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PTSD and gaming
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:27 pm
by wodin
Hello
I forgot to mention in the YouTube video I was in a couple of Vets talk about PTSD and how gaming has helped them.
Link to video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z-09qCZdm ... e=youtu.be
Jason
Re: PTSD and gaming
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 1:27 am
by Rosseau
I tuned in only to see our friend Wodin on TV. What I didn't expect was this "gaming" site coverage kicks off with a good discussion on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the veterans.
Way to go, Jason!
Re: PTSD and gaming
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:49 pm
by wodin
Big thanks mate! Pleased you enjoyed it!
Re: PTSD and gaming
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 5:02 pm
by altipueri
Slightly OT but I read "Regeneration" by Pat Barker a few weeks ago. It covers the slightly fictionalised early PTSD treatment that Dr Rivers gave to the likes of Siegfried Sassoon in WW1.
About a fortnight ago I mentioned this to a psychologist friend who said Rivers became famous for showing that trauma could be caused by things other than what Freud had said; though things have apparently moved on somewhat in the psycho world.
There's a bit here I just found.
https://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/03 ... generation
PS To my surprise I enjoyed the book and would recommend it. Or just read Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon in their own words.
PPS - try Graves's "Lawrence and the Arabs" for a much more enjoyable account of Lawrence of Arabia's exploits than Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Re: PTSD and gaming
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2022 12:19 am
by wodin
The film Regeneration is what really started my WW1 obsession. It had a profound impact on me. Right from the opening sequence.