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Originally Posted by TheNextOne
I haven't been to therapy, but I remember when I had OCD the whole "false memories" thing happened with me and caused quite a few problems. Basically I would replay an event in my head over and over, questioning whether or not I did something negative. At times my OCD fabricated events/thoughts which I later believed, as in some cases I was able to go back and check objective data to find out that what actually happened contradicted the stuff my memory told me that I'd done.
It's problematic, but at the end of the day you have to trust the more reliable common ground, you know yourself well enough to know that you wouldn't do/think certain things. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt. If you have to question whether or not you lied about something, then the odds are you didn't lie about it at all.
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That's one of the things I worry about. That I've managed to fabricate memories and then managed to trick myself into believing them which leads to me lying about things (even though I wouldn't do it intentionally).
I know that thought's pretty irrational but I can't help but worrying about it anyway. So I guess it's good to try this ERP thing, though I'm quite confused about
how to think. If I was to tell myself I'm a liar every time I start worrying about such things then I'd know I'd be lying to myself (because I know I'm not a liar even though my brain manages to make me doubt myself an awful lot), which would then lead to me saying things like "no I'm not" or "I'm a very honest person" or proving to myself I'm not. Do you know what I mean? It's a bit difficult to explain.