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- 3y
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- Date posted
- 3y
Obsessive doubt will do this to you from time to time! Intrusive experiences can come in the form of thoughts, ideas, images, impulses, and feelings - and so much more. So keep in mind that just because we feel something does not necessarily mean that it's true. I know it is so much easier said than done but you've got this.
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- 3y
thank you so much for responding! i’m gonna try and not second guess my memory because like you said, it makes me less confident in what really happen. false memory is just a very difficult theme to deal with but i won’t let ocd beat me!!
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- 3y
I am dealing with this too!!!!!
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- 3y
it’s the absolute worse! it’s pure agony. it consumes every part of me to the point where i don’t know how to live a normal, happy life. i feel so guilt and ashamed. i want to expose myself and stop myself from not trying to figure it out, but i always fail because it’s too hard to live with the uncertainty. how does it make you feel?
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- 3y
I remember acting on the thought, but I'm not sure if it's because i have replayed the thought so much or if it's completely false.
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- 3y
i don’t want to give you any reassurance, but what i know about false memory is that every time you go back and try to remember exactly what happened, what really truly happen gets foggy. your mind gets confused and starts adding some imaginary details. this is what makes it real. replaying it over and over again fuels the anxiety.
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- 3y
@luna ✨ It sucks so bad. I keep remembering doing something to someone while they were sleeping.
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- 3y
@Miserable @miserable i’m so so sorry you’re going through that. i used to have similar thoughts and it was overbearing. it was such a difficult time in my life when that was my theme. i hope you can try to recover from it and live with peace. i know it’s not easy, but you have the strength to power through it.
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Checking your memories will make you more doubtful! I want you to know that that's not necessarily something wrong with you or your brain. Research shows the more we check something, be it a lock or our memory, the less confidence we are in our memory of that thing. <3
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 23w
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
- Date posted
- 18w
Same theme of harming my family member in a similar way the details what I said and what was shown to them and the environment around me but that’s all I can get it’s hard to focus on the environment only what I said and what I did. This memory keeps coming up and leaving its instant. They seem to be ok the one in question I also don’t have a timeline if I harmed them no timeline like I did it this time or I don’t remember. I don’t rmemenr actually ever doing this. I felt like a creep because this woman days ago made me feel like one I internalized that and now my mind has been picking up thoughts or “memories” of harming my family member but I can’t ever rmemenr doing anything like that plus the dream or “memory” when I had it was in another state years ago but it only came up now.
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- 18w
I have had the same false memory/instrusive image of me doing something horrible to someone when I was 12 and they were younger. It is a memory based on a real event. I truly don’t know if it’s real or not but obviously, the more I think about it the more I think it’s true. This has led my mind to become slightly paranoid. I worry that if this horrible image in my head is true then one day the person I might have hurt will come and k*ll me. I’m really scared I feel like I won’t feel better as long as this “memory” is in my head. Does anyone have advice?
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