Lots of interesting things in the news?

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Not really. Missiles that may not be, Dems of various sorts doing what Dems do... Biden holding a hearing on transparency behind locked doors, Clinton funding jihad to the tune of $150m, Obama paying homage to fallen U.S. troops... overseas. Well, it gives newsies something to chatter about but there is little really happening. I am guessing, from the hush about the lame duck session and attempts to keep those who gained seats from taking there seats as the real news. As usual, the real news is not being reported. Why? Because even now, anything but a surprise hard left putsch in that lame duck session might otherwise be thwarted. Expect it.

I did see something interesting. It seems that playing tetris after a traumatic event can curtail flashbacks. It also seems that playing word type games increases flashback events. I am not an expert. However, I am a gamer and suffer from trauma, profoundly. They are not sure what is up with word games. I can tell you. Playing word games creates an ability to see patterns and connect words to memories much more efficiently than when not playing these games. It means what used to cause flashbacks, such as visual or other stimulus related to the trauma can now be cued by words. And as skills increase, the number of words which could cause an trauma instance becomes larger and much more varied. As for tetris, I can only speculate. It is my guess that, in playing this and games like it, the mind finds a mechanical means of dealing with problems... including trauma. So instead of increasing the incidents of flashbacks, the skills acquired help the mind to deal with areas of the mind and functions of the mind which seize up on specific cues.

I had not considered this before, however, as I read the article, things I have done, games I have played, and my interests came into clear view and mingled with what I read. I would also guess that mechanical or manual work also helps to cut the stimulus for flashbacks (and other problems, including dreams, mood problems, and such). I have found these things useful, but for whatever reason, I am not able to get myself to do those things as much as I would like. I have, instead of the simple fracture of trauma, a compound fracture. It is less easily lent to treatment. The one thing that seems to work is the one thing that is denied. In any case, I did think that was interesting news.

Oh, by the way, when I play word games even now, I do believe it increases incidents of dreaming. I think part of the reason I am a gamer is... because it does help. Like anything that helps, of course, it can be overdone. Living on this side of life, it is difficult to find the fractional parts of healing I need and knowing when enough is enough, when to switch gears, or how to even do that if I see it. It all seems simple enough, and it is. But simple is great unless you cannot actually do it. Oh well.

Ha! My mother called to see if I was stuck in a mountain of snow. Apparently she heard that Salt Lake City got hit and seemingly hard. She thought she would call and gloat. Nope, I suggested, no snow here. Only a skift, and that some time back, and it was gone by noon. She tries and she tries. :P It was good to have her at least try to pick on me though. I do need that too. Nag! Bah!

Well, back to trying to get that game going. The tech suggested I would be sent a password reset, but I received no such thing and none of the links included provided that. I did find the correct email address and tried to work with that but, again, had no luck. So I emailed back and am hoping to get that going before too long. We will see. At least I have someone live working on it, a name if not a face, and I should have that up and working before too long. Hey, it is something. There is little that can be done as winter appears to be rearing for a charge.

Later.