Psycho-Babble Medication Thread 7025

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Drugs used to aid in memory loss

Posted by Patrick on June 3, 1999, at 17:31:57

My wife is suffering from a horrible experience that she desperately needs to forget. This experience is hindering her treatment for depression. She is looking to find a drug that would aid in lonngterm memory loss so that eventually this horror can come to an end. Please reply if possible I need some help P.Sibley

 

Post traumatic stress disorder

Posted by George O. on June 3, 1999, at 22:19:35

In reply to Drugs used to aid in memory loss, posted by Patrick on June 3, 1999, at 17:31:57

> My wife is suffering from a horrible experience that she desperately needs to forget. This experience is hindering her treatment for depression. She is looking to find a drug that would aid in lonngterm memory loss so that eventually this horror can come to an end. Please reply if possible I need some help P.Sibley

I've read that naltrexone can be helpfull in cases of post traumatic stress disorder, hopehully you'll get some responses from those who've used it for that purpose. George

 

Re: Drugs used to aid in memory loss

Posted by saintjames on June 3, 1999, at 23:03:55

In reply to Drugs used to aid in memory loss, posted by Patrick on June 3, 1999, at 17:31:57

> My wife is suffering from a horrible experience that she desperately needs to forget. This experience is hindering her treatment for depression. She is looking to find a drug that would aid in lonngterm memory loss so that eventually this horror can come to an end. Please reply if possible I need some help P.Sibley

James here....

She need to deal with it not forget it ! Even if she could forget the event probably has ingrained
itself in her personality so forgetting it will not help. Dealing with it will. Thearpy will help.

james

 

Re: Drugs used to aid in memory loss

Posted by Blaze on June 11, 1999, at 13:00:52

In reply to Re: Drugs used to aid in memory loss, posted by saintjames on June 3, 1999, at 23:03:55

Oh Patrick! James is sooo correct. As a child
I experienced several traumatic events (some that
went on for years). I buried all these things deep
while growing up and anticipated a promising future
(as a veterinarian). Then by my last year in high
school, I began what has now become almost 30 years
(I'm 45) of failing at school, relationships, etc.; and
alcoholism and self medicating (to help forget?),
self-hating, etc etc, you name it.

Two years ago I began seeing a great shrink.
I was diagnosed with ADD and finally finished school
with the help of medication. Yet it was only 6 months
ago that I finally told him about some underlying
depression, for which I am taking Prozac. The kicker
is that I STILL am not at the place where I'm ready to
talk about this stuff. But he's not fooled - each
session now I notice that he keeps asking me what else
is on my mind. So it's just a matter of time.

Sorry this is so long but I am positive that if I
had faced this way back, I would be much happier
now. I pray for your wife and you - don't give up
on her! Like the Queen song: both of you will be
Champions of the World!

 

Re: Drugs used to aid in memory loss

Posted by alan on June 17, 1999, at 2:23:54

In reply to Re: Drugs used to aid in memory loss, posted by saintjames on June 3, 1999, at 23:03:55

> > My wife is suffering from a horrible experience that she desperately needs to forget. This experience is hindering her treatment for depression. She is looking to find a drug that would aid in lonngterm memory loss so that eventually this horror can come to an end. Please reply if possible I need some help P.Sibley
>
> James here....
>
> She need to deal with it not forget it ! Even if she could forget the event probably has ingrained
> itself in her personality so forgetting it will not help. Dealing with it will. Thearpy will help.
>
> james


I dont want to start any battles, so let us just say that I am not aware of any reason to believe that one cannot relieve present psychic pain without dredging up memories of past traumas.It may be the case that while past traumas do cause psychological problems, they do so by doing actual brain damage and/or setting up conditioned responses which can be extinguished without any process of "dealing" with dredging up memory. I think a lot of this way of thinking derives from Freud (Breuer, Charcot, etc.), who at least had the intellectual integrity to try to develop a full theoretical explanation of how and why; but the approach now seems barren. (Grand theories are never proven wrong; they just peter out) 'Dealing with" therpies may benefit patients for reasons that have nothing to do with bringing up and dealing with traumatic memories. How DO you deal with such memories? As I said, Freud had an answer, but its part of a nearly dead theory; yet much of the spirit of that dead theory lives on. Wwll, all I really want to claim is don't feel that you MUST go thru some memory dealing. Drugs, CBT, support may well be enough. As for forgetting medication, I wish I could find some for me!

 

Alternative means I found effective

Posted by Kate on June 23, 1999, at 4:02:25

In reply to Post traumatic stress disorder, posted by George O. on June 3, 1999, at 22:19:35

I suffered from PSTD, and after minimal counselling and no drugs, finally got over it. For me, my doctor recognised assertiveness problems and advised some self-help books, which I found helped a lot to recognise what I can do to get it out. Time does heal, doesn't help in the meanwhile. I still have problems with anxiety and have found between bouts with Xanax, Meditation, Drink, Sports and Assertiveness practice all have helped. Rather than consider drugs alone, why not try some sports and meditation - they are not the be all end all, but I think in retrospect there was a lot of positive benefits for me getting over it on my own (although it took say 10 months). Meditation and sports are not the be all end all but I use them as the first and most effective resort now. I used TM (Transcandental Meditation, excuse spelling) but there are many forms, swimming can be one, watching the line at the bottom of the pool, all help to get your mind of the memory and get beyond it


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