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[–] 26 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Wow:

After just one month, researchers found a stark reduction in intrusive memories, commonly known as flashbacks, for those using the Tetris-based treatment – ten times fewer than either control group. It remained highly effective after six months, with 70% of participants who received it reporting no intrusive memories at all, even alleviating other PTSD symptoms.

That's a crazy positive result. Hopefully there is more research into this treatment. My wife still has PTSD and other early childhood trauma related issues that are being treated with NMDR, which is definitely effective, but it sounds like this could potentially accentuate that treatment for a more positive outcome.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Have you ever heard of EMDR therapy? This really reminds me of this. It's a newer therapy that is geared towards trauma. They do this weird thing where they have the participants move their eyes back and forth while thinking of their trauma. People seem to be torn on whether or not the eye movements themselves help or if it's just the nature of performing an action while doing so. Kind of sounds like a similar concept to me.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    It's too good, and its funded by a corporation, and its got a very low sample size, and it's tied in with some wacky "digital therapy solution". I wouldn't be surprised if the control groups actually worsened because the service just sucked and the tetris version included less of that service.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I'll copy my reply from below as well:

    how would it possibly be bad in factors other than efficacy, like BetterHelp was due to data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism? this isn't even online

    99 is a more than enough sample size as this RCT's Bayes factor is 114 and 15.8 for better efficacy than -control and -regular treatment respectively, which corresponds to "extreme" and "strong evidence" (Lee and Wagenmakers 2013, p. 105; adjusted from Jeffreys, 1961). The Lancet also peer-reviewed the claim "The Bayesian adaptive trial design enabled efficient evaluation with early stopping when convincing evidence was reached (n=99).[2]"

    indeed further testing is needed to establish subgroup effects and improve generalizability but this is already quite promising

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Fuck off, dude, you expect me to treat you seriously when you defend a company that commodified mental illness?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    i have never supported or defended BetterHelp

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    You said the only bad thing about it was low efficacy. Fuck you.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    that was the opposite of what i meant; sorry i was unclear. when I said "how would it possibly be bad in factors other than efficacy, like BetterHelp was due to data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism" i meant that BetterHelp had many reasons it was bad other than efficacy like data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism, and asked how the tetris treatment would replicate BetterHelp's notorious woes

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