around anyone because all I want to do is confess but I can’t because then I’ll obsess on confessing and they won’t understand.

dee012

Date posted: 23w

False memory UGHH!

I hate this! so f-ing annoying! my brain gets over one “what if”, then goes onto the next immediately. It’s like my punishment for feeling and sort of peace or relief. for example, I did a compulsion yesterday trying to see if I did anything bad/inappropriate, I eventually got relief and was like I didn’t do anything bad but then today I did the compulsion one more time just to make sure and then I finally got relief and then my ocd latched onto the compulsion I did today and was like “what if u did something bad/inappropriate but don’t remember” like wtf. this JUST happened. it feels like i forget things immediately!!! Idek if this makes sense im just venting this is so annoying

stuckonathought

Date posted: 17w

Convinced myself of something bad

Basically when I was drunk I was flirting with this guy I usual flirt with he was telling me that nothing could happen because he’s friends with my cousin, so I got really close to him and said oh resllr so you don’t want me, and I can’t remember what he said but I then kissed his like cheek or near his ear to like flirt with him and I’ve convinced myself because he said he couldn’t that basically I’ve harassed him. I left him alone after we’d finished talking but I’m so worried that me sorta going are you sure to him because he kept saying “maybe one day but right now I can’t” and saying “it’s not that I don’t want to” But I’m really scared that I’ve done something wrong. I keep picturing me kissing his cheek and him going like ugh fuck off when I don’t think that happened? I just have the worst anxiety around it right now

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