{"id":12223,"date":"2022-12-27T16:15:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/best-of-2022-how-video-games-can-be-brilliant-for-your-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:15:56","slug":"best-of-2022-how-video-games-can-be-brilliant-for-your-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/27\/best-of-2022-how-video-games-can-be-brilliant-for-your-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Of 2022: How Video Games Can Be Brilliant For Your Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Escapism, education, and being &#8220;alone together&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Over the holidays we&#8217;re republishing some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/best-of-2022\">choice features<\/a> from the last 12 months. A mix of talking points, interviews, opinion pieces and more from<\/em> <em>NL staff and contributors<\/em><em>, you&#8217;ll find our usual blend of thoughtfulness, expertise, frivolity, retro nostalgia, and \u2014 of course \u2014 enthusiasm for all things Nintendo. Happy holidays!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and as part of our mental health coverage, I spoke to two psychologists from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takethis.org\/\">Take This<\/a> \u2014 a non-profit dedicated to reducing the stigma of mental health in the gaming community, as well as raising awareness of the areas in which games and mental health intersect \u2014 about all the <em>good<\/em> things video games can do for your mental health. You&#8217;ve probably heard all the bad ones already!<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/best-of-2022-how-video-games-can-be-brilliant-for-your-mental-health\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Best Of 2022: How Video Games Can Be Brilliant For Your Mental Health<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Escapism, education, and being &#8220;alone together&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Over the holidays we&#8217;re republishing some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/best-of-2022\">choice features<\/a> from the last 12 months. A mix of talking points, interviews, opinion pieces and more from<\/em> <em>NL staff and contributors<\/em><em>, you&#8217;ll find our usual blend of thoughtfulness, expertise, frivolity, retro nostalgia, and \u2014 of course \u2014 enthusiasm for all things Nintendo. Happy holidays!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and as part of our mental health coverage, I spoke to two psychologists from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takethis.org\/\">Take This<\/a> \u2014 a non-profit dedicated to reducing the stigma of mental health in the gaming community, as well as raising awareness of the areas in which games and mental health intersect \u2014 about all the <em>good<\/em> things video games can do for your mental health. You&#8217;ve probably heard all the bad ones already!<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/best-of-2022-how-video-games-can-be-brilliant-for-your-mental-health\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}