A member asked:

Is it possible to make you forgot about something or is it impossible to do?

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Dr. Daniel Ziegler answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

While we can forget an unpleasant experience or piece of information, it's not healthy. This is the mechanism that explains post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). After a horrible experience, the brain can suppress certain details or even substitute a false detail as a defense against re-experiencing the memory. The goal of therapy for PTSD is to retrieve the true memory and process it normally.

Answered 5/21/2022

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