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I know I was here earlier on with a question as well lol but has anyone ever found that when a new false memory takes its place at the forefront of your mind, it's almost easier to disregard the old false memories and say "Yeah that stuff didn't actually happen that way". It feels like OCD giving you a little reward for letting it place a new, shinier false memory in your head. Anyone experience the same thing? Maybe I've asked a similar question before.

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 21h ago

Yes! In fact, I spent a month thinking I had done something bad when I was a child. Soon after, I started having intrusive thoughts and it was at that moment that I realized it was a false memory. I'll tell you something that helped me deal with this. You know when we remember a year for a specific reason? Like, 2021 reminds me of something in the pandemic. So every year there is something you remember that might remind you of how you used to think. If I have a false memory, I try to pinpoint the likely year it happened and see if it makes sense for the values of the time.And how I felt years later when I talked about it. Because if you had done something bad, you would remember it. Vaguely, but you would remember it. If you don't remember, it's because it's an OCD memory. That's how I've managed to deal with everything. Just yesterday he made me believe something I did in August of last year. But it doesn't even make sense. It doesn't matter what in itself, but if you know it doesn't make sense, you You start to have the strength to point out that it is OCD and try to really figure it out. I hope you can get through this. Hang in there. Things will get better. I'm praying for the best for you!🤍

Username: moon027097moon027097

Date posted: 21h ago

this is such a helpful and insightful comment! i've found myself trying to do the same thing, like thinking about the year and trying to pinpoint it. the only thing is, i keep second-guessing because my brain goes "Yeah, but what if you didn't have the same values back then as you do now, or you had a moment of weakness or it was so bad that your brain has been blocking it now and you're just remembering it as it truly happened or or or or or—". it's really difficult but im fighting every day. thank you for the encouragement and prayers. i truly do appreciate it. I hope that things get easier for you too in whatever you're dealing with at the moment ❤️‍🩹

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 13h ago

@moon027097 I know! Sometimes I think that too, so tiring. But I think we need to remember that at some point after the bad thing happened, we would remember it. I think if you did something bad that wasn't bad for you, you would go through with it and then realize you did something bad. If you did something bad with these values, at some point you would remember having done it. I find it hard to forget something like that. On both counts. We would remember. And we would remember it mainly over the years when in front to our theme. Thank you for everything! Everything will be fine. We will overcome all of this. 🥺🤍

Username: dee012dee012

Date posted: 21h ago

Same… you explained it perfectly wow. It feels like ocd is like well this one’s gonna be 10x worse so here’s your relief for all the other ones… and it’s a cycle

Username: moon027097moon027097

Date posted: 21h ago

it sucks that it happens, but im a little relieved to hear that im not just tricking myself into thinking this way. hope we can get through this!🤍

Username: literatureandpumpkinsxliteraturean...

Date posted: 22h ago

I’ve experienced something like this but with a different theme! A few days ago a new theme that is kinda linked but kinda not came up. And then all of the sudden, the whole traumatising videos theme I have been dealing with didn’t matter at all. I literally remember thinking to myself that it’s nowhere near as worse as the new theme. Now the new theme has subsided after speaking to my therapist about it and I’m back with the old one and THIS one seems worse! It’s so confusing 😭😭

Username: moon027097moon027097

Date posted: 22h ago

ugh 😭😭 it's so frustrating!! the mind loves to jump around. i suppose it's the brain working through things, but OCD is resisting to force you into compulsions. finding whatever it can to scare you

Username: ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ㅤ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ㅤ

Date posted: 18h ago

This happens to me all the time lately. My internal OCD voice has even said "You know that didn't really happen, right?" and then I find momentary relief before I'm thrown a new false memory, or it reconvinces me that my original false memory is true. I'm in a constant loop of false memories and distorted real events. OCD is a gaslighter, and a jerk.

Username: moon027097moon027097

Date posted: 18h ago

"gaslighter" is another really accurate term for it. glad that im not alone but sad all the same to know that other people also struggle with this. sending strength 🤍

Username: Mariie

Date posted: 21w ago

Does anyone have the same thoughts?

Does anyone have harm OCD related to recent events? Like events that just happened or happened not long ago? I feel like my OCD is trying to find something bad/immoral I could have done in nearly every situation that I am experiencing, for example “Did you just do that?”. And I constantly want to check, ask people for reassurance, try to find a logic answer by going it though in my head,… It’s many different themes but all related to doing sth bad/immoral (e.g., touching someone inappropriately, pushing someone in front of a vehicle, putting something in a drink/food). Does anyone have the same? Or the other thing that I experienced recently is that I did something (a rather unimportant action, not harming anyone) and I go over and over it and ask myself “why did you do that? What does that say about you? Are you actually a weird person?” It feels like I draw “false conclusions” from a real event… I don’t know if that’s OCD though or not. Just wondering if anyone has experienced the same. Good luck to you all! We’re not alone in this! 😊

Username: Agent K

Date posted: 21w ago

Real Event Ocd

Hi there I talk about religion (but I'm not trying to force it down anyone's throat) So my main event (which is the one that truly bothers me) happened in 2015 when I was 14. I won't go into any details or anything. I will say that it got so bad once that I almost committed something detrimental to my health earlier this year. Not long after that I spoke to a doctor and basically confessed what's been happening to my brain and my mistakes, he mentioned things that really resonated with me, I'll paraphrase a bit: "Okay, so what you did was not good but it's not something to condemn yourself for. It falls into the grey area, you've apologized and have been forgiven (even though I apologized over text, which comes across cowardly)but it seems that you haven't forgiven yourself. There's a whole lot of difference between you at 14 and you at 23. Try to have some perspective." This really helped and it still does, but unfortunately ocd tries to find a way around this. I'll get a thought of "oh but you forgot to mention that other part of the event" and it magnifies it. Can anyone relate? I've done everything but fully move on because I sometimes feel like I don't deserve to move on. And I'm still worried over the future.

Username: Secretidentity

Date posted: 11w ago

Does any one ever question if their ocd isn’t ocd?

That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.

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