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False memory
Has false memory OCD affected you so badly that you feel that a lot of your memories period are unclear, vague, fuzzy and can’t recall correctly?
Has false memory OCD affected you so badly that you feel that a lot of your memories period are unclear, vague, fuzzy and can’t recall correctly?
yeah. if i could add to that, i also feel like i can't even really be sure of things im doing in the moment or maybe moments after i've done something. it's really strange. like i'll move my bag and be really sure that im moving my bag, my brain will be like, 'well did you though?🤨' and then it's like my memory had been wiped and i can't remember but i still feel sure. idk if it still fits in with false memories but i have noticed it after i started experiencing false memories
@moon027097 That’s a great way to put it. Grounding exercises have been helpful. I really like the 5-4-3-2-1 and I try to repeat it a few times to remind myself of my surroundings and engage the 5 senses
Sometimes I'll do something and know I did it, but my OCD will make me feel like I have to do it again because it says I didn't do it, even though I know I did. Sometimes I give into the compulsion of acting on what my OCD tells me about it, and other times I don't.
YES SO BADLY.
I can’t remember much at all.
I some ways, yes I don’t know if this is exactly false memory OCD but I will a lot of times gets a intrusive thought and my intrusive thoughts want me to figure out what type of intrusive thought it is, do a compulsion, and/or do a specific type of ERP and if I don’t and just forget it and/or move on it threatens by saying something along the lines of “This is important and different form the last intrusive thought if you don’t do what I say then the intrusive thoughts you have have/had about killing your family is correct and you just do it or else your evading the truth.”
im going to be vague here, but basically i did something in the past that i regret and it became a huge point of my OCD but i have talked to my therapist and i have mostly moved past it. i watched a video by an OCD youtuber that really put it into perspective. anyway, i have been with minimal worry for a few days, but now im having worries related to i think false memory? basically it’s like “oh but what if i said/ did this and just forgot that means i harmed this person im a bad person”. to me it sounds like textbook OCD but im just wondering if anyone else has experienced false memory / real event at the same time. i have a really horrible memory which is making it even more stressful. any responses are appreciated!
Hey everyone, I’m still struggling a bit with false memory ocd. Mine revolves around my relationship. There are some things I have remembered that occurred early on in the relationship, whether someone texted me on Snapchat or TikTok etc. and it was old friends of mine from a friend group. In the friend group it was me and about couple guys and girls. I remember there being an instance where one of the guys had messaged me on Snapchat after I had posted something about a tv show or I had posted a picture of me and my mom and they reached out to me saying something and I honestly can’t remember at all what they had said to me but I’m pretty sure i remember I responded with “Lol” or “Thank you” , and I think the reason I’m really struggling right now is that I can’t remember hardly anything about the text at all. And of course, my ocd is trying to convince me that it was either a flirty chat, or something else. I also want to mention that I unadded a lot of people off my snap, mostly guys on TikTok etc after dating my boyfriend because I felt like that was respectful. And even after doing that, my OCD was trying to convince me that I un added them because I was hiding something or I was on adding them because I didn’t want my boyfriend to see that they were on my Snapchat, which was not the case at all. I think I’m just really struggling because I think about past events that have happened in my mind is trying to convince me that something else happened, rather than allowing me to remember what actually went on. I just wanted to come on here and ask if anyone else struggles with something like this because it’s been really bothering me the past couple days and I know I would never do anything to hurt my boyfriend because I love him so much it’s just I freak out constantly, and it bothers me a lot.
any advice for when you get false memories that feel really real? especially something that had JUST happened, it’s like ur brain distorts it. i feel like i do something wrong 24/7 then i get over it and ocd latched onto something new
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