This work perfectly for most of my lectures in Quantitative Methods in college.
When it came to the exam, I couldn’t recall a thing.
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Hahahaha. That proper made me laugh
Can confirm, I've been playing tetris for three hours and I've almost completely forgotten about the dead hooker in my trunk.
Huh, that's the kind of thing that would just make me start visualizing how many I could fit in there.
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My mum used to work with criminaly insane people in an asylym. I realize now why she frequently jacked my Gameboy to play Tetris.
Can I ask what role she did? I read a book last year called 'The Devil You Know - Tales of Forensic Psychiatry'. It was very illuminating and interesting, each chapter a different (anonymised) story of one of her patients. Especially her 'bike lock' theory of why some people can commit such horrific crimes.
'Bike lock' theory?
She posits that some people have a 'combination lock' which, when the right numbers all come up together, pushes them over the line into a horrific violent act.
EG if someone was beaten by their father as a child, go through some trauma as an adult, are under a lot of stress, then some guy in the street who looks a lot like their dad used to starts screaming at him because he bumped into him, then BLAM they're smashing his face in with a nearby brick before they understand what's happening.
Whoa shit 😳
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it's a lie perpetuated by Big Tetris!!
jk, good to know. I assume this should work similarly for any game that doesn't contain violent content and yet activates the brain.
I wonder if there's any research on that? It's been a while since I read the study but iirc there's something specific about Tetris that increases the effect, something to do with manipulating objects to fit into neat rows.
So maybe trying to fit the shopping in the back of a car would be as effective! Anyway I posted this hoping it would be of use to some of the people affected by the latest lemmy attack.
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I would imagine crossword puzzles or anything similar in that nature could also apply.
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yo... everyone is laughing cause its kind of funny but I had a really intense and traumatic childhood... and I also played a lot of tetris as a kid. Like more than 12 hours a day of it.
Is that seriously why my trauma didn't effect me like it would have with other people??
That's fucking nuts. Like what.?.
Sorry to hear about your childhood. Are you one of these superhumans I watch playing Tetris and thinking "how the FUCK can anyone react that quickly?!". I'm pleased to hear though that you found a way to not be traumatised!
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.5127/jep.028212
how it works^
Well, how it may work. It is fairly controversial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_and_reprocessing
These links appear to be about something possibly related but slightly different. These involve treating traumatic memories that already rooted themselves. The post above is about preventing the memories from being rooted in the first place. Sure, they could be related concepts and mechanisms, but they are different.
So you're saying if my parents had let me play video games, my childhood traumas would have been easier to deal with. Those f%*&ers....
Also, just an anecdote, but good music and puzzle games seems to help those of us who had PTSD form.
A couple of hours? That's a lot of fucking Tetris.
Filthy casual.
Have you played the new Tetris? I sunk quite a bit of time into that. It's gorgeous, really good music that syncs with your moves.
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What if Tetris is the source of my trauma?
Were you cursed by the Tetris God?
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Here is the actual paper; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5822451/
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Oh noo, I can still hear the 4bit music from the Gameboy classic speaker ...
... how? Where is it coming from? Why won't it stop? What is it trying to mask & protect me from?
How does that work if your parents continues to yell at you when are trying to play tetris to try and stop getting PTSD from their screaming?
VR Tetris.
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I remember a podcast on NPR a few years ago mentioning something similar. The psychologist that was on the show was discussing how doing something that does something that requires your full attention reduces anxiety. It’s interesting to see that this can also be applied to reduce PTSD.
Can confirm, not just with the game but similar activities eg: stacking those body parts into a nice cube really takes away from the stress of killing someone
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damn too late
lucky us Tetris wasn’t a thing back when Batman was a kid
It’s only a mild brainwashed.
https://openpathcollective.org/ provides a long list of therapists that work on an affordable, sliding scale. If you experience something traumatic, please seek support for your mental health
So this is why I have trouble recalling the 90s.
We just watch Keeping Up Appearances for half an hour. Nothing could be as traumatic as trying to drink tea from fine bone china with hand painted periwinkles
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Downside is, every time you play Tetris to prevent PTSD, it causes you to remember all the traumatic shit that ended up tucked away in the back of your brain from all those previous times you played Tetris to avoid PTSD.
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When's the study coming out about Tetris Attack? Because I feel that would just increase your stress.
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