Can computer games improve mental health?
People Fixing the World
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Games have now become a tin part of the treatment she offers. She says gaming allows young people to explore thoughts and feelings that, if they confronted them in real life, would be far too scary. A lot of time it's abstracted so it's not so on the nose that they get lost in their own feelings - but it's abstracting enough where they can experience the story. For kelly, the reason gaming can help is that it allows young people to practice feeling something like that or experiencing something like that.
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