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Can Gaming Really Help Mental Illness? | S201 | Think Before You Post Podcast
23 minutes Posted Jan 20, 2023 at 4:00 pm.
: Seattle's schools are suing tech giants for harming young people's mental health (https://www.npr.org/2023/01/08/114773...)
: Video games could hold untapped potential in the treatment of mental illness 
: That Dragon, Cancer is a video game created by two parents whose son died of cancer.  The purpose of the game is to help teach people empathy. (https://www.npr.org/2016/01/15/463224...) 
: Gris is a video game that everyone needs. (https://medium.com/@Murkius/gris-is-a...) 
: Video games are engineered to be addictive (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/02/op...) 
: The best thing we saw on the internet this week. (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/painter-...)
: Is this a stupid idea?  
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Jump into our new studio (!) as we discuss the positive and negative effects that playing and/or watching video games may have on mental health.
Show Notes:
 
01:43: Seattle's schools are suing tech giants for harming young people's mental health (https://www.npr.org/2023/01/08/114773...)
 
08:05: Video games could hold untapped potential in the treatment of mental illness 
12:00: That Dragon, Cancer is a video game created by two parents whose son died of cancer.  The purpose of the game is to help teach people empathy. (https://www.npr.org/2016/01/15/463224...) 
13:44: Gris is a video game that everyone needs. (https://medium.com/@Murkius/gris-is-a...) 
15:24: Video games are engineered to be addictive (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/02/op...) 
19:15: The best thing we saw on the internet this week. (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/painter-...)
21:03: Is this a stupid idea?  
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