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cosmolinguistThanks everyone for the kind comments.
Surprisingly, I slept fine -- well, I was surprised anyway. I don't remember any of my dreams.
I am very amused that two of the smartest people I know (one of whom is a psychotherapist!) told me to play Tetris.
There are studies on this, often in particular groups of people who might acquire PTSD like healthcare workers or combat veterans.
I'm good at games like that and I love them. I have not literal Tetris but a similar simple colorful block-positioning game on my phone, which I play all the time anyway -- usually as something to keep me busy enough to be able to listen to a podcast or sometimes to watch something on TV, or sometimes to tire my eyes out enough to let me go to sleep.
But now I can tell myself it's medicinal!
I had a nice day: walking to and from angelofthenorth's this morning to help unload the van into her flat, enjoying the nice springlike weather for a change, and by the time I was home and showered it was almost time for said psychotherapist and her wife to visit, which is lovely as they are friends I rarely/never get to see, who were just nearby for the afternoon. I made dinner for us -- curry with sauce from a jar and added peppers and leftover chicken the others had last night. We're all pretty floppy, after those two had to take on tasks that were meant to be done yesterday by the two of us who were in Wales so much longer than we planned to be. But in a nice cozy way. No plans at all tomorrow, which I'm very much looking forward to.
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Date: 2026-03-14 10:48 pm (UTC)Sadly the Tetris PTSD theory/claim is over-hyped but the debunking got less virality than the original claim https://www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/tetris-trauma-viral-twitter-thread-master-class-misleading-psych-research/
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Date: 2026-03-14 11:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-03-14 11:59 pm (UTC)