I take it for PTSD to control the adrenaline rush that sends my heart into overdrive. To me, it works like an anti-anxiety pill for the body. It hasn't taken any memories away, it just helps control my body's response to them.

*Unlike the creepy device that erases undesirable recalls just like files on a computer in the recent film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, propranolol won't cause PTSD sufferers to forget their ghastly memories, "but it can take out the sting," says professor of psychiatry Roger K. Pitman.

There are a few more posts about this in the Drug Forum. READ MORE HERE

*http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/070467.html