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Trauma Pill Might Help Ease Emotional Pain
FrenchyinOntario writes "Canada's Globe & Mail is reporting that scientists are currently testing a 'trauma pill' that might help the victims of rape, the battlefield and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) forget or perhaps simply never store the memories of what happened to them the way they are stored normally immediately after the traumatic event, when the brain overloads itself with stress hormones. It's theorized that the pills could eventually be handed out to victims of Katrina-like disasters as well as returning war veterans. Critics wonder what kind of an effect it would have on a victim not to work through the pain like people have traditionally done."
...contrary to the popular "deal with" or "confront" psychology of dealing with tragedy the most helpful mindset is actually to accept and move on. It is actually well documented that in dealing with disaster/death/tragedy it is best to acknowledge that it happened and the accept it and move on. This is well detailed in the book The Road To Malpsychia. Perhaps this pill will truly help. If you choose to take it you can save yourself years of trauma. While it sounds sinister, it may prove to be better than years of dysfuntions or worse suicidal depression etc. Who knows? I am willing to see how this pans out, although I am skeptical this will ever be handed out with rescue blankets by the government. Perhaps as an alternative perscription from a liscences psychiatrist, but not as a mass amnesiac.