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Treating Traumatic Stress with Videogames

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-than-a-stuffed-bunny dept.

garzpacho writes "Doctors at the Virtual Reality Medical Center are using VR video games to treat post-traumatic stress disorder among vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The software behind the treatment incorporates elements from the military training video game Full Spectrum Warrior, and had some input from designers of America's Army. From the article: 'Dr. Dennis Wood takes patients on what some might consider an odd journey. He starts off leading them to a military compound in Fallujah, Iraq. He then guides them through an Iraqi marketplace before they accompany a patrol through Iraqi homes. And if he thinks they're up to it, he may even take them onto a battlefield, in the midst of explosions and aircraft flying overhead.'"

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  1. Re:How times have changed... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I hope these simulated video environments truly help those soldiers who served our country.

    I don't. Those fuckers cost me a lot of money and made the rest of the world hate me all while spouting self-righteous bullshit about how they were "serving" me. Well, I hope those fuckers get "served" with so much post-traumatic stress that they go insane and kill their families and themselves.

  2. Re:How times have changed... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Your an arogant bastard that should be beaten in the middle of the street.

    Ha ha ha. That's funny because it's actually the arrogant fuckers that think they're "serving" me that are getting beaten in the middle of the street (mostly they get blown up by IEDs but occasionally the mobs get them). Usually, I don't much care for the way life works but in this case it's something to feel good about.

    Now, if I can just tell enough of them the truth about themselves to drive them to suicide (PTSD is my friend) then I can even have more reasons to feel good about the way life works. Hopefully all their friends and family will be superstitious religious assholes who think they're burning in hell for the suicides to add a bit to the enjoyment of it all.

  3. The US Govt treats Enlisted men like tampons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Once one gets bloody it gets tossed and replaced with another. You really think they give a fuck about their "mental health"? Why not start with ending the "stop loss" measures and let troops come home when their enlistment ends and not six months later. Add in the fact that the US Govt is using psych sessions for evidence in arresting people and no one is going to say shit. "You ok to be discharged soldier?" "Sir, yes sir."


    Want to stop PTS? Stop ordering people to kill other people. This whole thing sounds like marketing bullshit, not useful treatment.