By blocking the effect of norepinephrine and disrupting memory reconsolidation, we could perhaps reverse this process. The clear implication of these studies is that emotional memory is not permanent after all.
Before you rush off into a panic about the dystopian possibility of mind control or memory deletion, it’s important to recognize that the procedure in Dr. Kindt’s study only weakened the subjects’ fear memory and avoidant behavior. Although the procedure is able to alter or perhaps delete the fear memory (something exposure therapy cannot do), it does nothing to the factual, or biographical, memory, which remains intact.
I have a hard time believing anything can cure fear. You just need to learn to channel it properly.
That is just my opinion, seeing as I am currently unmedicated.
fear is imagined…
created by the mind.
it is a misguided ’ protective ’ big brother.
even in dangerous situations there is no need to have ’ fear '.
take care
You may be right. But we know that these psychotherapies help most people who use them manage it a lot better… as well as pull the emotional plug out of the “stinking thinking” socket.
It kind of scares me thinking of a person without fear. That’s very likely unhealthy. Fear is needed, and large amounts of it can be destructive but dealt with with therapy.
Haha. I wish…
Alcohol makes me paranoid and more afraid than ever. Last time I was drunk, our truck broke down and I ran out into the middle of the road and just lied there screaming and crying, because I was so afraid. My sister had to drag me out of the road and it took her forever to get me to go back in the truck.
I haven’t been drunk since, and that was in 2013. Just an example of how fear can take over, without really a reason.
This would help so much with my PTSD! I would absolutely try it out! No more moments where we’re in the middle of sex and I suddenly curl up into a ball and cry! It would be magical!
Oh, absolutely. It’s when you’ve got excess fear of things that aren’t going to happen (alien invasion), well, that’s a problem. A person shouldn’t have to live in terror of delusions about improbable/impossible things.
can’t help it, you’re so likeable.