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[–] [email protected] 213 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Hahahaha. That proper made me laugh

[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can confirm, I've been playing tetris for three hours and I've almost completely forgotten about the dead hooker in my trunk.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My mum used to work with criminaly insane people in an asylym. I realize now why she frequently jacked my Gameboy to play Tetris.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Whoa shit 😳

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.?.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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....

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It’s not that controversial within the psychological community. It is widely used and researched.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, just an anecdote, but good music and puzzle games seems to help those of us who had PTSD form.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

For me, in my deepest depressive state, I found stupid movies to be a really good tool for managing my symptoms. My go-tos were Ocean's 8 and Rampage.

There was just something about pointless entertainment that occupied my time well without eliciting emotional responses. (ie, emotional responses I was incapable of regulating)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if Tetris is the source of my trauma?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A couple of hours? That's a lot of fucking Tetris.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Filthy casual.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My new catchphrase is "time for Tetris".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Life in Philly be like ^

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me after watching family get brutally murdered in front of my very eyes:

hOlD uP gOtTa PlAy SoMe TeTrIs To PrEvEnT pTsD, mEnTaL hEaLtH aWaReNeSs BrO

On another note, does playing amogus with the boys increase the chances of it becoming PTSD?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I think if you play among us after experiencing extreme trauma, that really is kinda sus

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (11 children)

After reading this I thought there must be a nice and simple Tetris game in the play store. Boy was I wrong. I think some guy has a "block puzzle" empire and has just rereleased the same tetris clone game a hundred times. And official Tetris is a total abomination of unlocks and achievements.

Bummer.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There are three main Tetris games as far as playability goes.
Classic Tetris for NES where you play with your foot
Tetris effect where handling and graphics are decent
Tetr.io where speed is everything

Notable mentions
Tetris 99 - tetris for Nintendo switch
PuyoPuyo tetris - sometimes you play puyopuyo sometimes you play tetris

Everything else is basically irrelevant

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I don't know, chief; have you seen modern Tetris gameplay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ya8_GnzZn4

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

damn too late

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (11 children)

This would have been great to know 3 years ago... ahwell...

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

lucky us Tetris wasn’t a thing back when Batman was a kid

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