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- 6y ago
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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.
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- 6y ago
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
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- 6y ago
mine is fear of having cheated on partner after drinking
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- 6y ago
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?
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- 3y ago
Yes! Literally dealing w the same thing
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- 6y ago
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 :)
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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 :)
- Date posted
- 6y ago
its all because alcohol was involved and an overnight stay with work colleagues, that has created the doubt
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- 6y ago
thanks =)
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- 6y ago
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.
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- 17w ago
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- 10w ago
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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- 9w ago
I know I was here earlier on with a question as well lol but has anyone ever found that when a new false memory takes its place at the forefront of your mind, it's almost easier to disregard the old false memories and say "Yeah that stuff didn't actually happen that way". It feels like OCD giving you a little reward for letting it place a new, shinier false memory in your head. Anyone experience the same thing? Maybe I've asked a similar question before.
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