Realm of Mr. Strosso (Champion of the Sun)

I'm not a psychology researcher, but my guess would be that the nature of it being a time-limited puzzle game where you have to juggle multiple factors means that your short-term memory gets filled and the traumatic images are "dumped" in favor of remembering how many times to rotate the L piece. "As soon as possible" is probably because the sooner you do it, the less likely it is to become part of your long-term memory.

This can have an effect hours after the traumatic event happens too! All participants were treated within about 6 hours and played for a total of 20 minutes of Tetris (with at least one play time of 10 minutes straight).

Your skill level is unquestionable but listen.

Homestar Runner changed my life because whenever I get into a panic spiral about the future my brain autoplays this scene and immediately snaps me out of it

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