Depression Help - Friendly Computer Game Could Relieve Depression

Posted by Christina Crease

at August 22, 2008

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Maratai resident Theresa Fleming is formulating a computer game that can support those teenagers who are going through mental health problems. Mrs. Fleming is a PhD student at the University of Auckland and got an award of the country’s esteemed Doctoral Scholarship. From the last 10 years, she is working with mentally troubled young people. Her inspiration is her own children who have hobby of making a cyber game for depression online. The sweet mom says, ‘‘If you are unable to beat them, it is better to unite them. No doubt, computer games work in their favor.’’

A member of an Electronic therapy team at the university, Mrs Fleming says the team is working beside a computer game company, Metia Interactive, to construct the program. She further claims that the venture is in its new stage and her scholarship will support fund independent research to make the program. They will discuss teenager health providers and young adults to find out about its correct working.

She says, “In New Zealand, we do not have several therapists who are professional in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).’’ The game is formulated as a fantasy world in which a guide supports computer animated characters on different mission levels while resolving troubles. In the starting, the program will be designed with a test for assuring that a player is ready to carry forward the game.

It is not only a great Internet game for those people who are feeling highly depressed but this game can also eliminate the bad name attached to the Internet. It is a human nature that they do not accept the new technology easily. But this game will certainly leave a positive change in the attitude of the depressed people.

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