Anyone have any experience with false memories

yup totally...I am 95% sure what I'm thinking didn't happen but theres always doubt isn't there....then I ask my work colleague for reassurance as he was with me and of course even though he says nothing happened, you still doubt what hes telling you lol...vicious circle

Your memory is just as good as his, you’re just questioning yours because of OCD. Overtime you’ll be 100%. (Not OCD 100% there’s no such thing as Satisfying OCD) Try your best to not ask for reassurance because the compulsion keeps the ocd alive.

yeah it's made me very low....I can still remember stupid things about the night in question and can also remember texting my gf so I'm sure I would remember something as terrible as cheating

mine is fear of having cheated on partner after drinking

Yes. I wish I didn’t. I just keep going over a memory over and over to make sure what I imagined didn’t happen in real life. It is extremely scary. I know the imagination isn’t real but I just want to know FOR CERTAIN. But it doesn’t matter, no matter how many times I go over it, I’ll never know FOR CERTAIN. Overtime, I trust my heart and my soul and know what is true, but the imagination “feels” real. As time passes and I continue to fight that compulsion (to ruminate over the memory) my feelings mirror my thoughts and I don’t feel doubt anymore. Does that make sense?

That’s the same doubt as with all kind of OCD, if you try to just accept that uncertainty, you’ll be able to think more clear after I while. You’ll get over it, but you have to actively stop pondering it then :)

Of course, nothing to put energy on, you’ll never get anywhere that will make you satisfied :) But for curiosity, what’s your about? Look at this, quite funny https://youtu.be/prN6_Lt1VZg :)

its all because alcohol was involved and an overnight stay with work colleagues, that has created the doubt

thanks =)

I had the same thing happen to me when I was in college. I went over to the guys dorm room drunk as hell and my bf gaslighted me about it. I asked the guy for reassurance and he said nothing happened but what if he lied? Doesn’t matter. I wasn’t black out drunk and I know it didn’t happen in my heart but I kept going over it to make surrrrre. Eventually, I found out he was cheating on me so I left him anyway. I am now 100% sure. I’ve had a couple of false memory episodes that nearly killed me, but I’m doing ok. I know myself and the routine. It will get better.