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False memory
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?
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?
yeah. if i could add to that, i also feel like i can't even really be sure of things im doing in the moment or maybe moments after i've done something. it's really strange. like i'll move my bag and be really sure that im moving my bag, my brain will be like, 'well did you though?🤨' and then it's like my memory had been wiped and i can't remember but i still feel sure. idk if it still fits in with false memories but i have noticed it after i started experiencing false memories
@moon027097 That’s a great way to put it. Grounding exercises have been helpful. I really like the 5-4-3-2-1 and I try to repeat it a few times to remind myself of my surroundings and engage the 5 senses
Sometimes I'll do something and know I did it, but my OCD will make me feel like I have to do it again because it says I didn't do it, even though I know I did. Sometimes I give into the compulsion of acting on what my OCD tells me about it, and other times I don't.
YES SO BADLY.
I can’t remember much at all.
I some ways, yes I don’t know if this is exactly false memory OCD but I will a lot of times gets a intrusive thought and my intrusive thoughts want me to figure out what type of intrusive thought it is, do a compulsion, and/or do a specific type of ERP and if I don’t and just forget it and/or move on it threatens by saying something along the lines of “This is important and different form the last intrusive thought if you don’t do what I say then the intrusive thoughts you have have/had about killing your family is correct and you just do it or else your evading the truth.”
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
can a false memory feel very very very real? because i literally don’t know if something happened or not. absolutely no clue but it feels so real
I basically can’t stop thinking about the false memories and I’ve been thinking about them non-stop since I’ve woken up today. I keep picturing the images / the false memory and I focus and fixate on the images and they feel so so real and realistic and when I think of them I get a feeling of “clarity” and a genuine sense of knowing and belief that deep down I know these memories are true and have happened and that I’m just in denial and lying to myself and you by saying that they’re false memories when in actuality I know they’re real which is also really frustrating and makes me feel uncomfortable. On top of that as I’m writing this message my stomach won’t stop turning and it really hurts and I just want to cry and my brain says that I’m experiencing these physical feelings because I know I am lying and just in denial and that these physical symptoms are proof that I am lying and just in denial and I just don’t know what to do or how to calm down. I really don’t want these memories to be true and I want them to be false more than anything in the world and I am not lying when I say I don’t know whether or not they’re real and I’m not lying or pretending they’re false memories but the more I say that to myself the more it feels like a lie and I’m just terrified at the thought and idea of them being even 1% true because why wouldn’t they be? Is it really possible to fabricate entire memories or doing sexual things to and with another person that are that detailed and realistic :/ My brain says things will only get better once I admit to the false memories and stop lying to myself and stop being in denial and stop using false memory ocd as an excuse and just admit to them because I know deep down I have done them and that they’re true which is why I feel a deep sense of clarity about them and that I am just continuing to lie to myself, to my girlfriend, to my therapist and to my family when I say I don’t know whether I have done anything sexual to or with this person because deep down I know I have I just don’t want to admit it so I’m continuing to be in this heavy state and cycle of denial because I don’t want to accept what I have done. I just want this to end. I just want confirmation that I have never done anything sexual to or with this person and that these memories are entirely fabricated by my ocd and have no basis in reality but I don’t even think that’s possible. I’m so done.
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