Dr. Anthony Bean
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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And that helps kind of like re-regulate them or kind of help them process something because they can utilize the different tropes found within the context of the anime, the storyline and things like that to just understand what they're experiencing. So, I mean, for everyone, it's going to be a little bit different, in my opinion. Did you do any harm? No.
You went to what's normal for you as a person. And I think the video game industry is only going to increase significantly. Every year, it just continues to massively increase.
Well, that's because movies have lost their ability to be unique. They're just rehashing everything. Gosh, ain't that the truth. It's terrible. But I think that with that, games are so immersive and they're so impactful in our world. There are new mythologies, what I like to say. If you as a person play this game, that mythology means something to you.
And that mythology is what we want to be talking about. Because whether you're conscious of it or unconscious of it, that's the piece that's grabbing you. And that piece is important. It's not something to just be like, oh, yeah, you're just playing video games. Yeah, you're not doing anything with your life. Oh, you're friends online. They don't really matter or anything like that.
Those are real relationships. Those are people that you have something with, a connection. Those things shouldn't be overlooked.
If I was in my office at home, you would see my Zelda sword.
I'm just trying to get my Halilian shield. That's one thing at conventions I'm always searching for, a metal one.
Oh, there they are.
Yeah, absolutely. So what you did right there is pretty much what we do in therapy is we go in and hone in on what those things are. So Captain America, like, I could do this all day type scenario. You can. You can do it all day. That's not something to shy away from. It's something that takes courage.
Captain America, throughout the movies, comics, and everything else that we've done, you can see such a wonderful trajectory where he never left his morals behind. in a sense.
Yeah, and that's what we would focus in on and be like, all right, so morally, we can succumb, right, to what's happening right here, or we can use it as an opportunity to move forward. When we're faced with a crossroad in everything, it's like Robert Frost's Two Roads, Path Not Taken. We're very used to doing something that we're normally accustomed to.
And that's what leads to, say, that anxiety, that depression, that feeling of like, ah, something's up and I don't know what's going on. That's the road, the path that we've always taken. The question is, what does that other path look like? How do we go down this other path that doesn't resemble that? this familiarness that happens.
What you did right there with the reframing is you chose to be like, yes, I can see these both paths. Yes, I know what this one looks like, but I want to try this one. I want to see what happens down in this area. Then you took it and you worked your way through it. You used it as Captain America as a model, as a guiding leader in that walking down that path. We're talking a metaphorical type
type scenarios like reading things like that he was he was your guide stone he was your your person in there to to even potentially go get your soul stone in a sense um for for that one love it love it speaking my language so what do you uh what do you say you know i find myself very fortunate to have been able to navigate that more or less of myself and i you know i've i've had lots and lots of
The simple question that we usually ask is, what do you do for fun? What is the thing that you use for? Some people would say a distraction. Some people would say escapism. To me, those are not necessarily just negative connotations. Those are ways that we have learned to cope. And coping skills are very helpful for any mental health problem that are out there.
It becomes a problem when that's the only way that you choose to cope. Because we should have in our toolbox, our personal toolbox for anything that's happening, we should have multiple ways to work with a situation. If one doesn't work, we try to work on the next one. And if that doesn't work, we go to the next part in our toolbox that does work in that area.
So for people, it's what do you do for fun? How have you used that to understand yourself? How do you use that to better understand what your problem is? And then let's have that conversation around it. It's a lot of... metaphorical narrative thinking in a lot of ways of
How is this scenario, this object, this thing that we're talking about help you address those concerns that you've had in those past? And how can it help right now? Let's bring this to awareness. So we're not just going home and just playing mindless video games. It's like, no, do it in a mindful capacity to understand why this matters to you and how we can utilize that.
With adolescents, it's a little bit harder to do that. Adults, it's easier.
So actually, with all the school shootings and stuff along those lines, if you go and look at them, these are all public knowledge, so anyone can go in and research them. If you go and look at what was going on with them, what video games they played, because it's all in the reports, it's actually not shooters or anything like that, that are negative or aggressive gaming.
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