‘Chrono Trigger’ and Coping with Pandemic Trauma through Video Games
Coping with the COVID-19 shutdown via a video game, where I have control over the apocalyptic outcome, was what I needed.
Chrono Trigger delivered.
Chrono Trigger
Square
1995
Video games have become a way to both escape and confront the traumatic experience created by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Studies have shown that video games can help players cope with traumatic events. By playing the 1995 video game
Chrono Trigger during lockdown, I meditated on life and vied for agency while facing circumstances byond my control.
Coping with COVID-19 Isolation
On 26 March 2020, I entered lockdown and joined millions of people around the world in social isolation in hopes of stopping the spread of COVID-19. The pandemic and the lockdowns that followed changed many people’s lives. While the pandemic disrupted daily routines across the world; for some, it became a historical demarcation, an apocalypse of sorts. Lif
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Computer training applied in addition to psychotherapy can potentially help reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These are the results found by researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and their collaborating partners in a randomised controlled clinical trial with 80 patients with PTSD. With the computerised training, the patients learned to appraise recurring and distressing trauma symptoms in a less negative light and instead to interpret them as a normal and understandable part of processing the trauma. The results are described by a team headed by Dr. Marcella Woud and Dr. Simon Blackwell from the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, together with the group led by Professor Henrik Kessler from the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the LWL University Hospital Bochum in the journal
Computer training in addition to psychotherapy can potentially reduce PTSD symptoms
Trauma patients experience intrusive and distressing memories of their traumatic event. A team from Bochum is examining new ways to strengthen the effects of psychotherapy.
Computer training applied in addition to psychotherapy can potentially help reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These are the results found by researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and their collaborating partners in a randomized controlled clinical trial with 80 patients with PTSD.
With the computerized training, the patients learned to appraise recurring and distressing trauma symptoms in a less negative light and instead to interpret them as a normal and understandable part of processing the trauma. The results are described by a team headed by Dr. Marcella Woud and Dr. Simon Blackwell from the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, together with the group led by Professor Henrik Ke