Hey Losses,

I think I can now answer many of both our questions. I spoke with Dr Roerich last night, and he enlightened me to more what this is about, and that this treatment is actually quite beneficial not for overall symptoms, but immediate relief, opposed to popping an SSRI which does nothing immediately, because they work on long term exposure to the body, not short term.

Why they have decided to use propranolol is to help people with their panic and anxiety attacks as such, not actually use it for the treatment of anxiety itself. The way it was explained, and I can actually see this as beneficial in this light opposed to using it permanently to suppress memories, is that when one has an axiety attack the heart beats faster, thus anxiety increases, etc etc... and where the use of propranolol comes in, is immediate relief past anxiety / panic attacks to slow the heart and provide a calming effect. I take back some of my original statement, and can see this could have scope, especially when those are running around with uncontrolled PTSD and having panic attacks just trying to get food or the like. One of these will slow the heart, slow the immediate stress, thus the panic resides very rapidly.

But yes, I do hold as per you do, in that the use of this as a permanent medication is very unsuitable, because people are going to deal with nothing, thus rely on drugs to help them when they actually won't need them, or very minimal use of them, during their life once trauma is dealt with head on and understood.

My good mate Dr Roerich explained this too me, and I see some light on this, and he is also no avid supporter of prescription medication, though can see that this could have some immediate relief for those who suffer frequent panic attacks at a large scale for temporary relief until trauma is dealt with.

This is very interesting losses, and thank you for bringing this up, because I have learnt some new things about this now, having to investigate more and then speak with trauma experts about it for more detailed synopsis.