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Interesting. There are good and bad uses that could come out of this pill. It would save thousands on therapy and could be effective, but is obviously so open to abuse.
 
bah, don't take away my memories, without the bad things in my life I wouldnt be able to write the way I do today.
 
How could a chemical be so selective and only erase those traumatic memories? If it has the ability to erase memory, I'd consider myself a few IQ points dumber after having taken it.
 
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It's not selective, it's meant to be taken after a extremely traumatic event like a car crash, war, or rape so that it lessens the psychological impact of the event.

Such people often develop post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, a problem first recognized in Vietnam War veterans. Only 14 percent to 24 percent of trauma victims experience long-term PTSD, but sufferers have flashbacks and physical symptoms that make them feel as if they are reliving the trauma years after it occurred.
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Yeah, I hear ya, Isaac. It just scares me to think that such a pill might turn me into a mental-patient zombie.
 
Isaac_Brody said:
It's not selective, it's meant to be taken after a extremely traumatic event like a car crash, war, or rape so that it lessens the psychological impact of the event.
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Actually, one part of the article mentioned what seems like a goal of selective elimination:

Some doctors have an even more ambitious goal: trying to cure PTSD. They are deliberately triggering very old bad memories and then giving the pill to deep-six them.
The first study to test this approach on 19 longtime PTSD sufferers has provided early encouraging results, Canadian and Harvard University researchers report.
"We figure we need to test about 10 more people until we've got solid evidence." said Alain Brunet, a psychologist at McGill University in Montreal who is leading the study.
 
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