Ok so i was thinking about a past bad real event i had and it’s something im not proud of but then my mind seems to be making up random details to make the situation worse than it was and i can’t even tell whats real anymore. Has anyone had the same thing?
Best way I have dealt with this is to not engage. Just because your brain feeds you the thought , does not mean you have to engage with it. Don’t try to figure it out. Did this happen , did it not , did it happen the way I remember it? Does not matter. It was In the past , and we don’t live there. We live in the present so be present. Brain feeds me the, “do you remember that time you said something really stupid and that random stranger laughed at you? “ Nahh brain , I don’t. Maybe it happened maybe it did not. Either way I don’t care. Maybe I did say it and it was awful. I don’t care, it was who knows how long ago. I can’t change it regardless. What I have learned is that people who don’t have ocd , spend way less time remembering and thinking about things we did. I’ve said some rude shit to people I care about over the years that I did not mean too. Or maybe I did, who knows. I feel like I can remember it like it happened yesterday. I’ve had those people tell me they have no clue what I’m talking about. Now it might have happened the way I thought it did, maybe not. But that person can’t even remember it so why should I put that much effort into it to beat my self up. Because OCD tells me too? OCD can kick rocks.
it’s stressing me out so bad because i was already worrying about the real event and now it’s got worse
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