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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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- 25w
False memory OCD is such a pest. It’s really hard to deal with the feelings of certainty and anxiety, trying to discern if things are false memories or real memories, what if they’re real memories, what if my OCD is right, what if because my OCD was right about one thing it’s also right about this thing, what if it knows something I don’t or haven’t realized yet, what if the real memory it’s taking from is actually false and the false memory is true. And it’s worse because the theme and false memory is so high stakes and it’s terrifying to consider what if it’s actually true and the consequences, but that only feeds the OCD, and it doesn’t help that I keep mentally prodding at it to see if the feelings of certainty are still there. It makes the false memories seem so real, and it’s like it wants me to admit the false memory actually happened when I don’t know that it did, and I’ll never know. I try to sit with the uncertainty but my OCD makes this feel so real and it creates so much certainty that this did happen that it’s so hard to keep telling myself that I don’t know, that this could be a real memory or it might not be and I’ll never know, and to remember that this came up a few days ago and I was pretty sure it was a false memory and I was handling it. Like remembering the false memory made it an actual memory. I have no idea if any of this makes any sense - it’s getting so meta lol. Reading all of this, it’s no wonder it’s so hard to sit with the uncertainty about if it’s a real memory or false. It’s been on my mind over the last week, too, which probably doesn’t help things, because the deeper I try to delve into it, the more complicated it becomes, and trying to point out that logically, it doesn’t make any sense, doesn’t help because my OCD comes up with scenarios and what-ifs and ways that this could have happened. It’s really tough to sit with when my OCD is so convinced this is true and it wants me to be convinced, too. I could really use some support, validation, encouragement, anything. If you made it this far, thanks for reading - please take care of yourselves. ❤️🤗
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How do you know the difference :( I genuinely cannot keep living in this torment. it all started with an ‘intrusive thought’ where I had like a hazy flash of something reading an article. and I remember thinking ‘what if’ and ‘what is this’ and then that intrusive thought turned into me ‘remembering’ something else. which caused me panic. then I started trying to find evidence because it contradicted what I remembered this entire time. this was last year in like september. fast forward to march this year, it came back up- but this time stronger and with more ‘details’ and what nots. and I’ve been ruminating on it since then trying to remember and connect and It’s like I’ve added all of these details. but are they real? or is this just my OCD? I just feel like if it were real I would have never been able to keep it to myself. but also what if it was so traumatic that I blocked it out? because it all makes NO sense for me to do something like that. but it also fits what I was thinking at the time. idk
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I’m reaching out for educational and self-awareness purposes, hoping to better understand something I’ve been mentally struggling with for several years. Around five years ago, I began having a deeply distressing memory involving the fear that I may have acted inappropriately toward my younger sister when I was around 13–14 years old. The details are vague, fragmented, and unclear—but ever since this thought first appeared, I’ve treated it as if it were a real event. I’ve carried immense guilt, fear, and anxiety for years, convinced that I must have done something horrible. Despite asking my sister (who remembers absolutely nothing, has never shown signs of discomfort, and has told me more than once that she would’ve spoken up if anything had happened), the doubt and guilt never went away. The memory feels real, yet there is no external confirmation, no direct recall, and no evidence beyond my own mental images and fear. I’ve also struggled with obsessive thoughts in other areas, such as health anxiety since childhood—frequent doctor visits, checking my pulse, obsessing over illness—and only recently learned about false memory OCD, which aligns with my experience. I’m not currently seeking therapy but would greatly appreciate your professional opinion from an educational perspective: Does this sound more like a real memory, or more likely a false memory created by OCD or anxiety-related mechanisms I am stuck between a normal person or a s*xual abuser
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