Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood
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Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood
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#2Studies show that patients who played the[se] games responded better to chemotherapy, and had a much better understanding of the treatment process on the whole.
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#3Why does the site want my location to read a blog post?
Ew lol
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#4Why does the site want my location to read a blog post? Ew lol
Yes, kind of stops me from sharing it with people.
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#5Never expected to see a healthcare site recommending WoW raiding!
If you're not careful, a game that addictive and time-consuming is a rapid route to weight gain, back pain, maybe even an unhealthy drinking habit...
(To be fair though, for those who enjoyed the game in it's early years, WoW Classic was really good 'comfort gaming' during the Covid period, but it's certainly added to lockdown weight gain)
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#6Never expected to see a healthcare site recommending WoW raiding! If you're not careful, a game that addictive and time-consuming is a rapid route to weight gain, back pain, maybe even an unhealthy drinking habit... (To be fair though, for those who enjoyed the game in it's early years, WoW Classic was really good 'comfort gaming' during the Covid period, but it's certainly added to lockdown weight gain)
For many truly sick people, including some cancer patients, weight gain is not a bad thing. An old prof of mine, a man dying of pancreatic cancer, once said to me "A whole life of the doctor telling me to exercise more, and suddenly he is worried about me loosing weight too quickly."
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#7I think it would be useful to play a simulation of cancer treatment that includes realistic odds of survival. It's difficult to grok the idea that you have an X% chance of surviving for Y months by just looking at the numbers, or that Z treatment will affect those odds for some cost in extra misery. Simulating the meaning of those odds by gameplay, watching your avatars live and die, suffering more or less, could give you a better gut feeling for your prospects and adjust your decision making accordingly.
My mom fought cancer and died slowly and badly. My dad, having lived through that, didn't fight it and went quickly. Some people have the opposite experience. It would be good to have a less expensive way to learn these lessons.
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#8Never expected to see a healthcare site recommending WoW raiding! If you're not careful, a game that addictive and time-consuming is a rapid route to weight gain, back pain, maybe even an unhealthy drinking habit... (To be fair though, for those who enjoyed the game in it's early years, WoW Classic was really good 'comfort gaming' during the Covid period, but it's certainly added to lockdown weight gain)
Same goes for just hanging out with your friends in the evening without any sports, eh?
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#10Based on the title alone I thought this would be about programmers and ChatGPT