I recently heard about a radical new pill that is being used experimentally to treat trauma victims. It is called Propanolol and from what I can gather, the pill doesn't suppress the traumatic memory per se, but it does block the negative association that goes along with that memory. When rape victims who had used the drug were asked how they felt about it, they can accurately describe the event, but they just felt like it had happened to someone else. It is like they had heard the story on the news.
60 minutes did a story on it here.
This could virtually eliminate shell shock and post traumatic stress altogether.
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Great work.
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