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Basically i think thats it... Like i’ll have a normal memory then my ocd convinces me that, while all the facts remain the same, my motivations were bad or i am misremembering how i felt about it
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This times a million
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Like what slaying the dragon said. For me I had a memory at work pop up into my head a few years later, but when it came into my head I had doubt on if I should've done it or shouldn't have done it. In the end it drove me nuts for years. I often find that false memory combines with real event which comes with your core fears. So I have perfectionism/scrupulousity so for me the false memory combines with the real event to second guess my motives. Not sure if that helped or made it more confusing :-)
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I do this as well
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Could what I have said also he considered false memory or like what would that be considered I guess? Also thanks for sharing!
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Omg my grammar, I meant to say, could I said also be considered false memory?? Or no?
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@noone800 I think that it's one, sometimes for me it's like Im 99% positive it was an apple but that 1% is like no it was a carrot and second guess myself on alot of other things as well. But it's like my gut is telling me it was an apple
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@sierrapanda Yeah that’s the same for me kind of, I’ll be like “well I thought I had an apple” but then my brain is like “no you could have had a carrot” and then I get a little anxious and like it feels like I had a carrot then. Ughh I hate ocd haha
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It sucks because I heard that anxiety and depression make memory even less reliable than it already is. So false memory OCD is a real pain to deal with.
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Very much so especially when you start questioning what else is real or false
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It's worse when someone is aware of this and uses it to their advantage and then you have no idea anymore
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Wow, that sounds like a not nice person
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I've literally had a an OCD theme of having done something wrong, where someone then gaslighted me about that exact thing and it made it 100x worse
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@Scoggy Exactly why I'm in the process of a divorce. Nobody deserves to be with someone who plays off your mental illness
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Mine have been about my intentions a LOT of times, I've also gotten them very easily from other people's suggestions because I really doubt my own memory and perspective all the time, so other people's thoughts just seem more reliable, I get ideas in my head or question something then I get image flashes of a scenario with it and they feel really real and make me feel sick basically and I can't stop thinking about them or looking for clues to tell me whether it's true. Didn't realise for years that this can be OCD. Plus like a billion times when I have told a lie (e.g. that I did my homework but forgot it, or codependent stuff like saying I like the same thing as someone else, or have had the same experience as them) I then start questioning whether I said the lie because it's actually true. Even when I think I remember my original motivation for a lie like that and it makes sense, the doubt stays and it's like I can imagine both of them and they feel the same.
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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!
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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.
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Does anyone have advice on distinguishing between real event ocd and false memory ocd? If my current obsession is whether this intrusive image in my head is a real memory even though there’s no evidence it is, does that seem more like real event ocd or false memory? I feel like I’m getting into a trap of worrying that I’m obsessing over a real event instead of a false image and keep having thoughts that say “you know you did this” even though I really don’t think I did.
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