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How LEGO Is Being Used to Reduce Stress, Combat Childhood Trauma, and Manage PTSD
- “All the pieces of your life do, or will, fit together, no matter how many are scattered across
- the floor. Much like LEGO bricks”. Those were the words of HG, author at Canary Media who
- interviewed people using one of the world’s most famous toys to heal from trauma or reduce
- stress and anxiety. The root of LEGO’s tremendous, and proven, psychiatric benefits lies in the
- ability to help individuals zone out while playing with them. For overstressed adults or people
- who have suffered from episodes of trauma, the snapping together of the bricks mixed with the
- careful following of precise instructions allows their brain to refocus on something completely
- different.
- HG heard from several trauma victims, including veterans with PTSD, who said that LEGO
- helps them to enter a Zen-like state, and others who said it allows them to revisit feelings from
- their childhood in a safe and expressive manner. “Psychology has begun to recognize that play
- is as important to healing from trauma as processing trauma memories and establishing good-
- enough relationships”, Dr. Jay Watts – Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist, told
- Canary Media. “We’re reawakening an inner child that’s been too scared, too damaged, or too
- paralyzed to move, and freeing them historically helps free us a little in the now”.
- Retired Army Medic Robin Krauth told the Military Times that after receiving a more than
- 1,000-piece LEGO set, she was surprised to find it was helping her calm down substantially. AJ,
- another trauma victim, said that he finds relief in both following the instructions and building for
- fun. “LEGO allows me to switch my mind off and gives me a break. If my brain is too full to think
- I will just follow the instructions of a set. Other times I feel more creative and will just build and
- see what comes from it”.
- Creatively snapping bricks together just to see what happens _____ (allow - simple present)
- people to explore their imagination—something notoriously difficult, and even distressing, for
- trauma victims, but in a safe, controlled, and reward-filled way that can _____ (help – simple
- present) people regain control over what their thoughts are capable of manifesting. LEGO,
- recognizing the potential of their toys for good, _____ (send - present perfect) more than 600
- toy sets that make a magnetic resonance imaging machine (MRI) laboratory, to help ease anxiety
- in children undergoing these scans.
- LEGO has directly targeted adult fans of LEGO before, by releasing sets based on 90s and
- 80s era nostalgia, like sets from the TV show Friends, or even sets for aesthetically-minded
- Millenials like bonsai trees and other decorations. Throughout its history, LEGO has been kept
- afloat during times of poor sales by its adult fans, in part because there’s a kind of “Zen and the
- Art of Bricklaying” that helps combat burnout from adult responsibilities. This is especially true,
- GNN reported, in office workers who often have complex sets of instructions coming from several
- different sources. By contrast, having a single booklet to follow allows type-A personalities or
- over-stressed workers lower down the pecking order to just switch off.
(Available at: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-lego-is-being-used-to-reduce-stress-combat-childhood-trauma-and-manage-ptsd/ – text especially adapted for this test).
About the words in bold in the article, analyze the statements below:
I. “Who” (l. 02) refers to “author at Canary Media” (l. 02).
II. “Their” (l. 07) refers to “bricks” (l. 06).
III. “It” (l. 17) refers to “1,000-piece LEGO set” (l. 17).
Which ones are correct?
A
Only I.
B
Only II.
C
Only III.
D
Only I and III.
E
I, II and III.