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- noone800
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- 4y ago
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- FreemeofocdFreemeofocd
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- 4y ago
Your brain tends to fabricate details that confirm your fears. It will always run with the would ifs and worst case scenarios and the more you try to remember the more details that mirror your fears will present themselves. I struggle with false memory/real event ocd and I remember things way inaccurately. Ocd has a field day with these themes. We already have an overactive imagination, so it loves to hide in the grey areas and play up our doubts. You’re never going to remember what happened.
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- noone800noone800
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- 4y ago
This really helped me a lot! Thank you for sharing this!
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- Nachos34 Nachos34
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- 4y ago
I’m not sure about tips but it can happen. I’m very paranoid about ages and who I find “good looking/cute/attractive” in a sense of actually finding them attractive. And I remember I saw this guys at Downtown Disney. And a few day later I remembered “omg I called that boy cute looking and idek what age he was! I told my friend I as a cute boy and what if he was a 10 yr old.” So I went back to the message I Sent. And I never said that. I just said I was really paranoid. But my brain changed it and made me remember something else.
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- noone800noone800
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- 4y ago
Thank you for sharing this!
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- Bri <3Bri <3
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- 4y ago
Yeahhh I remember playing life simulator games and making some of my characters lesbians and I’m so scared 😭
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- JB21
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- 6y ago
Does anybody struggle with POCD? I’m putting things into place lately to let my thoughts be there and not having to listen to them and I do admit I feel a little better and the thoughts are less and anxiety it less when I’m around people but there’s an urge in the back of my mind to ‘make sure’ and to think and analyse about things just to ‘check’ I definitely know for certain that this isn’t true, this is making recovery quite hard! Any tips please? Also I find sometimes reading things on google can be unhelpful and disheartening, which I need to stop doing! Thanks for reading ?
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- deputydean
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- 5y ago
Question for you guys, Those of you who suffer from HOCD or POCD and have vivid memories that contradict who you feel you are, how do you manage those memories? I had an OCD/anxiety attack that clinged on to the memories around me being curious after being bullied in school. My OCD keeps telling me that I enjoyed those experiences more than I should have. Even though it ended in tears and me knowing that that's not who I am, my OCD keeps telling me that it's an indication of my being gay or bi. I realize that some of those memories may be fake, but in the scope of acceptance of uncertainty let's assume that everything is right. My therapist tried to calm me down by saying that this is really normal and expected in young children and that it has nothing to do with who we are, especially since I was interested in girls and always fantasized about chased after them from a very young age.
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- forestlife00
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Anyone else struggle with real event type OCD (OCD latches on to a real life situation you’ve experienced)? How can we know the difference between what actually happened and if it’s just my OCD making me feel like a horrible person? Specifically with harm/pedophile OCD. Anyone ever experienced this before?
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