Can You Erase Bad Memories?

What if you could delete specific memories?

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Further Reading--

The Forgetting Pill

Memory and Forgetting

Selectively Deleting Memories

[LPSWeirdCow]

If I could erase bad memories, I would be so much happier.

[jinglejanglers]

Am I the only one who remembers bad memories better than happy ones?

[CamboRamboMac]

I think I was given a pill to forget, but I can't remember.

[YumiYumiYumi]

edited because it was cringe

also would take it to forget spoilers

[will.a.benjamin]

This would be great for people with anxiety and depression who ruminate on bad memories. And imagine how it would help PTSD too.

[OllieWille]

I wanna forget all my favorite movies so I can see them again for the first time.

[jugemujugemugokonosurikire]

Bad memories have one good thing:
You will remember not to make the same mistake twice.

[sammysalmon]

I really wish I could erase all of the bad memories and keep the good ones. My life would be so much happier.

[hazo]

I can remember bad memories from years ago but not science facts for my test the next morning.. Thanks brain.

[nerd_of_worlds]

I wanna forget my whole existence because it's just one big depressing fail

[lololololokillmepls]

i dont wanna remember messed up things that i saw in the internet, even worse, things that started my depression and stuff like that. i want help ;(

[animatedkris]

I want to forget dirty stuff that my friend showed me

[miloyukino]

Can science please erase my bad memories. Every time I remember them I fall into deep depression and I can’t control it, I have mental breakdowns and really bad trust issues triggered by these memories. Sometimes I am able to forget about them and live normally for a short while, but then they start again. I am at a loss of what to do. Please. I need help.

[leonasnake]

Please erase my memories ;- ;
Even if I am forever changed... I'd rather forget...

[MarkHarrierTMusic]

I really wish there will be such technology that can erase bad memories available someday in the future.

[Techtastisch]

"Hey let's go and visit mom"
"What do you mean with she died months ago!?"

[EBProductions]

If a drug like that would reach the market it would be used by criminals to make victims forget what has been done to them most likely. o.o

[Hydrea]

I literally do nothing and my brain decides to being up the worst times of my life in a whole showreel for the next hour and i cant even do anything about it except cringe and go “yup that happened...”

[arthurmorgan]

Childhood trauma has destroyed me. I wish I could forget it all.

[Psychgo]

The semantic network model also explains how memories cues can trigger one memory activating associated memories. Hence, the more we can relate things together the more they're likely to be remembered. This also means that memories that have little amount of association to other memories are also more likely to be deleted or forgotten.