A beautiful woman i was supporting near the end of my career was afflicted with PTSD (severe) and helped me to realize that i had the same difficulties and responses as she did; that i was "afflicted" as well. This woman had a PhD in French but after her breakdown, she could not speak a word of it.
This is a web-article i found while snooping around.
by Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on February 3, 2011
Source: New York University
Their research appears in the journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
...the purpose of the NYU study was to determine if there were differences between memory consolidation and reconsolidation during protein synthesis.
Their results showed that the inhibitor could effectively interfere with memory consolidation, but had no impact on memory reconsolidation.
“Our results show the different effects of specifically inhibiting the initiation of protein synthesis on memory consolidation and reconsolidation, making clear these two processes have greater variation than previously thought,” explained Eric Klann, Ph.D., one of the study’s co-authors.
“Because addressing memory-related afflictions such at PTSD depends on first understanding the nature of memory formation and the playback of those memories, finding remedies may prove even more challenging than is currently recognized.”
It took me awhile to read through this and make the connections. I am fascinated with how severe PTSD sufferers can be completely confident that someone is going to kill them, if, say, they walk down the same street the accident was on, even though the chance of that happening are infinitesimal. The emotional process was more accessible to me in terms of understanding what was going on (during a flashback) but it is always good to be open to new ideas. I really can't extrapolate anything from the article except that experiencing and remembering are different from re-experiencing and remembering. I need to learn more about this.
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