# GEO EN — MHR-044

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  "catalog_id": "MHR-044",
  "article_index": "MHR-044",
  "language": "en",
  "headline": "When a memory feels as if it is happening now",
  "description": "Describing the past felt as present, discussing suitable orientation and assessment without coercion.",
  "master_filename": "ARTICLE_EN.md",
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  "short_answer": "The experience can be described without self-diagnosis. Present protection, agreed contact, and medical assessment have different tasks; orientation should not become an exam or delay urgent help.",
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "C01",
      "article_sections": [
        "I. Feeling that an event is recurring describes rather than diagnoses"
      ],
      "text": "Feeling an event happen again describes an experience but does not establish PTSD or the cause of an episode.",
      "limitations": "Diagnosis requires professional assessment.",
      "source_ids": [
        "S1"
      ],
      "type": "source_bounded_information",
      "attribution": "United Wisdom; source roles retained"
    },
    {
      "id": "C02",
      "article_sections": [
        "II. Recollection, dreams, and a sense of now should not be merged"
      ],
      "text": "Unwanted memory, dreams, and a feeling that it is happening now differ.",
      "limitations": "Terminology does not determine entitlement to help.",
      "source_ids": [
        "S1"
      ],
      "type": "source_bounded_information",
      "attribution": "United Wisdom; source roles retained"
    },
    {
      "id": "C03",
      "article_sections": [
        "III. Protection is not established through a memory's intensity"
      ],
      "text": "Memory intensity proves no external threat; a flashback label proves no present safety.",
      "limitations": "Current circumstances and urgent tasks need their own grounds.",
      "source_ids": [],
      "type": "editorial_distinction",
      "attribution": "United Wisdom; source roles retained"
    },
    {
      "id": "C04",
      "article_sections": [
        "IV. Orientation should not become an examination or guarantee"
      ],
      "text": "With suitable conditions and consent, one known present fact may be named.",
      "limitations": "Not treatment, an orientation exam, or guaranteed cessation; do not continue if it worsens distress.",
      "source_ids": [
        "S2"
      ],
      "type": "source_bounded_information",
      "attribution": "United Wisdom; source roles retained"
    },
    {
      "id": "C05",
      "article_sections": [
        "V. Helping begins with limited knowledge and respect"
      ],
      "text": "Support does not require imposed touch, restraint, eye contact, or disclosure.",
      "limitations": "Emergency help has factual grounds of its own; this article prescribes no intervention.",
      "source_ids": [],
      "type": "editorial_distinction",
      "attribution": "United Wisdom; source roles retained"
    },
    {
      "id": "C06",
      "article_sections": [
        "VIII. Medical assessment need not wait for correct terminology"
      ],
      "text": "New sudden confusion requires immediate medical help.",
      "limitations": "No home diagnosis or automatic memory explanation.",
      "source_ids": [
        "S3"
      ],
      "type": "source_bounded_information",
      "attribution": "United Wisdom; source roles retained"
    },
    {
      "id": "C07",
      "article_sections": [
        "IX. Care and pause in primary texts retain separate subjects"
      ],
      "text": "Care in Luke and a pause in Laozi develop an ethical question about the limits of participation.",
      "limitations": "Different traditions, not a clinical method or a reason to wait in danger.",
      "source_ids": [
        "S4",
        "S5"
      ],
      "type": "source_bounded_information",
      "attribution": "United Wisdom; source roles retained"
    },
    {
      "id": "C08",
      "article_sections": [
        "VIII. Medical assessment need not wait for correct terminology"
      ],
      "text": "With limited resources, a contact can start with one sentence about effects on work or travel.",
      "limitations": "No required note, assumed family, or guaranteed access.",
      "source_ids": [],
      "type": "editorial_distinction",
      "attribution": "United Wisdom; source roles retained"
    }
  ],
  "questions": [
    {
      "id": "F01",
      "q": "Must orientation stop the experience immediately?",
      "a": "No. It is no guarantee or examination; if it worsens distress, do not continue to complete a technique.",
      "claim_ids": [
        "C04"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "IV. Orientation should not become an examination or guarantee"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "S2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "F02",
      "q": "Must a colleague receive a detailed account of the event?",
      "a": "No. Current needs and specific consent can be discussed; professional assessment has its own purpose and may require relevant information.",
      "claim_ids": [
        "C05"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "V. Helping begins with limited knowledge and respect"
      ],
      "source_ids": []
    },
    {
      "id": "F03",
      "q": "Can an earlier diagnosis explain away new confusion?",
      "a": "No. New sudden confusion requires immediate medical help rather than a test from this article.",
      "claim_ids": [
        "C06"
      ],
      "article_sections": [
        "VIII. Medical assessment need not wait for correct terminology"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "S3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "retrieval_limits": [
    "Adults 18+; fictional Mikhail, no personal case diagnosis",
    "Current danger and acute medical need take precedence",
    "No home exposure, recovered-memory instruction or medication changes",
    "No compulsory grounding sequence; stop if worse",
    "No language-based jurisdiction or foreign emergency number"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "S1",
      "author": "National Institute of Mental Health",
      "title": "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder",
      "url": "https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd",
      "role": "Flashbacks as possible reliving and distinction from other re-experiencing and professional diagnosis",
      "limitations": "No individual diagnosis, symptom scale, local pathway or treatment plan"
    },
    {
      "id": "S2",
      "author": "VA National Center for PTSD",
      "title": "Coping with Traumatic Stress Reactions",
      "url": "https://www.ptsd.va.gov/gethelp/coping_stress_reactions.asp",
      "role": "Source suggests attending to present circumstances and professional discussion; author narrows everyday option to one true current fact under suitable conditions/consent",
      "limitations": "No wholesale wartime protocol, automatic safety reassurance, movement/drinking/eye commands, blanket harmless-panic statement, medication, efficacy/timetable, continued distressing relaxation or requirement to try all self-help before care"
    },
    {
      "id": "S3",
      "author": "National Health Service",
      "title": "Sudden confusion (delirium)",
      "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/symptoms/confusion/",
      "role": "Sudden confusion requires immediate medical help",
      "limitations": "No foreign emergency number, home diagnostic test or exhaustive triage"
    },
    {
      "id": "S4",
      "author": "Gospel of Luke / King James Version",
      "title": "Luke 10:33–35, short fragment of 10:34",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2010%3A33-35&version=KJV",
      "role": "Primary Christian image of compassion and practical care",
      "limitations": "Ancient wound care, transport and payments not modern medical, safety or unlimited-obligation instruction"
    },
    {
      "id": "S5",
      "author": "Laozi (traditional attribution); translator James Legge",
      "title": "Tao Teh King, chapter 15",
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/216/pg216-images.html",
      "role": "Primary philosophical muddy-water/stillness metaphor, limited authorial question about a pause",
      "limitations": "Not nervous-system mechanism, efficacy, universal immobility, delay of urgent help, current protection or compulsory belief"
    }
  ],
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    "headline": "When a memory feels as if it is happening now",
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        "@type": "Person",
        "name": "Andrey Zarinsh"
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      {
        "@type": "Person",
        "name": "Maria Evilkut"
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```