I think about this article a lot and feel pretty good about the amount of Minecraft I played when I had COVID in 2020 in the first wave in NYC.
An excerpt:
Last week a group of researchers from the U.K. and Sweden published a study reporting that playing just 20 minutes of Tetris — in research parlance, a “Tetris-based intervention” — following an automobile accident can help prevent the formation of the painful, intrusive memories that can follow trauma.
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The gamers were found to have 62 percent fewer intrusive memories in the first week after their accident than the control group. What’s more, their bad memories diminished more quickly than in controls.
How Playing Tetris Tames the Trauma of a Car Crash
