I’ve been having a lot of false memories lately, it’s been keeping me up at night and having me cry throughout the day.
First, over a week ago, I woke up with the thought „did I touch my badminton trainer inappropriately?“ and I started getting images of me doing so even though I could never actually recall doing that. It felt very real and ruined my Christmas. My trainer had never had any problem with me and I’ve only been there a few times already, I’d probably remember if I had done that.
Then, right the day after, I woke up with the thought „did I wake up during the night and go downstairs and hurt my dog?“, however, I couldn’t recall doing so either but I was afraid that I had just forgotten it due to tiredness or something. I could recall almost everything from the night and based on evidence and from what I can recall I woke up once and instantly went back to sleep bc I didn’t want to get up to go to the toilet. But I kept getting images of me doing so and they made me feel so horrible I had to contact some online service for people who don’t feel well.
And then right the day after that, while just normally thinking, I got an image of me doing sth even worse to another human being. I don’t even want to go into details bc it’s such a horrible thing. I immediately started to try and tell myself „that never happened, you’d remember if you had done sth this horrible“, but the more I thought, the more it got stuck in my brain. It was on my mind 24/7 for two days straight. I started thinking about ending my life because I felt so horrible. I kept getting those images. I also started to be like „but I can’t even remember what was supposed to happen before that and after that, to do this you’d have to have done sth different which you KNOW you have never done. You were always afraid of even getting into a one meter radius of this person. It doesn’t make sense, it’s just a false memory. Forget about it….. but what if? I’d be a terrible person.“ and then this all goes in a circle again. Those supposed memories are only a few months up to one year ago and I always knew I hadn’t hurt this person EVER. I always stayed away from them due to my intrusive thoughts etc. I couldn’t even touch them for one second. But my brain keeps mixing up memories from other things. For example, it’ll use my memory of my mother doing sth or telling me to do so to tell me that this is what I did back then. I can’t actually recall doing so, it feels like my brain is mixing all of my memories up. There’s more evidence like reassurance from that person etc but I keep doubting if they may just have forgotten about it and since that still wouldn’t be a forgivable crime I can’t stop doubting it. It’s sth I’d never do and I never recalled doing.
is it possible to just forget about a horrible crime in a few days or even less? Because I never could recall going away from this person knowing I had hurt them.