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I also get these false memories sometimes, and wow they always seem so real. They seem so fuzzy and not at all like a real memory you can get. My best advice is to just watch the "memory" as is, useless event in your mind. No rituals, no avoidance, just let it be the there for how long it wants to. Be resilience , determined not to give in.. its impossible to a have a perfect memory.
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It happens to me alot daily i get sudden intrussive thought that i posted violent threats on the internet somewhere or on paper and that i will be fired for it and sent to jail for it. Very painful miserable harm ocd intrussive thoughts i have to deal with daily and nightly, i smoke alot of medical marijuana daily and nightly and i digest cbd oil 2 times a day to try to help me with my pain and misery from my intrussive thoughts false images false visions false memories. Very tough to trust yourself when ocd intrussive thoughts take over, but deep down inside my heart i know i dont want to post write down or say Harmful dangerous threats On the internet or in person or on paper i know deep down inside my soul i dont want to say bad things and i dont want anything bad to happen. Whats your best advice for me my friend? To continue to not check my internet history To see if i posted anything harmful in text or comment form and to not check around a room i have been in to see if i left a bad Harmful written letter note?
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My OCD tricks me into having memories of things that never really happened
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Mine start out fuzzy and then become clearer the more I ruminate on them---do you see the same thing?
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@bg24 Yeah its miserable when intrussive thoughts take over the mind
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@Russ1989 Yes it's so difficult living with these false memories. My advice ia not doing any checking at all, in thr beginning you willl feel extreme anxiety andit will feel true to you. But over time you will learn to live with it and the doubt and anxiety will fade away
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Im dealing with this now. ,, i wake up and dont rememeber turning off my internet tv and i have intrussive thoughts that feel real that i posted violent harmful comments on the internet and i will be sent to jail for it. I know i can check my phones internet history to see if i posted anything threatening and dangerous but i refuse cause i feel like that would be feeding into the harm ocd.
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No checking! It will feel like you'll almost die if you don't check. But this is only a false alarm from our brain, nothing will harm you!
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Without trying to seek reassurance, I’m wondering if anyone has insight on identifying an intrusive thought vs reality. Something that’s always really helped ground me in moments of false memory ocd is clearly remembering the exact moment the thought arose and how it started as “what if I cheated and don’t remember.” Then the images come and are extremely distressing, but I’ve always found some comfort in coming back to that moment of “this started as what if.” It feels like my brain is almost getting more creative with the thoughts now, and I’ve been having probably the worst anxiety of my life the past couple months after another intrusive thought entered my mind. I woke up after a night drinking and thought to myself “did you kiss your friend and don’t remember?” (Didn’t happen, undeniably proved). The rest of the day I stayed anxious about other things I could have done and poured over all my memories of the night. Then the next day I finally had found some peace based on all the evidence from my friends who were with me that nothing bad happened. I then thought “what about when you went to the bathroom,” which I hadn’t really been thinking about before, and then my mind immediately started flashing with images of me performing sex acts in the bathroom with some person who has no name, face, details, or anything I remember about interacting with them. I think I’m just concerned that this was a moment of genuine memory recall since I hadn’t been thinking about the bathroom before, and it was more of a sudden flash of images and “did you do that” vs “what if you did that.” I’m wondering how others are able to identify that something is an intrusive thought vs reality.
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Hey all, I've been okay for a while, but today I'm having a hard time with my sexually-themed false memory thoughts and the compulsion to try and "figure it out". While I've learned enough over time that "figuring it out" doesn't work, I'm just feeling extra overwhelmed today. Stuff that happened over 7 years ago is really getting to me, I'm in this limbo state just sitting here with it all but... ...anyone have any general tips for false-memory OCD?
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Hey all, I’ve been having some ebbs and flows in recovery, but for the most part I’ve really had a lot of improvements in quality of life since starting treatment in 2023. Something that really trips me up is ruminating on my past and looking for “evidence” or “proof” that the things that I’m obsessed with are real and not OCD. I spend quite a lot of time doing this. I wasn’t fully aware I was doing it until recently. Example: that I’m secretly gay and lying to everyone (I’m bi), that I’m a horrible person deep down, that I’ve never actually loved any person including my family, that I have the “wrong” political or religious beliefs. I look for proof in every corner of my past. It makes some sense that I think this way because with my previous therapist, who I saw for 8 years and did not diagnose me with OCD, we would look for evidence and proof that my obsessions are irrational and I learned to deal with them that way. At the time it was a lot of health concern and contamination themes, but I literally learned to ruminate and search for relief. But I just kept getting sicker and sicker until I got diagnosed with OCD. It’s a frustrating compulsion that keeps showing up for me. What if these scary things are true? What if it’s not OCD at all and I’m in denial? Have I lied my way into thinking I have OCD? It’s so hard. Anyway, I’m curious if anyone else has come across this in recovery? Let me know your thoughts and I hope you’re well. ❤️
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