Forgetting about bad memories Although people cannot automatically delete bad experiences that they went through, they can actually forget about horrible memories from the past because one shouldn’t spend their daily life thinking about their horrible experiences. The essay that led me to this topic is “Under Water” by Anne Fadiman the reason is because Anne tries to think about other things during a crisis such as happy and knowledgeable things, this cause my thoughts to expand. Some articles that I found are “Erasing bad memories” by Stacy Lu, “Can We Erase Bad Memories?” by Brian Wiltgen, “Selectively Deleting Memories” By Lauren Gravitz and “Erasing Memories” by Emily Singer. There are ways in which people can forget their bad memories and some ways are shown in articles and other texts. Some people look towards going to therapy and going to a psychologist to talk about their bad memories and experiences. …show more content…
She said that thanks to technology people won’t have to pass through a several perceptions, emotions and behavior. The way that technology helps is by letting neuroscientists and psychologists to “ explore the neural mechanisms by which memories are made and stored”. Every time that they research they end up finding useful information such as physiological interventions, electrical currents and well-timed pharmacology. These help “destabilize fearful memories” this can also be a pathway to finding something more