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How Games Can Treat Pain and Suffering
The ability to stay motivated and go oriented in the face of frustration if you're trying to learn something new or practise a skill is actually great. The other thing that's really interesting about this is that you're not the only person, the only researcher, beginning to explore the way games can treat emotional and sical pain and suffering. There's some examples you give in the book. There's a game that helps burn patients ignore their pain. They don't ignore their pain, they actually prevent pain. For many of the patients, it was more effective morphine. Well, how can that be?
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