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So because the patient cannot recall the traumatic events, they're not thought to be experiencing that trauma, or taking lasting effect from it?
by DANmode 3y ago
So because the patient cannot recall the traumatic events, they're not thought to be experiencing that trauma, or taking lasting effect from it?
- cyberax 3y agoYep. That's also how dissociative sedation works. You don't remember being sedated, and you are not (psychologically) traumatized by medical procedures happening during it. I had it several times for minor oral surgeries, and it's great. And the modern ECT is also done under deep sedation.
- saurik 3y agoHow long after the event do you think it makes sense for this erasure to happen? Like, let's say that you are going to experience something absolutely traumatic but you know next week you won't remember it... is that also ok?
- cyberax 3y agoYes? You are basically describing every surgery.
- DANmode 3y agoYes, those are taken far too lightly as well.
- cykros 3y agoNot really though. Surgery typically uses anaesthesia that makes you not experience it in the first place, which is different than forgetting the trauma. I don't think the human memory is well understood enough to say for sure whether consciously forgetting something means that there aren't still effects of your body having experienced the trauma in the first place. The mind, it would seem, goes deeper than conscious recollection, and perhaps beyond the brain. Plenty of children abused before they can remember it still have exhibited signs of harm from the trauma.