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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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This really helped me a lot! Thank you for sharing this!
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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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Thank you for sharing this!
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Yeahhh I remember playing life simulator games and making some of my characters lesbians and I’m so scared 😭
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- 25w
Can it feel like you literally remember a false memory happening? And it feels like the memory has always been there and you vividly remember it happening that way? Because I don’t even know if I’m experiencing a false memory or not but god it feels so fucking real. Like I literally remember it happening. But what’s weird is the original memory was kind of different. 2 years later, the memory is not the same, but it feels like I literally remember it happening. And in this memory, I’m fucking snapping. I’m acting on my thoughts. I feel like a fucking psycho. I hope this is just OCD
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- 21w
I got pure o. I don't think that's really the correct term but you get what i'm talking about. I would say that i have it because my ocd just picks and chooses what subtype it wants to bother with me today. Right now, i'm suffering with real event ocd and, hopefully, false memories. But i think i might have cracked the code on it. So my real events and false memories are pretty much private related, which makes it worse because there's no evidence or proof. There are some memories (real events) i can think about and accept that they happened. I still feel guilt and shame but i have closure from it. And there's the other memories (hopefully false memories) that i look at and just cannot wrap my head around. They feel so real like they actually happened and it gives me so much stress, but i sit there and think and think and think on it to see if it actually happened. Btw, these false memories come from my real events but in different situations and times. Like if it was true, i would accept it. Whether or not it made me feel guilt or shame, i would still accept it happened. This is what i think i figured out. I can look at a memory and know for certain it happened. I don't need evidence or nothing. The false memories make me question myself if it did happen. It's still very vivid and looks so real like a real memory, but i just can't be for certain if i did that. It makes me feel like i'm in denial of my past. Sometimes they both work together. A real event can happen but false memories can use its work to detail out the event, tryna make it much worse than it was. Or you can be thinking of a false memory but real events can try linking with that false memory to making you think you did do that. If this makes any sense or if what i’m saying is correct or i’m just crazy, please tell me. All advice is welcome. Thank you
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- 21w
Has false memory OCD affected you so badly that you feel that a lot of your memories period are unclear, vague, fuzzy and can’t recall correctly?
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