Stress can take on many forms, causing a downward spiral that can bring on many negative symptoms such as emotional overeating, insomnia, sleeping to much, sadness, anxiety and depression.
Stress can affect every part of the body and produce negative physical, mental and emotional symptoms. One biological affect of chronic stre... Read more
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You have good memories that can make you feel good to think about as well as bad memories that can make you feel bad. Everyone has these memories and everyone's memories affect how they live.
There is a definite connection between what our memories have stored and how we generally feel. If there is very strong emotion associated with a memory, a person may tend to feel that emotion in some way, constantly, below the surface. The strong emotion associated with memories can cause disorders such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. The emotions can also cause more normal life problems, such as anger, stress, sadness, or fear. While medication is commonly used for these issues, it only attempts to dampen the symptoms rather than treat the cause. The issue rarely goes away with this type of treatment. The key to long term help with these issues would appear to be the emotional association with the memory. What would happen if that association could be erased, reduced or even changed? There is a medication being researched called propranolol that acts as an "amnesia drug". It is being used to directly disrupt the connection between our memories and the emotions associated with them. This study, in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, talks about psychiatrists at McGill University and Harvard University using the amnesia drug to disrupt the memories of trauma victims. The drug reduces the emotional part of the memory while leaving the conscious part of the memory. With this process, people still have the memory, but the emotion is reduced or detached. The potential problems with this process, such as permanence or side effects, are not known. There are other ways to reduce and change the emotion connected to memories. Other processes that are well tested, well established and without side-effects. Specifically hypnosis. Proper hypnosis seems more effective for this process since, when you are in hypnosis, you are using the emotional portion of your mind. This is especially true with memories containing strong emotion from childhood. When experiencing memories from childhood will generally 'feel' the age you were when you created the memory. Before a hypnotist uses modern hypnosis methods with traumatic memories, they must be properly trained. With the proper training, this process is safe, rapid and reliable. Clients often notice a difference after one session. Working with issues with these methods are about updating perceptions, and beliefs. Not just in a conscious way, but also in a subconscious, feeling way.
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