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Games tackle psychology. How does that make you feel?

First it was fear of heights, then it was smoking addiction. Now Reuters has a short story on a couple of games that are taking on mental problems usually reserved for a trained therapist.

DS Therapy from Tokyo's Dimple Entertainment takes the Brain Training concept to its extremes by giving a daily "measurement on your mental and emotional health" based on a few light-hearted questions. We can only hope the result is more accurate than the psuedo-scientific "Brain Age" given by its inspiration.

Mindhabits Booster, meanwhile, seeks to "reduce stress levels and improve self-confidence" in players by asking them to pick out a smiling face among a sea of frowning ones. Personally, we think seeing a lone happy person outnumbered by a horde of depressed automatons might have the opposite effect, but none of us are psychology professors, so what do we know?

Tags: mental problems, MentalProblems, psychology, therapy

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