#obviously 'just play' tertris isnt passing actual clinical trials because its not a clincal treatment. its a tip for self help and harm

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I just read this article and honestly it's kind of dumb. The author clearly has a strong opposing stance to the claims of the original post from the get go rather than a research mindset. The single claim of "Tetris in particular can cure ptsd!" Is obviously not scientifically probable in every case but the point of the variations of the Tetris tip and why it gets passed around online is that when you have just seen or visualized something you did not want to see (like an intrusive memory or thought) it's obvious that a distraction, especially a visually engaging one that reuses and reinforces the interneuronal clusters that conjured the first intrusive image in a certain combination, makes it less likely that the image which will most stick with you is the random intrusive one. The author of this article even admits that Tetris can have this effect but that it's the same as playing any game and like... That's exactly the point of the tip. If you have an intrusive thought, instead of treating it like an elephant in the room your mind keeps going back to bc you have to tell yourself not to think about it, treat it like an accidental scrape in your current mood that can be easily patched and filled by treating yourself well with something more engaging and actually interesting to you. Tetris is just the example used in some of these studies and which worked for the individual poster. Science is the study of physical reality, this article is completely pointless because it is debunking a claim about said physical reality that are being directly misinterpreted from an actually perfectly understandable metaphor.

The Tetris PTSD story is going around again so now I have to update y'all, it's been debunked, pop sci has lied to us again

www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/tetr...