It seems that there is a chemical way to unlearn something. Suggested uses are to help people suffering from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorders). Read here. Sounds interesting.
Now I’m not clear how this can be targeted to certain fears but I suspect that many of us are already using this unconsciously. It must be built in to us.
The reason I say this is that when you think back you can remember being touched and touching in a sexual encounter so much that it arouses you and your body reacts. That is an experience you don’t want to forget. Now think about catching a sensitive part of your anatomy in your zip. It makes you cringe but you don’t feel the agony nor the pain that followed. Your body has effectively unlearned that from your memory. You just can’t feel it again and a good thing too.
Now not everyone suffers from PTSD. I wonder if the difference is actually in our minds? Someone is already unlearning it automatically and relegating it to the dim past yet others with a particular mindset either one they are born with or one they have learnt growing up actually cannot let go and forget it.
I wonder if it is something we can just give an injection for. I suspect PTSD is more for an individual mind to resolve and this treatment is more for other uses. Although at the moment I can only think of bad uses. For example where we erase memories. Such a thing shouldn’t really be something we are looking at doing especially the way our governments are starting to shape up.
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. — Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962)
Learning to unlearn
It seems that there is a chemical way to unlearn something. Suggested uses are to help people suffering from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorders). Read here. Sounds interesting.
Now I’m not clear how this can be targeted to certain fears but I suspect that many of us are already using this unconsciously. It must be built in to us.
The reason I say this is that when you think back you can remember being touched and touching in a sexual encounter so much that it arouses you and your body reacts. That is an experience you don’t want to forget. Now think about catching a sensitive part of your anatomy in your zip. It makes you cringe but you don’t feel the agony nor the pain that followed. Your body has effectively unlearned that from your memory. You just can’t feel it again and a good thing too.
Now not everyone suffers from PTSD. I wonder if the difference is actually in our minds? Someone is already unlearning it automatically and relegating it to the dim past yet others with a particular mindset either one they are born with or one they have learnt growing up actually cannot let go and forget it.
I wonder if it is something we can just give an injection for. I suspect PTSD is more for an individual mind to resolve and this treatment is more for other uses. Although at the moment I can only think of bad uses. For example where we erase memories. Such a thing shouldn’t really be something we are looking at doing especially the way our governments are starting to shape up.