The 3 Good Podcast: Episode 22 Play, games and wellbeing

How does play impact on wellbeing? What about game playing? Moreso in the modern age, what about games consoles and games on apps? Are we all gamers how that we play games on our smartphones? Can games be helpful to mental health recovery? Games can be healthy for people to play, and what happens when they become addictive?

Regular podcast guest, Mark Gilroy, returns to the podcast discussing all these questions with Sukh.

Tetris and cravings article https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666314000828.

Tetris and PTSD article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28348380.

Benefits of action video games http://www.journalofplay.org/sites/www.journalofplay.org/files/pdf-articles/7-1-article-video-games.pdf.

Connectivity and multiplayer games https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0078795.

Supernormal stimuli https://www.the-scientist.com/daily-news/supernormal-stimuli-43491.

You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.

You can connect with Mark on Twitter @themarkgilroy.