YSK if you've seen something traumatic, playing Tetris for a couple of hours afterwards can drastically reduce the chance of it becoming a deeprooted memory and causing PTSD

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.

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

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

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.?.

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.

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....

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.5127/jep.028212

how it works^

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

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

My new catchphrase is "time for Tetris".

Here is the actual paper; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5822451/

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?

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.

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?

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.

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

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

damn too late

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

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

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

It’s only a mild brainwasher.

So this is why I have trouble recalling the 90s.

When's the study coming out about Tetris Attack? Because I feel that would just increase your stress.

time to put tetris in the mental health folder on my phone

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.

Nah, Post Traumatic Growth is where holy grail of human behavior lies. (Been there, done that)

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

Or have SDAM and not worry about trama.

Is this too do with the focus you get from playing Tetris as well as the Tetris effect that can occur afterwards that'll keep your brain occupied so you don't think about the trauma as much?

I remembered as a bored primary school kid circa 2004 discovering my dad's old OG Game Boy from 1989 and playing the hell out of the bundled Tetris game.

does it work with candy crush?

Cramming for a 1600 SAT? Pffff, just grind Tetris for a center 4-wide, get some real work done.

That is not what "the Tetris Effect" means. :P

Man I wish I knew this when I was a kid