Hello Mrsnikia, and a warm welcome to the forums.
People with OCD may know their thoughts and behaviours but they don't make sense, and what it also does is create our memory confidence because we don't have the certainty in what we believe and this often leads to repetitive or compulsive behaviours that are associated with this disorder.
People with OCD may feel as though there is a breakdown in non verbal as well as planning a function, which is what can easily happen to me in past years, now there is no need for me to organise or plan any function.
OCD can be linked to deficits in memory such as remembering places on a map or the location of a room within a building, that makes it difficult to access when it needs to be recalled, of course, any head injury can contribute to this as I have also suffered from.
When this problem is worse is when your OCD is, an example, having a false memory is one that seems real in your mind but is fabricated in part or in whole, such as believing you started the washing machine before going out, only to come home and find you didn’t.
These are caused because sufferers don't have confidence in their own memories and may create intrusive thoughts.
Hope to hear back from you.
Geoff.
