Does anyone else have the subtype of false memory? Where their minds will try to convince them they’ve done something they didn’t. It feels so real and I can’t get this one false memory intrusive thought out of my head and I’ve been feeling the guilt of it as if it actually happened and I’m so spun up in it I’m like I don’t even know it I did this thing or not. Help :(
I think if I’m questioning it in the first place that’s a sign it’s false memory ocd
The advice I’ve gotten is - if you did something, you would KNOW. like really know. Not be confused if you did the thing or not. Real guilt doesn’t make you question if you did the thing or not, it is certain and specific. False memory is false guilt. It’s guilt without a specific center point.
@Anonymous Any advice on how to move on from the thought?
@Anonymous Oh I really like how you discribed ocd false memory
@Anonymous I am not a Taylor swift fan, but in the song opalite is says “when you know, you know” and “when you you don’t, you don’t”. That kinda applies here, towards ocd thoughts.
@Anna,hi! Yesss that’s the perfect song lyric!!! <3
this is my life at the moment. hardest obsession for me so far
This is what I’m going thru rn. It feels so real and it’s like when I think abt the memory it’s like it actually happened. But it’s also blurry and like my brain keeps adding things on to the “memory”. Idek if it’s real or not, and the fact that it might be is why I feel so guilty. The worst part is the memory isn’t about smt I DID but something I possibly felt/thought. OCD is terrible. But you’ll get thru this.
@bruceWayne1 The more you try to figure it out the more your mind will run with the false memory and keep adding onto it to make it the worse possible scenario. I keep telling myself “this is an intrusive thought/false memory brought on during an ocd flare up and I do not need to engage”.
Yup:(
@Sofia_123456789 Have you figured out how to determine if you’re experiencing false memory or remember actual fact?
@It.girl this exact question is keeping you in the loop. I have the same problem.
@ocdbelowzero I was triggered by someone asking me if the guy they’ve been talking to messaged me trying to get with me (I’ve been with my boyfriend now for almost a year). I told this person “no”, because that’s the truth. Then my ocd started spiralling and being like “are you sure you didn’t cheat on your boyfriend with that person?”. When I finally had some clarity in that because I realized how ridiculous it was and that I obviously did not cheat on my boyfriend, THEN my ocd mind was like “are you sure you didn’t kiss someone on your girls trip last summer”. And now I am spiralling. Like I’m pretty sure I would remember something like that. It wouldn’t just pop back up in my head 5 months later during an ocd flare up. I’ve never thought once about my girls trip in that sense because there was nothing to think about, I didn’t do anything wrong. I love my boyfriend so much and would never cheat on him but the more my thoughts spiral the more I’m like “omg I don’t think I did but now I don’t know I’m so in my head”. I’m don’t know how to get past this one. :(
@It.girl I have no advice because I have a simmilar situation. I’m so sorry you feel this way.
Yes, I have this. Combined with pocd. It’s really a nightmare.
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