by Mak

Created on: July 23, 2011

If you can take sleeping pill as remedy for insomnia, there should be no reason for objecting in taking the pill to get rid of memories from trauma. Trauma could be more damaging to mental and physical health than insomnia. In fact the very effect of trauma itself can cause insomnia. 

The anti-trauma pill will act for both disorders. So there should no objection in taking anti-trauma pill as treatment for trauma, similar to any other medication, so long it does not have any serious side effects..

What is Trauma:

Trauma could result from severe emotional stress or physical injury. Specific description of trauma described in dictionary as a disordered psychic or behavioral state causing from a mental stress or physical injury. Trauma could be of varied nature, extent and depth, depending ones hurt in feelings. Coping  with trauma also varies with person to person according to their mental ability of analysing and acting accordingly.

Remedy for trauma:

Until now psychiatrist treat trauma by a method of combination which includes counselling as well as sedative types of medication to relax. An anti-trauma pill has not been invented yet, but it may be a reality in future.

Preference of medication:

In your life time you have to take many medications, right from headache to more serious ailments.  Some are more prone to illness and visits clinics more frequently. Some would resort to medication only after all natural tries have exhausted. It is well known that medication has its unwanted side effects.

Should you take a pill that could erase traumatic memories:

Trauma could be something serious then any other illness. In fact it could be very much damaging to mental health and  underlying reason for serious mental and physical illness. It might affect greatly one's working, social and family life.

So trauma can be classified as an illness arising from soem external events, on which the trauma sufferrer has no control. In other words the sufferer's mental structure is not able to tackle underlying issues causing the trauma, effectively and efficiently. Result is external indication in his or her behavior.

Trauma is not a pleasant experience and everyone would like to get rid of it, if he or she can't avoid it. So going to the point of argument here, that if a medicine could erase traumatic memories effectively without harming the person in any way, then what should be the reason for not taking that medicine? It would save time of of lengthy process of counseling, several visits to psychiatrist, medication, and off course resulting tension.

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