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roguetoo:

thanos-the-dad-titan:

cryptic-ink:

psychoticallytrans:

feelthemonster:

I’m not a psychology researcher, but my guess would be that the nature of it being a time-limited puzzle game where you have to juggle multiple factors means that your short-term memory gets filled and the traumatic images are “dumped” in favor of remembering how many times to rotate the L piece. “As soon as possible” is probably because the sooner you do it, the less likely it is to become part of your long-term memory.

If that is true, then other time-limited activities where you have to remember and plan in a tight time frame may serve a similar purpose.

This can have an effect hours after the traumatic event happens too!All participants were treated within about 6 hours and played for a total of 20 minutes of Tetris (with at least one play time of 10 minutes straight).

Here are the links given in the screenshot:

Trauma, treatment and Tetris: video gaming increases hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder

Tetris used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms — Department of Psychiatry

Here is the paper that the second link uses as a source:

Preventing intrusive memories after trauma via a brief intervention involving Tetris computer game play in the emergency department: a proof

Free Tetris