Can drugs break the chemical chain of memory? Should they?

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Wow, a powerful question...

Dana;

Excellent question. A very thought-provoking question indeed.

First, allow me to tell you a bit about myself and then I'll go from there. I suffered a nearly fatal motorcycle accident where I was left for dead. A hit and run over a decade ago. I suffered from the loss of long term memory loss. There are still parts of my life, the missing years that I may not ever get back. So I can relate to this article a bit in my odd way.

I found out that I was married, then a couple of days later, I was widowed from the marriage, she died in a serious car accident. I at the time just found out I was once married and the thought I wasn't alone was overwhelming, but when I asked why she isn't here next to me in ICU, my relatives, those at the time, I didn't know by the way, told me that she died.

All this sucked miserably so here I go reliving the pain and anguish as thoughts and images came back to me.

Those dark pains did come a revisit me. I can tell you that the second time around was just as horrible to embrace.

Having said this, what would happen if the so-called addict was cured by this sort of medical treatment and then years later, subconsciously they suffer from the addiction and not knowing why?

Then they do get these "pictures" of their former addiction?

The human brain is still, for the most part, a mystery.

Rarely for myself does my relatives tell me things that bring up these lost memories. Smells, pictures, and music does way more to uncover. I can only imagine this may happen with the addict, right?

Maybe, who's to say for sure, I mean, I am going with my own experience. As I found out with my memory loss and the ability of some of these events do surface, I have found myself greiving and the reconciliation processes all over again, if you would.

To quote a person, "I need my pain, it makes me who I am." I have to agree with this, and travelling in this life, one can't help but to get banged up and scraped along the way.

But as to help with the addiction of an addict, I think more studies of corse must be underway -- The mind is a terrible mystery and what would be the effects would be if the person realizes the pains of his addiction and relives them in mind or body?

Would I personally undergo such a thing after what happened to me and my experience? No, I think not -- I'll walk the path through the rehabilitation processes.

However, if, and only for me, if there's a way to block only the addicting processes, without loss of the memory thereof, I would be all for that.

Thanks Dana for such a complelling thought-provoking article.

Posted by: Kromaethius   Posted on: 08/15/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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