I suffer deeply with low memory confidence, and I’ve had a few false memories that I’ve been able to let go after months of worry, but I have recently developed a new one. It just seems so much worse, so much more appalling, and the other ones were already awful. I saw a photo in my camera roll, nothing too special, but I’d been struggling with a type of harm OCD so I started wondering: “What if I hurt these kids in the photo?” The moment I asked myself that I regretted it, because I know where my mind goes from there, but I want to be able to dismiss these thoughts like I do my other ones. They cause me so much distress, because if something did happen, I can’t change the past. I had another very similar memory that I got over just yesterday, and this new one has taken its place. I feel like I can’t let it go, I need to know.