Reminder that if you see disturbing or traumatic images, playing Tetris as soon as possible afterwards can help the brain cleanse itself, and lessen the impacts of it longer term.
No, I'm not kidding. And no one knows how or why it works. But it DOES work, and I encourage you to remember it.
No, I'm not kidding. And no one knows how or why it works. But it DOES work, and I encourage you to remember it.
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More seriously, this has links with EMDR and how treatment soon after trauma prevents PTSD. If it helps, it won't become associated - besides as a coping skill - bc you won't be as heavily impacted in the first place.
https://t.co/HojJtSKnzK
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jBwthW9M8ZY&pp=ygUdcG9zaXRpdmUgc3RhdHVzIGVmZmVjdCB0ZXRyaXM%3D
I manage to do that by not using Xitter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/30/can-playing-tetris-ease-our-minds-after-a-trauma-a-study-suggest-it-can/
I imagine other games that reach that could work
link that
https://bsky.app/profile/augvision.bsky.social/post/3kbomkb5tye2o
what about juggling?
do you have any information about this?
https://www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/tetris-trauma-viral-twitter-thread-master-class-misleading-psych-research/
I asked Google's AI Bard whether this could generally be true https://g.co/bard/share/fd8067c3cf46
am the one
who arranges the blocks
to protect
my psyche
from
this
trau-
ma 🎶
He describe a few mechanisms that make it addictive. One in particular, the human need to create order from disorder, rings the bell here.
Another: handling unfinished actions that spawn endlessly. Also relevant.
The participants who played reported fewer flashbacks
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7828932/
https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/tetris-used-to-prevent-post-traumatic-stress-symptoms
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tetris-shown-to-lessen-ptsd-and-flashbacks/
Un truc qui marche mieux encore c'est le Bubble shooter : le mouvement des yeux est dans toutes les directions.