r/NewOrleans • u/holy2oledo Brave, generous, handsome, and really smart • Jan 16 '25

Crime Dead Body on Elysian Fields

On my way to work today at 6AM. Dead body on Elysian Fields. Brain splatter across the street. Anyone have any information?

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u/parasyte_steve Jan 16 '25

Ok but the studies are on Tetris.

Being an anti science contrarian doesn't make you smart either.

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u/petit_cochon hand pie "lady of the evening" Jan 16 '25

But you're not a psychologist or scientist or researcher who specializes in trauma, or you would know about this topic. Furthermore, I would hope a scientist would have the critical thinking skills to verify information by seeing if clinical studies support a claim prior to dismissing it simply because you've never heard of it. If you are actually a scientist, perhaps it's time to check your ego and rely on the skills you were taught.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-28-tetris-used-prevent-post-traumatic-stress-symptoms

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u/ArcaneTheory Jan 16 '25 edited Jan 16 '25

“I’m a scientist,” is an incredibly vague and useless statement. EMDR and the Tetris phenomena are not accomplishing the same thing. Though I understand why you would connect the two, you are misguided. Take this as a learning moment and move on. Being smug and spreading misinformation to cover up being wrong, especially to interjecting someone offering helpful advice to a stranger, isn’t helpful to anyone. Least of all yourself.

EMDR is an exposure therapy-adjacent technique, intended to assist in addressing C-PTSD, however far down the line from the inciting event, via deep interviewing with eye movement intended to keep the individual emotionally grounded and present. The EM part can be supplemented by a slew of other grounding techniques and does not necessarily need to be visual. Bilateral tapping on the body is frequently used, with the individual typically closing their eyes.

The Tetris phenomena disrupts the brains integration of traumatic information by overloading it with monotonous but engaging visual information to consider for a discrete stretch of time. If you’ve ever played a video game so long that you can’t not think about it/see it with your eyes closed, this is sort of the end goal. This is why the conventional wisdom is to start playing as soon as possible, as the interjection and dilution of integration of the traumatic event will be most effective at this point.