Story of Prazosin Use in PTSD
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Think back to your childhood and recall some of your strongest memories. Most are emotional in nature. Notice, however, that while the memories remain vivid, they no longer carry the same emotional intensity.
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The theory is that REM-sleep dreaming does the work of palliative dissolving of emotion from experience. We can therefore learn and usefully recall salient life events without being crippled by the emotional baggage that those painful experiences originally carried.
