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."

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Re:Eternal Sunshine?

[glassjaw rocks]

"Other studies found that 51 percent of women fantasized about being forced to have sex, while a third imagined: "I'm a slave who must obey a man's every wish."

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Re:not really a good idea

[Hosiah]

Are you saying rape victims should be forced to endure PTSD symptoms for the rest of their lives - just because you think people should have traumatic experience to grow from?

I was already alarmed at this posting, but your question brought my concern into focus. Fine, let's say we do things your way. "Post-date-rape drugs", as they can be known, work like a morning-after pill so the rape victim suffers no emotional consequence whatsoever. They get accepted into our culture, become available over-the-counter. Some time passes. Pretty soon, some rapist in court gets off with the defense that they did nothing to their attacker that couldn't be fixed by popping a pill. Laws against rape begin to erode. Eventually, rape victims become younger and younger...it becomes a "normal" thing.

Is this a better world than the one we had before? That's what worries me.