A pill to erase traumas (poll)

[unluckysadness]

If you could erase your traumas with a magic pill, would you erase them ? My personal answer is : definitively yes because it's killing me and it ruined my life.

I read a book last year (from Peter Levine I think) who talked about it but I don't remember the percentage of people wanting to erase their traumas. I remember about only 30% but I'm not sure. I guess the answers will be higher here because it's a suicide forum but I'd like to have your opinions.

Thanks

EDIT : I want to add something important with my experience : I have several traumas (since my childhood), but I have a huge trauma due to a medical intervention in emergencies almost 4 years ago. It went to emergencies 3 times in only 12 days (it went badly because doctors didn't do their job correctly). But one thing is interesting : The 3rd intervention left me the biggest trauma, and since this day, my brain has almost "erased" my old traumas (from childhood for example). Bad memories are still here but I'm quite okay with them. So this is my personal conclusion : you can almost forget a trauma if you have a BIGGER one later... Okay it's shitty, but with this bad experience, I think that the brain REPLACES a trauma by another which is more traumatic.

 

[eternalpace]

No... Unfortunately, it would be a waste of a pill... Because the way my life goes, something traumatizing would happen relatively soon after taking it... and I'd be in the same situation all over again.

 

[Macedonian1987]

I don't know how to reply to this as I don't have any traumas. Yes, I've been bullied in elementary and high school, but not to the point that left me traumatized. I guess if I was traumatized I would have wanted to have a pill to erase all those bad memories away.

 

[Forever Sleep]

It's an interesting question. For me, some of what I suppose could be described as trauma are multiple bereavements. Some from very early childhood. I couldn't really erase them without erasing cherished, happy memories of the people I miss, so I think I would choose to keep them.

I maybe would choose to erase large chunks of childhood that contained intense (suspected narcissistic) abuse. That was when I developed ideation to begin with. I wonder if I would be suicidal now even if all that hadn't happened. It's hard to know. It doesn't affect me so directly now but, it definitely set me on the path. I'd have to make a note for myself though- to avoid this person at all costs.

That's the other 'benefit' I suppose of remembering- it teaches us what to try to avoid at least- in future. It would be hellish to stumble into all that again.

 

[Ligottian]

A magic pill to erase my life. Quick and painless.

 

[Anonymousa]

Yea definitely, get rid of all of it. Without it I could just be okay as a loner instead of this mess I am just is desperate to want to be with people to fill the void and that is a reliable coping mechanism as others aren't reliable so would rather get rid of the trauma such as my relationship break ups. Getting rid of the trauma school would be nice too so I don't have anymore school nightmares.

 

[rozeske]

 

[qewpie]

not sure how to answer this because I got suddenly and majorly sick and still am quite sick, and I would consider this a trauma. If I could erase my sickness I absolutely would, but if this magic pill can only affect the mental then it's useless

 

[LackOfDetermination]

No, I wouldn't erase a thing. Ever since I was 9 I've been obsessed with retaining every single memory, and although I've lost large chunks of my childhood and the past few years... No matter how painful, I still consider every part as a part of me, and the more I lose, the less i am/will be.

 

[TheCallOfTheStars]

If I could erase like half of my life I would because half of my life is nothing but trauma

 

[imontheloose]

I doubt that would do anything really. I was born with this brain in a horrific, cruel world; I have no reason to believe removing some events from my life would prevent the inevitable horror that awaited me all because of evolution's gravest blunder: sentience.

 

[ghost8811]

i alraedy have that pills!

 

[yzzzy]

I'd definitely do that. But I don't think that will fix my problems. The pain has been since the childhood. I was molested as a child by an close relative. Haven't told anyone in my family about it. Now I'm in early twenties. Had so much trauma. My father lost five years ago. I tried to sucide since like 3 years . Everytime I was prevented from doing that. I was also able to recover few times and did well achived things that I never thought I can. But again I'm in the same situation. Nothing has really fixed except I'm fixing myself . I'm in pain . I don't want to live. But I haven't found anyway to end my life. Can't tell the whole story but I really need make a decision now about whether to die or live (living seems impossible idk). I don't think anything can really fix my situation at this point. I will end my life at the earliest if it works for me in this situation.

 

[unluckysadness]

i alraedy have that pills!

You mean SN or something to CTB I guess ?

 

[darksouls]

no, because my traumas have made me the person I am, I hate myself and I am full of wrath, sadness and disappointment, but I know I will die someday and I hope that I will be released from my suffering and that my soul will find eternal peace