Research Can Someone Answer Questions About Ptsd And Memory Loss?

[Ronin]

Is this for a Throw As Many Mentally Ill People Under The Bus As Possible challenge?

 

[Friday]

Throw As Many Mentally Ill People Under The Bus As Possible challenge?

Now that could be a great book! :sneaky: Something in the style of Terry Pratchet / Piers Anthony / Douglass Adams... Meets Stephen Colbert & John Stewart. Something so horribly offensive & ridiculous that it becomes pure comedy.

Hmmm... Opening scene... Queuing up at the Neurodiversity Clinic waiting to be assessed for which condition you'd be best suited for. A special police; Rounding up the rebels who refuse to queue. Rescue attempts by the rebels attempting to save loved ones making up one subset; Constant rearrangement of the line order (height, width, age, alphabetical... Who joins in for OCD tendencies), & other experiments. Secret passageways. (Just because. But then, I'm ADHD. ;)). Signs with Average Wait Times increasing the further one queues. Pits of vipers. Rabidly incorrect diagnosis. The entire line itself designed to drive people to the brink to figure out which way they diverge. If you weren't crazy before? We'll fix that! Clinic Slogan...

 

[theshadowoftheliving]

What makes PTSD what it is (and how devastating it is) is that encoded memories are NOT altered with time. Normal memories renders traumatic events more benign as time passes. PTSD memory means that the memories are encoded with such a visceral accuracy that every recall is physiologically the same as being back in the trauma.

 

[Meadowsweet]

... Constant rearrangement of the line order (height, width, age, alphabetical... Who joins in for OCD tendencies), & other experiments. Secret passageways. (Just because. But then, I'm ADHD. ;)). Signs with Average Wait Times increasing the further one queues. Pits of vipers. Rabidly incorrect diagnosis. The entire line itself designed to drive people to the brink to figure out which way they diverge. If you weren't crazy before? We'll fix that! Clinic Slogan...

Wow, you just described NHS mental health provision :p

 

[ghotiff]

Not that this was conscious or deliberate (other than I think my psyche protecting itself)....I had a childhood sexual abuse memory that I had always just believed this particular memory happened before my parents knew about the abuse. Recently, I recalled a detail of the school uniform I was wearing (it was relevant to the abuse), the recall of this uniform wasn't knew, but for the first time I connected to the fact that I had to have been older to have been in this uniform, so ....this abuse memory was after my parents knew about my abuser.

In this way I did re-order the memory, and facing the fact that my abuse went on for many more years than I had previously allowed myself to acknowledge was horrible to say the least.

I have no PTSD diagnosis (or any other diagnosis) by the way.

Hope that helps somehow.

 

[Ronin]

@FridayJones, thanks mate, I was whining for a week or so how among other blocks I'm having the writer one.... fixed.

 

[ground crew]

Maybe you could study borderline personality disorder. They have a shocking array if disorders and may be more suited to the highly troubled protagonist? you propose. My exe could be a good source.... I would suggest Kevlar if you meet in person....

 

[joeylittle]

The main character in my novel gets into a car accident that's his fault, and wants to make it so that he believes it was the other person's fault. But the amount of re sorting of memories he would have to do in his head is complicated (replacing memories, making certain memories happen later in his life, etc.). This is because the main character is a male with an eating disorder, and the reason why he got into the car accident is because he was hungry and unfocused while driving. His anorexic behaviors were fairly new, and so I want to go as far as to making him believe he didn't even develop an eating disorder until after the accident, to help him further dissociate himself from the blame.

Honestly, this sounds like the plot to Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, except you have a car crash instead of an anti-corporate activist organization, and you are giving your character an eating disorder, while the protagonist of Fight Club has a soulless life.

Anyway, if you're not familiar with it (the book or the film), you might check it out. It's completely impossible, the way that protagonist re-writes his own history - but, it's just on the right side of 'no plot holes, so maybe???'.

I don't think your story needs realism.

 

[Deleted member 28740]

because the main character is a male with an eating disorder, and the reason why he got into the car accident is because he was hungry and unfocused while driving. His anorexic behaviors were fairly new

So he was vomiting while driving due to a trigger flashback. Been there done that, the dog was real interested, no harm done except to the car interior. Clean up was not pleasant even with the dog trying to help : )).

 

[Deleted member 28740]

This post has me laughing, which I need. How about it was not an eating disorder, but a sexual disorder from viagra and needed to rear end anything?

 

[Anarchy]

@FridayJones ,
The book with a populationbeing subjected to universal and ridiculous psychiatric diagnoses, already exists:
DSM V

 

[Fed up]

Hi, there. I saw that researchers looking for information are allowed to post, so I hope this is close en...

I think it is in poor taste to request this kind of help from victims. Write about something you know about