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As a former PTSD sufferer, I am now trying to get my memories back because my memories were real events and my perception of them is what makes me human. Originally, the treatment was to make one forget, to re-socialized one back into society. But that just makes one into a robot. It was called "here and now" therapy, and I am now recovering from that fake so-called "therapy". People need their memories, they need to learn from the past to develop into who they are so they can plan for the future. There is knowledge and wisdom to be gained from strong memories and events. Otherwise, we are nothing more than passive viewers of our lives, as if watching a movie that we forget about when we leave the theater. We would be as shallow tourists being herded through our lives. That is no way to have a life.
Having memory removed won't redefine what is human. Free will is what defines us and if an individual wants to take a form of treatment for PTSD, depression, whatever, then let them. Being a sufferer of depression but also a mental health professional this sounds great in some cases. No one should determine if I need my memories or not. For some it is worth the risk. Leave the philosophy out and let the individual make the decision. We all have our own bottom lines. What are willing to do to be happy and secure?
If there really is a method to clear up a certain piece of memory from one's life, it is up to the individual to choose. People are not God, so do not judge others base on your own personal preference of how you think and deal with things. We are made differently and I would find it less painful to find some kind of way to erase a part of my life so that the rest of it can be free of nightmares and memories of the past. Not all people are the same. Not everyone can be stronger due to an event in their life. Some live through daily nightmare doses of it which are uncontrollable.
As a sufferer of depression and anxiety, I have been held back in so many life situations b/c of a past events and trauma. I don't feel more stronger b/c of it. I acutally feel quite the opposite. I don't like the fact that people want to prevent such a pill that would 'erase' the memories b/c the memories are a part of someone's personality. Well, my personailty is dark and there are more down days than up. I don't want that as part of who I am anymore. I know if I could stop those triggers from holding back my life, I would welcome that with open arms. Wow - a life without panic, crying, suspicion and picking fights? A life where I'm hopeful for the future? I would actually like who I am? It's possible so where to I sign up?
please email me any information on these pills as soon as possible!
Heh, This is actually a good thing...I agree that some things do make you stronger, but most things wont change who you are, just how you act around people/places...If possible I'd forget about a few things. One being a girl who lied to me, then broke up with me, and and so on...But even after all of that, I still think about her constantly...So yeah, some things you're better off forcing yourself to let go of...
- Vexx
My 15 year old experienced a terrible mugging, beating, attempted deviant sexual assault and has not been well since. I have been praying there were some kind of relief for his flashbacks, hypervigilance, emotional damage, fear, depression, shame and I hope this type of treatment is made available for him to know some peace and have his life back. I, his mother, am a child who comes from a home where violence, neglect, physical, emotional, and mental abuse was a daily occurence for two decades. It has made my life very difficult. I would like some relief from the nightmares, anxiety, low self esteem, and social difficulties so I could live a more peaceful life. I have my BS and Masters in Chemistry from the U of Penn, so I know intellectually I am able to function, but I'd love to improve the emotional quality of my life. No drug will make me forget what I went through, but maybe it can dull the emotional reaction associated with the trauma. Thanks for listening.
After viewing 20/20's program on this subject. I realized that this is the missing piece of the puzzle for me. After learning how to deal with the physical issues with stress and mastering them with medication I have not been able to disassociate my self from a particular pain/shame. This issue has blocked me from returning to myself which was care free. Now I feel if this medication can allow me to in a sense forgive and forget and move on well that is a no brain-er. I do not expect my personality to change. I expect to regain my sense of freedom that I've lost and to no longer be haunted by youth full indecision. I can assure you as one who is very strong willed this is the last piece of the puzzle. I have been living my life at about 80 to 85% propranolol I believe can allow me to be back at 100%. And I believe you'll be hearing my story in the future. Good luck to every one else considering this as a possible treatment.
I want information on any trials for these drugs asap. I've suffered with bipolar disorder and anxiety for years and it's driven me to suicidal lows. If these drugs can help block out some painful memories that keep infecting my mind, I don't give a damn what other consequences follow.
You can erase things from your mind, but getting them out of your heart? that's another story
@Jessica, your mind copes first so the body can heal and sooner or later the heart will follow and forget.
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I must disagree with the person below. The pill does not erase memory. I take it at one of the highest doses for blood pressure and migraine prevention. If the pill erased my memory, well, I just couldn't hold a job. Propranolol blocks adrenaline and therefore the strong emotional response is not recorded by the brain. According to the science and research, you still feel the strong emotions, but they are not recorded as such high emotional events and in theory, may prevent symptoms of PTSD. An interesting side note to this: I always take break ups horribly. My girlfriend cheated on me and broke up with me. At this time I was taking an 80mg dose of propranolol daily. Of course I felt really bad about the break up, I was devastated. However, I did not go into my usual bout of depression, drinking, anxiety, and hopelessness. That usually lasts two months. This time, after three weeks, I was completely fine with it, and I even talk with her every now and again, which is odd for me. I cannot say for certain that the propranolol had anything to do with it, but, after hearing of this research and looking more into it, I am realizing the effects this medication is having on me.
Oh sorry, I meant to cite the first post, Garrick S.
i think the pill was a good idea,,its for those who cannot surely forget of how realy bad things they dont deserve to happen...like me,,i feel so hopeless when my girlfriend break up with me,,her name is kimiko,..i love her so much,,but when i read your comments,,it gives me strenght to fight back,...thank you for reading..just dont lose hope,,all things have a good way to forget..
Facinating, a pill that can alter memory. There's a drug out there that is currently under work that can bring back memory but now one trying to be develpoed to erase memory.I dont 100% agree with it. Your mrmories are what make who you are and they reshape you. I guess on the other hand some peoples memory make them suicidal. Hopefully the making of such a pill doesn't come with too much risk.
Facinating, a pill that can alter memory. There's a drug out there that is currently under work that can bring back memory but now one trying to be develpoed to erase memory.I dont 100% agree with it. Your mrmories are what make who you are and they reshape you. I guess on the other hand some peoples memory make them suicidal. Hopefully the making of such a pill doesn't come with too much risk.
Facinating, a pill that can alter memory. There's a drug out there that is currently under work that can bring back memory but now one trying to be develpoed to erase memory.I dont 100% agree with it. Your mrmories are what make who you are and they reshape you. I guess on the other hand some peoples memory make them suicidal. Hopefully the making of such a pill doesn't come with too much risk.
Facinating, a pill that can alter memory. There's a drug out there that is currently under work that can bring back memory but now one trying to be develpoed to erase memory.I dont 100% agree with it. Your mrmories are what make who you are and they reshape you. I guess on the other hand some peoples memory make them suicidal. Hopefully the making of such a pill doesn't come with too much risk.
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And also I think there is stem cells as all of u know and the main characteristics, basis, of human cannot be deleted even if u erase your memory..In addition, if a person committed a crime and go to jail and had been there for a long time.And decided to never commiting crime and repeat the same mistake..Then if you erase his memories and experiences then his basis characteristics breaks him and force him to commit crime again..I assert that my idea refutes the idea that erasin' memory is beneficial..I have to remind that im not talking about taking pills that reduce the pain caused by bad memories
And also I think there is stem cells as all of u know and the main characteristics, basis, of human cannot be deleted even if u erase your memory..In addition, if a person committed a crime and go to jail and had been there for a long time.And decided to never commiting crime and repeat the same mistake..Then if you erase his memories and experiences then his basis characteristics breaks him and force him to commit crime again..I assert that my idea refutes the idea that erasin' memory is beneficial..I have to remind that im not talking about taking pills that reduce the pain caused by bad memories
And also I think there is stem cells as all of u know and the main characteristics, basis, of human cannot be deleted even if u erase your memory..In addition, if a person committed a crime and go to jail and had been there for a long time.And decided to never commiting crime and repeat the same mistake..Then if you erase his memories and experiences then his basis characteristics breaks him and force him to commit crime again..I assert that my idea refutes the idea that erasin' memory is beneficial..I have to remind that im not talking about taking pills that reduce the pain caused by bad memories
And also I think there is stem cells as all of u know and the main characteristics, basis, of human cannot be deleted even if u erase your memory..In addition, if a person committed a crime and go to jail and had been there for a long time.And decided to never commiting crime and repeat the same mistake..Then if you erase his memories and experiences then his basis characteristics breaks him and force him to commit crime again..I assert that my idea refutes the idea that erasin' memory is beneficial..I have to remind that im not talking about taking pills that reduce the pain caused by bad memories
And also I think there is stem cells as all of u know and the main characteristics, basis, of human cannot be deleted even if u erase your memory..In addition, if a person committed a crime and go to jail and had been there for a long time.And decided to never commiting crime and repeat the same mistake..Then if you erase his memories and experiences then his basis characteristics breaks him and force him to commit crime again..I assert that my idea refutes the idea that erasin' memory is beneficial..I have to remind that im not talking about taking pills that reduce the pain caused by bad memories
sorry for sending several times..My computer was frozen:) Yusuf from turkey--bilkent university
I think memories are personal to everyone and each one of us should decide which memories to keep or to delete. My desire is to erase someone coz it's emotionally draining me hence now I don't want to think about her anymore. I want to be happy. Thanks all for the earlier comments.
I suffer from depression that really make life a challange and everyday a battle. I want to live my life to the fullest. I want to erease a very bad memory that haunts me everyday...I just want some mental relief in my life. Please send me more information about erasing one's memory. Thank you!
Guys come on! The only reason you'd want to take these pills is because your life is messed up, but why not go to church instead. God works better that any stuipid manmade pill.
I am surprised to read about this article which originated in 2004 while here in the Netherlands children are being gang raped in pedophile sex party’s since the 80thies with memory altering drugs like GHB and afterwards Bètablockers. Here in the Netherlands if you have enough cash you can rape a 6 year old. You just need to find the right pimp in Arnhem pay him and you can rape a child of the age you desire. The child will be GHB drugged and afterwards injected with beta blockers to mess with its memory. When they do try to reveal the truth they are murdered in most cases.
I was one of those children that got raped on these pedophile party’s. I however have studied psychology myself to help myself. Many of these children commit suicide after a few years. They will never have access to normal human rights. I also do not get welfare; the police refuse to hear my story. I will put some lawyers to work on this.
How does this system work?
I will explain as I can clearly remember for I was gang raped several times. This practice continuous as of today. The Internet is the only way we children, victims of these extremely insane network of child abusers here in the Netherlands can tell the truth about how we get abused. I am not at all allowed to do so. For 14 years I was silenced because they would rape and mutilate my beloved Girlfriend. Now she is married and has children so now I feel free to tell the truth, she is warned about this and is safe. I must tell everybody the truth about the secret Dutch pedophile network because in many cases the children get murdered on these sex party or afterwards. These practices also the reason often dead babies are found in the Netherlands some child prostitutes get children and this would expose their practices. One family here in Cuijk got exposed of their child prostitution practices because their 13 year old daughter got pregnant.
The children in the age 6-12 years old are brought to a certain remote location as you have many here in de south of the Netherlands. These are brothels but the children are told to go to a little party. The children get soda drinks spiked with XTC and GHB. Then the adults come in to the party and everybody is naked. Children simply have no clue what sex is after all. When the children are drugged and start to show that they are drugged the adults will have sex with them. Off course getting anal raped hurts like hell especially if you are 6 years old. In most cases as also me I thought for years that I simply have very strange dreams with lots of naked people.
This party gets raided by the police and then the pedophiles are arrested but not for real. We the children are then picked up by police officers we would get injections and were brought home and are put to sleep. The next day we would not have a clue wat really happened. I got very sick with the age of 7 because the XTC degraded my health and I got allergic and got a bad case of astma /bronchitis I probably got the infection from the sex party.
Often afterwards an ‘accident’ would happen with me. I have had about 6 severe head trauma’s and I have second degree burns on my legs. I can not at all remember how this happened. But for instance my aunt would kick me of the stairs which once happened when I was about 6 years.
I was supposed to get murdered when I was 12 years old at the ‘camping the messemaker’. But the owner accidently witnessed the attempt to kill me at in the bushes there and stopped them. I since then knew exactly in how much trouble I am but acted as nothing was the matter so I could reveal the truth in the future. Unfortunately this man has been murdered in 2004 so he will not be able to tell about this.
This secret network of rich and powerful child prostitution families really needs to get exposed. But off course my family will simply state that I have psychic problems. Believe me I am as sane as can be. They have simply made the mistake to fail to kill me and I am very intelligent and determent to reveal everything. For years I have acted as if I was completely unaware about all this so they would not attack me. Once I start to tell what these people do with children they would certainly murder me. The ones that are truly insane are the people that pimp their children to rich pedophiles. To my opinion these people are sexually disturbed psychopaths.
So this memory erasing theory is nothing new children’s brains are erased with memory altering drugs since at least the early 80thies in the Netherlands. But we can after a while clearly remember what has happened. I have heard of a case were a girl had used MDMA but went insane and she got a lethal injection in a psychiatric clinic and died. What I know is this: MDMA has properties that make you again clearly remember what they have done to you. I know because I have used MDMA for regression. You can at best remember what happened when your brain is in the same condition when it happened. I now know that I had not forgotten anything I simply thought these memories were bad dreams. So it seems I remember very clearly. This girl suddenly clearly remembered to be raped and went mad. We got gang raped with MDMA in our system so we will again clearly remember when we have again MDMA in our brains. I have only used MDMA a few times to get a clear recollection. Over the years my polish family have had many poor Polish children over in the Netherlands for a so called holiday in the rich west. Practically always these girls would get raped.
In 2003 I was working in Germany and I got exposed on the internet. I lost my job because everybody could see on the internet that as a 11year old I had sex with adult men. These Polaroid pictures back then triggered my memories and I went sick. I am so lucky that my beloved wife was actually a doctor in Neuro-psychology and she helped me a great deal. So now I can remember everything I can tell you the truth and I feel OK.. I am not even depressed anymore because I am proud. I have overcome their brainwash I have overcome fear and now I can explain the upperworld how our Dutch underworld operates and that many children from the former communistic countries are systematically abused as of today. And these hypocritical Dutch politician and human rights activists are complaining about human rights in China for instance while right here in the Benelux lots of children are imprisoned and raped day in day out and often murdered afterwards for big cash!
The true specialists of memory erasing are these child prostitution pimps they have optimized their child raping practices with razorsharp precision. If you want to learn how to erase memory for as much as possible have a chat with them.
Walter, your story is just horribly shocking and violent, to say the least. People are suffering and being abused all over the world, everyday, and here I am, feeling sorry for myself, and looking into erasing the memories of my lost love. It really doesn't matter if I am depressed for the rest of my life... it is nothing compared to the pain millions are going through. I am glad to hear that you found happiness and that you are okay now. Maybe, there is hope for everyone out there.

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