Could virtual reality gaming help people overcome anxiety?
Science Weekly
The Guardian
4.2 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. This is the Guardian. This summer see the European box office smash that critics are raving about. |
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| 0:31.0 | A few accounts of Monte Cristo. The Count of Monte Cristo, in Cinemas now, Certificate 12A. |
| 0:37.0 | What really gets your heart racing? Opening an exam paper, seeing a spider in the corner of the room, speaking in front of a crowd of people. |
| 0:55.0 | Or is it the everyday stresses of normal life, |
| 0:58.0 | getting out the door on time, being in a busy space, receiving a bill. |
| 1:03.0 | If so, you're certainly not alone. |
| 1:07.0 | According to the Office for National Statistics, |
| 1:10.0 | around one in three British adults surveyed last year reported experiencing high levels of anxiety. |
| 1:17.0 | And even for those who get support, it can be difficult to implement calming techniques in the middle of a busy day or stressful |
| 1:25.8 | situation, but could strapping on a virtual reality headset and turning into a game, Help. |
| 1:35.0 | From the Guardian, I'm Madeline Finley and this is Science Weekly. I'm handed this VR headset and I have a little clip placed on my finger |
| 1:50.5 | that measures my pulse, how fast my heart's beating. And I'm transported into this very |
| 1:55.6 | relaxing environment, which is basically I'm sitting on a boat in a massive lake, and it's sunset, and it's just very beautiful and tranquil. |
| 2:05.6 | That's Mindegedus a science correspondent for the Guardian who bravely went out to |
| 2:11.2 | test a new anxiety treatment in development by researchers at the University of Cambridge. |
| 2:17.0 | This voice is directing me to practice a breathing technique where I kind of breathe in I think for about six seconds, |
| 2:25.1 | hold my breath for seven seconds and then breathe out slowly for eight seconds. |
| 2:30.1 | It's something like that. As I do this and I get more and more into the rhythm of the |
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