The Disappearance Will Be Steered

Don't worry your lives or minds in place,
the disappearance of a race,
just takes the time to plan the day,
the wake of storm the ride to sigh.

All that was has been a trace,
to the measure of what's in state,
the keep of wealth is all until,
the words due stop and end the frill.

A walk to drive a car away,
to pack-up nothing and leave this still,
the path is coming,
I feel it, bumpy.

the drift is clue I've been so shrewd,
in past I've gone and come to do,
the remarkable part in truth of rite
now my want is to forego this tract.

Destruction of a start to finish,
to recognize that this is mention,
to speak of what will talk a quit,
this life is found and all is 'round.

the grace of this is free to go,
the words that flow are in a row,
the rhyme so lost it's been the cost,
a World is big and I know a rig.

To classify this exist,
with further learning I won't resist,
but silence will come with posts of done,
as a close becomes the stunned.

the man I say is Knight of Play,
I hope for you to do or chose,
this second of the first does stop,
the load of shown and hurts to prop.

To whom it may concern or not,
the message given is just a lend,
a booked review of lives in Time,
will be dismissed as out the pine.

I'd wish you luck but it's your rough,
the guide to brought is merely mocked,
the left of over does review,
it's been so nice to know the dude.

Too hear the footsteps of Mountains peek,
I will find the need for no relief,
the patient climb was my sign,
that Peace is when I just give,
send.

The letter written,
the more of less,
the point is made,
so Bluntly played,
to ignite the spark in fire, lark,
this Elemental is all burnt out.

I Have Always Loved Tetris And Now It Shows...

Tetris May Treat PTSD, Flashbacks

Robin Nixon, LiveScience Contributor   |   April 25, 2012 12:46pm ET

LONDON — A seemingly trivial task – playing a particular video game– may lessen flashbacks and other psychological symptoms following a traumatic event, according to research presented here at the British Psychology Society Annual Conference.

Researchers are now corroborating what some trauma sufferers have happened upon by chance: Focusing on a highly engaging visual-spatial task, such as playing video games, may significantly reduce the occurrence of flashbacks, the mental images concerning the trauma that intrude on the sufferer afterward.

Flashbacks are considered by some to be the central hub of symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), researchers Lalitha Iyadurai and Ella James of Oxford University explained to LiveScience. They are invasive, unpredictable distress signals that can make everyday activities difficult. The jarring mental images also may trigger or exacerbate other symptoms associated with PTSD, including irritability, anger, poor concentration and sleep disorders.

Reducing the occurrence of flashbacks is therefore likely to relieve post-traumatic suffering while leaving the actual memories of the trauma in place, they said.

Iyadurai stressed the new research does not suggest a video gamecan instantly cure PTSD, but that it does suggests alternative treatments for the symptoms.

Innovative treatments

To test their idea, researchers asked subjects to view a disturbing film — an admittedly poor but sufficient simulation of real trauma. Within six hours of viewing this film, the period during which memories are thought to be consolidated for long-term storage, test subjects were randomly assigned to one of three tasks: answering trivia; playing Tetris, a 1980s video game that involves optimizing visual-spatial cues; or engaging in nothing in particular.

Over the following week, subjects who had played Tetris reported experiencing significantly fewer flashbacks of the film than the others did. (For reasons that are unclear, those who answered trivia actually had the most flashbacks.) The finding supported previous research onTetris therapy.

When played immediately following exposure to trauma, "the Tetris game had a protective effect," lead researcher Emily Holmes, a professor at Oxford, said. She and colleagues hypothesize that the visual-spatial demands of Tetris disrupt the formation of the mental imagery involved in flashbacks.

Follow-up work by James and colleagues is exploring whether Tetris may help trauma sufferers even after the memory has been sealed into long-term storage. In this work, the researchers are asking subjects to recall the traumatic film a day after viewing it, stimulating a process called "memory reconsolidation," during which the memory is re-formed in the brain. Subjects are then asked to play Tetris during the reconsolidation period and to count the number of flashbacks they experience in the following week.

The results of this research could prove critical to therapy conducted long after a trauma has been experienced.

Video games as therapists?

It may seem trivializing to suggest that something like playing a video game could have a long-term impact on PTSD and other serious psychiatric disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder that involve unwanted mental images. And researchers are unsure of the mechanisms involved and do not know if their preliminary results would transfer to humans in real-life scenarios.

But Holmes pointed to another trivial act that is now considered an unmatched lifesaver.

"Hand washing was once laughed at, too," she said during her presentation, referring to common habits that existed pre-germ theory. Since doctors started washing their hands before surgery and, more generally, since people have started washing their hands after using the toilet, stopping the spread of pathogens, countless lives have been saved worldwide. 

In other words, it is possible that simple visual-spatial exercises, as exemplified by Tetris, could have a significant impact on some psychological disorders and that someday, when the mechanism is known, the current research will be recognized in hindsight as obvious.

As for whether we should, today, be equipping soldiers with Tetris games to play immediately after battle, Holmes told LiveScience, "Not until we do clinical trials first."

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I Forgot I Wrote To.....Dear Past, You Cannot Stop The Unstoppable!!

Dear Past,

Confront Me!  

Destroy my present Life.  

Leave me quietly at day light, 

return to remind me at sundown.

Don't bother others with questions.

Keep it real with flashbacks.

Exhaust me from sleepless nights.

Make my dreams, Nightmares.

Do you miss me when I forget you?

Are you lonely with just the old friends you have?

Is your pain to singular when I am gone?

Don't you love the silence?

Bring it all.

Don't leave one memory behind.

Invite comments and judgments from past offenders,

to be the audio, to the video that runs in my head.

Tell immediate family to dump it all on me.

Isn't that the job?

You told me so.

Forgetting nothing is important.

Making the flashback live it is so useful.

Thanks.

It irons it all out so well, so vividly for me.

Do I call the men I see?

How about the women?

Are the orgy's still in your repertoire?

Just curious how much further we must go down the lane before we say Adios,

to the other.

I know the ugliness you must have to live with,

when will you give it up?

I mean, really, get real past,

I'm tired, your tired,

you are a worn out record.

Oh, I am so sorry.

I had no idea.

Keep me close,

I will speak on your behalf,

yes, until the end.  I swear.

Love Always,

The friend you will never need,

Me

(originally written in 2011)