Amnesia Treatment in India

Vihaan Roy, a 28-year-old software engineer,...

Vihaan Roy, a 28-year-old software engineer, was involved in a severe car accident six months ago. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and, after emerging from a coma, was left with debilitating, intrusive memories of the crash, flashbacks, nightmares, and panic attacks that made daily life impossible. Despite extensive therapy and medication for PTSD, his symptoms remained treatment-resistant. His neurologist and psychiatrist jointly recommended a highly targeted, experimental amnesia procedure using focused electromagnetic pulses to disrupt the specific neural pathways encoding the traumatic memory, emphasizing it would only affect the memory of the event itself, not his general knowledge or identity. Vihaan was terrified but desperate for relief. The procedure, conducted under light sedation, was painless. In the weeks that followed, the visceral fear and intrusive recollections of the accident faded. He could remember the factual details of the event if prompted, but without the associated emotional terror. His emotional journey was one of profound relief mixed with a strange sense of loss; he was free from the prison of the memory, but he also felt a disconnect from a pivotal, albeit painful, part of his recent history. He is now back at work, rebuilding his life without the shadow of constant fear.