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As a human we unable to control all of memories that come across our mind in every seconds, daily. But you can manage to seperate things into its proper place, for an instance, memories are on the past, it's already done nothing can change it, so don't let it affect your current feeling. Put it on the right place, past and you can just focus on your current moment, present or your dream, future. Focus your mind on the present or future will give you more positive felling and energy cause it relates with hope whereas past usually related with regrets, sad, guilty etc. When unwanted memories come across your mind again just watch it as a movie, don't to attached to it.
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Thank you so much I’ll try
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@Emma1999 You're welcome
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Have you ever heard about false memory? Check it! But to resume, memories can be modified by many things, by your mental status or anxiety! Memories can change according to how you feel. Don’t overthink too much. They doesn’t mean nothing.
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Thanks. I feel like they definitely weren’t false. I have a very good memory and the other person has a reputation for a bad memory. But I remember weird little things like they happened yesterday.
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Yes I get that a lot and I try my best to brush it off and tell myself as a child I was not responsible if anything did happen and I was just curious or just innocent. but my friends had this big problem with me that I couldn’t control, I mean in the past couple years, I had a habit of bringing up times that they were really mean to me and it scarred me so that’s why I remember and when I brought it up they’d be like “I have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t remember ever saying that. I would never say that to you. You keep bringing stuff up from the past I don’t remember and you’re making me feel guilty. Why do you do that??” And it’s literally scarring shit that I would never forget like I told her there was a celebrity that kept me from self harming bc their music was there for me and whatever and they laughed at me and I cried. So like. I got better and not reminding them that they suck ? we’re all good now but it really used to suck.
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Getting eaten alive by thoughts right now, when I was a child me and other kids around my age would experiment and do things we shouldn’t have, I’m talking very young, like 3-5 as I got older I was for whatever reason always curious to a horrible extent and it lead me to do in appropriate things to kids around me, I was 7-8 at the time. I would say it happened 3 times in total in my childhood. And i eventually told my parents the last time it happened because even though I didn’t know it at the time. I had ocd. And I knew it was bad. That was when it all started. I feel absolutely disgusted with my 7 year old self and it comes up every once in a while especially when I hear anything about sexual abuse. I’m nearly 20 now and I enjoy my life for the most part and I’ve been down the ocd path before but I feel unforgivable. And I never want to tell anyone about it, but my ocd seems to want that. I have a beautiful girlfriend that had some traumatic things happen to her and I love her with my soul. I don’t ever want that to come up. Because that’s not who I am. When will I be able to forgive myself? If at all I hope I’m not alone.
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Idk if this happened to anyone but I have a lot of self doubt and memory problems.idk if they are false memories or not. When someone ,a relative , or even going to church in a deliverance service ask questions like "have you don't something in the past that you feel guilty about in the past?" "do feel like you admitting to stuff would make you feel a certain way ? I feel like it triggers me does that means that the thoughts I have are real and I did do something if I feel triggered. I always feel guilty 😔
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I had a life before I was with my partner, that involved having girlfriends and one night stands, etc. That's a lifetime of memories that I now feel guilty for having. Something as silly as watching a TV show with my girlfriend will make me think "I used to watch this show with an ex, is it ok to watch it with my current girlfriend?" and I will feel real guilt over it and need to seek her reassurance. There are other memories, about "intimate" times, that sometimes come into my head and I have urges to share them with my girlfriend to alleviate the guilt I feel for having the memory. Fundamentally, I feel guilty every time I have a memory of an ex, often regardless of the content. I feel like I shouldn't have thoughts of anyone else other than my current partner and it's wrong to have memories of exes. When I do, I feel guilty, ruminate, then have the uncontrollable urge to share the memories with her. She gets upset, I get upset, but also feel relief that I've shared. Does anyone have any similar experiences and/or tips around this sort of issue? Thanks.
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