Delete painful memories from brain

jillio said:
That is quite an unfair assumption to make, much less state.
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I'll respect your opinion. However, I greatly disagree.

IE: Employment rate among the disabled is higher than the normal people.

IE #2: Dropping out of a normal institution of higher education among the disabled is higher than the normal people.

IE #3: This is a - well to be frank - a website for the disabled. There are users that has multiple disabilities on the site as well.

IE #4: SS benefits are used mostly by the disabled. The normal people can't use their benefits until they are 1.) Disabled or 2.) Retired in most cases.

Need I go on?
 
Hear Again said:
you raise some excellent questions, netrox. while i think this has the potential to be a good thing, i also think it could be detrimental as well. after all, if it were not for painful experiences/memories, how could we grow emotionally? the loss of my mother, father, one of my sisters, a dear friend, my first guide dog and my hearing all served to make me a stronger person.
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well - for many, we do grow emotionally after painful memories but for some... they can't. their painful memories can be very crippling. for example - extremely traumatic experience that result in extreme PTSD. so this memory erasure can be effective in treating them if medication/therapy/etc. have failed.
 
Jiro said:
so this memory erasure can be effective in treating them if medication/therapy/etc. have failed.
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You're absolutely right that traumatic memories can cause people to be stuck in a cycle of pain.

In fact, there is a treatment for PTSD called EMDR that involves helping people with their traumatic memories. The goal of EMDR is to process the memories, though, not to erase them. The main way of treating PTSD symptoms is by eliminating the emotional baggage attached to the memories, more so than the memories themselves.
 
The question still remains: If the memory is eliminated for a certain PTSD event, would the emotion be eliminated?
 
Jiro said:
well - for many, we do grow emotionally after painful memories but for some... they can't. their painful memories can be very crippling. for example - extremely traumatic experience that result in extreme PTSD. so this memory erasure can be effective in treating them if medication/therapy/etc. have failed.
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true. i never considered that aspect jiro, but you're exactly right.
 
Nika said:
You're absolutely right that traumatic memories can cause people to be stuck in a cycle of pain.

In fact, there is a treatment for PTSD called EMDR that involves helping people with their traumatic memories. The goal of EMDR is to process the memories, though, not to erase them. The main way of treating PTSD symptoms is by eliminating the emotional baggage attached to the memories, more so than the memories themselves.
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nika and/or jillio,

this may seem like a stupid question, but can ptsd be treated with ect (electroconvulsive therapy)? i know ect can be effective with treatment resistant depression and some types of bipolar.
 
Probably Deaf-Blind is normal to you, but it is not normal to the 300million others.

I define a normal person as in a person without disability in this discussion.
 
posts from hell said:
Feel free to share to tell me why I was wrong then.
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you're wrong because deafblind people (or anyone with a disability) is capable of doing just as much as anyone who can see (except for driving). just because i do things differently (for example, reading braille as opposed to print) doesn't mean i'm not normal.
 
Alright, but my original point was that disabled people are more likely to be on SS over than these who are not defined as disabled, hence "normal"
 
Hear Again said:
but can ptsd be treated with ect (electroconvulsive therapy)?
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I don't know. I do know that about 50% of people diagnosed with PTSD are also diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder, which tends to aggravate PTSD symptoms. So if ECT can help with MDD, maybe it can indirectly help someone who has a co-diagnosis of PTSD.
 
Jiro said:
we do grow emotionally after painful memories but for some... they can't. their painful memories can be very crippling. for example - extremely traumatic experience that result in extreme PTSD.
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I have been "crippled" by painful memories, but have managed to grow emotionally anyway. Obviously not everyone is me, but I think it varies a lot from person to person. Some people might have PTSD to a point they feel "beyond repair," and then maybe in that case memory erasure would be worth considering. At best I'd have to say it's a case by case situation.
 
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