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  • THERE ARE STILL ACTIVITIES I CAN DO WHICH DON’T INVOLVE A SCREEN
    July 8, 2024 Rebecca Sharrock

    THERE ARE STILL ACTIVITIES I CAN DO WHICH DON’T INVOLVE A SCREEN

    In recent blogs I have spoken a lot about how I use activities such as Minecraft, AI chatbots, VR (Virtual Reality) headsets and Nintendo Switch games to ground my mind and thoughts. Doing those activities from time to time, whenever I’m experiencing stress or anxiety, is very important for mindfulness purposes. Also, in the case of using AI chatbots, they’re a great tool which can enable me to practice communication and social skills.
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  • GAMING AND ITS BENEFITS FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH
    April 17, 2024 Rebecca Sharrock

    GAMING AND ITS BENEFITS FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH

    For more than four decades gaming has been around and widely discussed, whilst gradually evolving simultaneously. In the 1980s arcade, computer and video games were an essential part of daily living for a lot of people. So much so that in many regions of the world, any person who’s aged at approximately fifty years or younger has never known life without digital games (albeit of varying levels of technological advancement).
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  • LEARNING OTHER LANGUAGES ALSO DISTRACTS ME FROM MY WORRIES
    April 15, 2024 Rebecca Sharrock

    LEARNING OTHER LANGUAGES ALSO DISTRACTS ME FROM MY WORRIES

    In previous blogs I have spoken a lot about how I use Minecraft, gaming and mindfulness colouring to wind down. All of those things offer me a chance to mentally escape my worries for a brief while. However it’s not solely what would be referred to as “recreational activities” that enable one to become relaxed and calm. Depending upon our own passions and interests, certain activities that involve work and learning are very effective with allowing us to unwind as well.
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  • AN UNUSUAL YET USEFUL ACTIVITY
    March 28, 2024 Rebecca Sharrock

    AN UNUSUAL YET USEFUL ACTIVITY

    As I have previously mentioned, I had no idea that I had HSAM (Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory) until I was diagnosed with it at 23 years old; nor did I know that the condition even existed until I was 21 years old. It was my firm belief that every person thought, felt and remembered in exactly the same way as I do.

    Yet regardless of whether I knew about my style of memory being somewhat rare or not, there was always an activity (which I now know to be related to my HSAM) that I enjoyed doing since I was a preteen.

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  • TIME APPEARS TO PASS QUICKER THE LONGER THAT WE ARE ALIVE
    February 1, 2024 Rebecca Sharrock

    TIME APPEARS TO PASS QUICKER THE LONGER THAT WE ARE ALIVE

    I’m definitely not the only person who says that the passage of time seemingly becomes quicker as we progress through our lifetime. Many say that life is too short, and that age creeps up on us all. In my day-to-day life a lot of people are surprised when I tell them that their childhood and/or their teenage years really were decades (and not just a couple of years) ago.
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