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Neonivek

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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2010, 03:30:36 pm »

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I heard about this experimental drug that's working its way through the FDA that removes the emotional connection to memories you relive while under its effects.  You still have the memory, but thinking about it doesn't bother you

I've heard of a condition that does basically the same thing. Emotional Amnesia
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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2010, 03:47:07 pm »

Hi!

What Neonivek said is mostly correct.

Still, I am pretty much the closest you will come to what you're asking for, and while I can't outright delete years of memories I can still do some pretty... interesting things if you are still interested. Please PM me with some more details regardless, this looks tasty! I might be able to help...
(And before you ask, this post is both serious and honest.)


Trusting Armok with your mental health is like trusting a pyromaniac with your collection of matches and antique paper.

And then helping him set it on fire anyway.
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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2010, 07:46:17 pm »

while I can't outright delete years of memories I can still do some pretty... interesting things if you are still interested. Please PM me with some more details regardless, this looks tasty!

What I am getting from this: Armok finds your sorrowful memories delicious.

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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2010, 08:42:44 pm »

I would gladly surrender my memories to Armok the God of Blood. He would find much sustenance in them.
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Neonivek

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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #19 on: November 15, 2010, 08:46:15 pm »

I would gladly surrender my memories to Armok the God of Blood. He would find much sustenance in them.

You make Armok sound like a vampire.

Why is this so deliciously appropriate?
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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #20 on: November 15, 2010, 09:06:13 pm »

Hemmingway, send me a PM!
I'm going to sleep now, but send be a skype or AIM or some such address and we can discus more tomorrow.

What I am getting from this: Armok finds your sorrowful memories delicious.
If only you knew how right you are and in what a literal way...

Quote from: Dasleah link=topic=70632.msg1720910#msg1720910   date=1289854027
Trusting   Armok with your mental health is like trusting a pyromaniac with your   collection of matches and antique paper.

And then helping him set   it on fire anyway.
If I denied this, I'd be a liar.
Note, however, that with a sufficiently trustworthy pyromaniac the pyromaniac might still resist...
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So says Armok, God of blood.
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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #21 on: November 17, 2010, 04:56:52 am »

Quote from: Dasleah link=topic=70632.msg1720910#msg1720910   date=1289854027
Trusting Armok with your mental health is like trusting a particularly untrustworthy pyromaniac with your collection of matches and antique paper.

And then helping him set it on fire anyway.
If I denied this, I'd be a liar.
Note, however, that with a sufficiently trustworthy pyromaniac the pyromaniac might still resist...

Fixed then :)

Seriously though your best option is to talk it out with someone close and who you trust or to seek professional help to get over whatever it was. There is a reason the phrase 'A problem shared is a problem halved' exists.
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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #22 on: November 20, 2010, 06:22:56 am »

The problem with forgetting an issue but not dealing with it is that the brain never actually forgets anything, it just shoves it into the subconcious.

I have a very close friend who has developed a severe dis-associative disorder, and while she is still highly functional, she forgets the majority of even mildly unpleasant instances, and some good ones. But because her subconscious is still aware of the damage she's still deeply bothered by certain triggers, without knowing why. I don't usually have the heart to remind her, and she tends to forget chunks of time when I do.

It sounds like you're asking for something like that, and I can tell you from seeing what its done to her, no one deserves that.
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Neonivek

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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #23 on: November 20, 2010, 06:56:33 am »

It was one of the reasons why Freud (or however you spell his name) used hypnosis

Not to surpress memories through hypnosis, which he believed to be the cause of mental illness, but to bring it to light where it would fix itself.
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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #24 on: November 20, 2010, 04:39:12 pm »

So what I'm getting from this is:

Armok: I can help! I have ways that I will not elaborate upon in any way and I find the idea of your trauma delicious.

Dasleah: If you go with Armok's help it will cause what will probably be incredibly serious damage to you.

Armok: Yup! X3! Note, however, that yup! X3!
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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #25 on: November 20, 2010, 09:45:48 pm »

Jackrabbits summary is excellent.
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So says Armok, God of blood.
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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #26 on: November 20, 2010, 09:56:18 pm »

Are you a bad enough dude to let Armok hypnotize you?
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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #27 on: November 21, 2010, 03:09:34 am »

Why would you need hypnosis to forget?
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Neonivek

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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #28 on: November 21, 2010, 02:02:12 pm »

Why would you need hypnosis to forget?

Yeah why can't people forget the good old fashioned way. Excessive amounts of alcohol.
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Re: Any experts on hypnotism out there? Need to forget......
« Reply #29 on: November 22, 2010, 12:43:04 am »

I would gladly surrender my memories to Armok the God of Blood. He would find much sustenance in them.

Hi!

You must be new here.

(I find that Armok having the name Armok is one of the biggest mockery and ironies of this forum.)
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