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I wouldn’t do electroconvulsive therapy under any circumstances. I think that once my dad passes, I would be happy to have my memories of him erased. For now, those memories remind me to not get close to him ever again, because he is severely emotionally abusive, and I have PTSD from his episodes. Also my SA would feel so freeing to have erased. Those two events haunt my thoughts no matter how hard I try to get rid of them
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I believe it's an advanced "selective memory" And it would only delete the ones you want deleted.
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If it's legitimate, I'm just going to remove my childhood and the times I got kidnapped and my friendship with someone and every memory where I have done something horrible. No thank you to all of that, I will keep 10 percent of my memory and I will be very happy, thank you.
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Seems legit I also believe it's in progress. If electroconvulsive therapy exist what's to say something that can delete bad memories can't?
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It's a work in progress machine and I wouldn't expect it toll 2025-2040
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I hope I'm not coming across as too blunt by saying this, but I am extremely skeptical that such a selective way of inducing amnesia as you have described will be developed in the near future. I'm not saying that you're lying of course, but it seems inconceivable that something like that would become possible soon. The way that long-term memories are created and stored is not even fully understood at this point in time - any such treatment would be highly experimental and likely unsafe. If you don't mind my asking, where did you hear about this new form of therapy? I don't have real event OCD, so my opinion isn't really important or warranted here. If I were to give my thoughts, it does occur to me that even if you could erase a memory, that wouldn't necessary erase OCD - it would only remove a trigger. Theoretically you could keep erasing troublesome memories/triggers for the rest of your life as they are formed, which depending on your values, may be completely fine or undesirable. It reminds me a bit of Robert Nozick's "experience machine", albeit a bit different. I wouldn't want such a treatment, but then again, my values and experiences may differ from someone else's. Another given individual might feel thrilled at the thought of selective memory amnesia therapy, and they may have their own reasons for feeling that way.
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It actually already exist. A machine used to make PTSD sufferers forget bad memories. But the problem is it makes them forget good memories as well scientist are currently working on a way to make it only delete selective memories. It is basically a MRI that will use brain waves and brain chemicals to erase the memory. I can give links if you want?
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And I know it doesn't stop ocd but if you have no memories of stuff to have real event OCD about, you can't have real event OCD.
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I am sure that there are methods of inducing retrograde amnesia currently. Brain damage comes to mind, and you are correct that electroconvulsive therapy can cause amnesia as a side effect. This is possible because we roughly understand which areas of the brain are responsible for memory processing and storage, and trauma can disrupt normal functioning in those areas. What I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around is that we will be able to selectively delete memories soon. I'm dubious that our current understanding of memory is that well developed, but I could certainly be wrong. Feel free to shoot me the links, and I'll check them out. In regards to your second comment, I would imagine that if someone had real event OCD but erased all triggers/troublesome memories, they would still have OCD, in the same way I would still have OCD even if I developed global amnesia right now and forgot all my obsessions. OCD is a disorder; it exists even when there is nothing to trigger it. It doesn't vanish, so much as go into a dormant state until something does. Life has a lot of stressors, so it stands to reason that individuals with real event would eventually experience new unwelcome situations, which would lead to new memories that their subtype of OCD might latch onto, unless they engaged in a process of continual forgetting. That would be my guess. I'm not a psychologist, though, and my understanding of this subtype is rather rudimentary. Anyone reading this, feel free to correct me if I have this wrong.
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I don't think you're getting what I mean with the second part but, they will measure the brain waves during the thought process and try to get rid of the memory. Honestly you shouldn't be asking me I'm not the one making the machine you can take a quick search at it on google
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How? How can I achieve? How can I erase these "memories"? How can I get rid of this never ending pain?
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till*
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