[ConservativeMind]

Using Tetris when having a strong PTSD-causing memory can bring the average number of weekly flashbacks from 15 down to 1.

[ConservativeMind]

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[sopo]

kind of lines up with EMDR

[mikelets456]

I did treatment for my neurological disorder at the Carrick brain center in TX. It started as PTSD treatment then they discovered it helped neurological disorders. The place that does those now is Plasticity brain health in FL. They use dots on the screen, spinning you at a certain rpm, following your terms on a screen etc. It sounds weird but it worked with me and everyone I that was there getting treatment in our down time. It takes 5-28 days depending on the severity.

[dfwgator]

But isn’t Tetris Russian?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I suppose first-person shooter games are right out.

[WhattheDickens?]

Ping

[taxcontrol]

I wonder if the reduction is strong enough to warrant “classes” for soldiers when they return from a war zone. Could it be used as a preventative treatment???

[Ezekiel]

Interesting.

The treatment is based on what is known as mental rotation, which lies at the heart of Tetris. When you look at an object from one angle, you can imagine what it would look like if it were rotated to a different position and could be seen from a different angle.

Much applies for functioning and surviving in the regular world of perpetual constraint. It often turns out (no pun intended) that the 'impossible' becomes easy through a change of perspective.

[Nailbiter]

fl8

[RobertoinAL]

EMDR

[Chainmail]

Huh. I had really bad dreams for about a year after Vietnam and I couldn't be around any groups of people where I'd be crowded. I did not like the company of civilians, particularly guys of my generation who avoided military service. I self-medicated with whiskey, got in fistfights fairly often, and my first marriage ended quite quickly.

But - I had friends who had been over there with me and we were able to talk to each other every day (and drink together) and after three years out of the Corps, I was invited back in and made a career of it.

Being in the day-to-day company of my fellow Marines caused whatever symptoms I had to recede, the bad dreams ended, and eventually I quit drinking completely.

I still flinch when I hear an unexpected loud noise, 57 years later. It's kind of late for video games, I guess.