Hrisskar Flat-Foot @hrisskar@qoto.org

Fuck yeah you do

Beautiful shoot 😍

🧠 The emotion is executed by the autonomic nervous system in large part — not exclusively but in large part. And that in turn, the body-experience influences our emotions.

🧠 Under normal circumstances memories are made primarily about emotional events.
So, emotion is a great facilitator of memory formation.

🧠 So, every time we remember something, we actually make that memory again. We make the initial memory and then we reconsolidate that memory.

🧠 So, using just that information you can now understand why now some health professionals are treating post traumatic stress disorder by exposing individuals with #PTSD to a trigger in the presence of a beta blocker.

🧠 The beta blocker is preventing the sympathetic arousal, preventing the heart rate increase, and preventing the blood pressure increase.

🧠 So now, you've triggered a memory. But the person can't get all worked up about it — their body is unresponsive. We pharmacologically prevented that arousal.
And consequently now, when they remember it, they reconsolidate it without all that body memory.