Just Me

My dream is to live in a small cottage in a forest with some goats and chickens and a garden behind me, with only a cat or two by my side.

[sweetchampagne]

The real luxuries in life are slow mornings, quiet moments, uninterrupted quality time and being with the people you love

[amargedom]

“You know who’s gonna give you everything? Yourself.”

— Diane Von Fursenberg

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[thisuserhaspassed]

If this pops up while you’re scrolling, I wish you unconditional love and massive success.

[half-a-corpse-half-a-poet]

-Zoë Lianne

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

[metamorphesque]

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[forestofsprites]

i think that sometimes the best thing that you can do is remind yourself that there are beaches. lakes, rivers, and ponds. there are forests. little woods and meadows. there are canyons. gullies and mountain cliffs. there are rainy days. dry spells and scorching blue skies. that the world turns. changes as much as it repeats. that feeling slow today won't stop tomorrow's high tide. won't make july's blackberries any less ripe

[pennylessproud]

[feelthemonster]

[psychoticallytrans]

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.

[cryptic-ink]

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 has been proposed as a preventive intervention to reduce intrusive memories of a traumatic event. However, no neuroimaging study has

A single dose psychological intervention, which includes using the computer game Tetris, can prevent the unpleasant, intrusive memories that

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

After psychological trauma, recurrent intrusive visual memories may be distressing and disruptive. Preventive interventions post trauma are

[death-threat-collector]

Trauma tetris! Line up the traumas into a row to blow them up!

[the-haiku-bot]

Trauma tetris! Line

up the traumas into a

row to blow them up!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[lylylylylylylylyly]

[sweatermuppet]

this is going to be difficult -> i am capable of doing difficult things -> i have done everything prior to this moment -> this difficulty will soon be proof of capability

[studyblr]

this difficulty will soon be proof of capability.

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[catvaldemar]

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[sometiktoksarevalid]

[memeuplift]